[U-Boot-Users] M-Systems Disk on Chip and U-boot

We're looking at using a DoC on our next product and I was wondering how the drivers (obviously supplied by M-Systems) are merged into U-Boot code?

One of the newer P3 chips has an IPL section which is "execute in place" and would contain early initialization code for the cpu/board/SDRAM and then copy the body of the code into SDRAM. This idea sounds good for cost reasons (one device) but seems like an ugly hack to the structure of U-Boot. Any comments?

Regards, Herb