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From: Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:47:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D495966.4010009@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110201100312.241C1B187@gemini.denx.de>

Hello Wolfgang, Albert,

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 03:33 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aneesh V,
>
> In message<4D47C1C9.1020002@ti.com>  you wrote:
>>
>>> Why would that be necessary?  Just put the BSS segment in SDRAM, and
>>> everything is fine, isn't it?
>>
>> SDRAM is initialized by the SPL. So, bss can not be initialized and
>> used until SDRAM initialization is complete. I would prefer to have
>
> Yes, this is normal.
>
>> rest of the bss in internal RAM so that it's available as soon as we
>> enter C code.
>
> Well, you probably have to decide if you want an easy solution with
> the restictions of the internal RAM size, or a somewhat more complex
> solution with much more powerful resources.

I tried putting bss in SDRAM and it works for me. I just had to put a
couple of variables explicitly in .data section. However, there is one
minor issue that I would like to report.

Making .bss disjoint from the rest of the image may break the
relocation code in start.S. Currently the assumption is that
'__bss_start' indicates the end of .data and hence the image.
That will not be the case when .text and .data are in IRAM and .bss in
SDRAM. I am not affected because our SPL doesn't need relocation.

Best regards,
Aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01  5:23 [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues Aneesh V
2011-02-01  6:52 ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01  7:58   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:26   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  8:35     ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:05       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:18         ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:48           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01 12:43             ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 13:27               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:53     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 21:16     ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-02-11 22:15       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-13 21:40         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-09-28 20:28           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-12  6:13       ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  7:04 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01  7:11   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01  8:00     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:27     ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  7:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:18   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  8:48     ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:03     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-02 13:17       ` Aneesh V [this message]
2011-02-02 13:37         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-02 14:01           ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 15:14             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-03 10:38               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-05  6:58                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  6:28                   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11  6:39                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  6:57                       ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11  8:15                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  8:27                           ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 21:01             ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03  7:01               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-03 10:05                 ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03  6:49             ` sughosh ganu
2011-02-03  7:22               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-15  8:44 ` Mike Frysinger

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