[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot and Nand Flash

Wolfgang Denk
2004-09-23T15:05:27Z

In message <200409230855.06826.maillist@fsforth.de> you wrote:
>
> > U-Boot will NOT fit into a 16 kB block. And U-Boot cannot be made to
> > boot directly from such a block. You will need to implement a
> > different loader.
>
> Sorry to disagree. Of course U-Boot at whole will not fit into a NAND block.
> But you can place all the assembler initialization stuff including NAND
> relocation into the first block. The relocation code then reads the remaining
> NAND sectors and appends it to the one already read by the CPU. For the
> S3C2410 I did post a patch half a year ago.

What you describe is exactly such a different bootstap loader.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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