[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] am335x_evm: Add support to boot from NOR.

Tom Rini
2013-05-12T21:42:22Z

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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.

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Tom
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