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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] am335x_evm: Add support to boot from NOR.
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 17:42:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51900CBE.7050009@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvxrvq5l.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk>

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On 05/12/2013 05:34 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> writes:
> 
> Tom> From: Steve Kipisz <s-kipisz2@ti.com> Tom> NOR requires that 
> s_init be within the first 4KiB of the image so that Tom> we can 
> perform the rest of the required pinmuxing to talk with the rest 
> Tom> of NOR that we are found on.  When NOR_BOOT is set we save our
> Tom> environment in NOR at 512KiB and a redundant copy at 768KiB.
> 
> Why not use SPL when booting from NOR as well? You still want to 
> relocate into DDR.

Frankly, I'm allergic to SPL for NOR.  It's the historical and well
understood case, we're r/o until we move from flash to DDR.  And it is
fast enough here at least that it doesn't seem like we'd gain on
falcon mode like we do on other medium.

- -- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-12 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-08 22:45 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] am335x_evm: Drop useless CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE Tom Rini
2013-05-08 22:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] am335x_evm: Add MTDPARTS info for SPI flash Tom Rini
2013-05-12 21:10   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-13 12:24     ` Tom Rini
2013-05-13 16:10       ` Tom Rini
2013-05-08 22:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] am335x_evm: Only set CONFIG_NAND when !CONFIG_SPI_BOOT Tom Rini
2013-05-12 21:08   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-13 12:21     ` Tom Rini
2013-05-08 22:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] am335x_evm: Rework board_is_foo() checks Tom Rini
2013-05-08 22:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] am335x_evm:Add support for the NOR module on the memory cape Tom Rini
2013-05-12 21:19   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-13 13:31     ` Tom Rini
2013-05-08 22:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] am335x_evm: Add support to boot from NOR Tom Rini
2013-05-12 21:34   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-12 21:42     ` Tom Rini [this message]
2013-05-12 21:53       ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-05-13 13:35         ` Tom Rini
2013-05-12 20:54 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] am335x_evm: Drop useless CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE Peter Korsgaard

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