In message 1defaf580611140302h3d2717f2o8ad840390d64c897@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Actually, the avr32/atstk1000 port does run directly from flash. It sets up different VMA and LMA addresses for the writable sections in the linker scripts and copies the data section from flash to RAM in the early startup code.
Flash programming is handled by putting certain functions into a .flashprog section which is loaded into the icache and locked.
As for the usefulness of it....well, I'm quite frankly not sure. It
Arghhhhh.... you really don't want to do that. At least I don't want you to do that.
May I please ask you to change the AVR code such that it works the same way as U-Boot works on all other architectures?
I don't want to have such a divergence in design philosophy. I apologize that I did not notice this earlier (so I could have rejected this code right from the beginning).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk