20 Jan
2006
20 Jan
'06
8:56 a.m.
In message OF5CAC867F.44E1474B-ON482570FC.00153F84@uk.marconicomms.com you wrote:
What happens is that the size of u-boot loaded into the flash of myboard occupies more than one sector of the flash and CFG_ENV_ADDR is located at the second sector of the flash imimediately following u-boot with the flash sector size of 0x40000:
Than your configuration is broken and must be fixed. This is not an U-Boot problem.
In fact CFG_ENV_ADDR is statically defined in all of the config files
Yes, and this is intentional - the purpose is to be able to find out if the environment is embedde dor not etc. at compile time )instead of generating code which just adds to the memory footprint).
in ./include/configs/*. I wonder if it is possible to use an external _end symbol as the start address for environmental flash section. But then, when
No, this is not intended.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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