In message 406A31B117F2734987636D6CCC93EE3CB05891@ehost011-3.exch011.intermedia.net you wrote:
[Leonid] The answer in DULG FAQ chapter you are referring to doesn't say th at such practice is bad, it simply states that u-boot doesn't support such an option. That could be truth in the time of DULG FAQ writing but now there
No, it does not say that U-Boot doesn't support this, it sais that this is difficult, unsupported, and fraught with peril.
And "unsupported" means that: you might not get any support doing this.
are many platforms, naturally using 3-stage booting. For example, ATMEL ARM boards have small boot program which fetches u-boot from flash, loads it
And in which way is this a 3-stage procedure? I see only two stages. Also, in some cases this is absolutely not "naturally".
to RAM and then starts. I would like to hear why do you think it's so bad, but in any case this way u-boot is normally used for such boards (at91rm9200-ek for instance).
This has been discussed in lenght before. See the archives.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk