[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/7] am335x_evm: Add support to boot from NOR.

Tom Rini
2013-07-11T16:17:33Z

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 06:14:11PM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:08:59 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
> <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:54:09 -0400, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The new in the patch
> > > board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds needed to be re-synced with
> > > arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds again.
> >
> > Actually, I wonder why so many ARM .lds files need to exist at all,
> > when arch/arm/cpu/u-boot[-spl].lds could be used most of the time. I
> > suspect that the main reason for custom .lds files is ad hoc MEMORY
> > declarations, which could easily be commonalized through adequate
> > preprocessing.
>
> ... well here the only difference with arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds is the
> addition of board/ti/am335x/libam335x.o right after start.o but this
> should probably also be manageable in arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds.

Right. And this is a hard requirement (rather than "lets try and
optimize around flash sectors for least waste) for NOR to work.

--
Tom
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