Re: [U-Boot] arch/powerpc/lib/board.c:get_effective_memsize() for 4GB+ systems

21 Sep 2012


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-----Original Message-----
From: Timur Tabi [mailto:timur@freescale.com] 
Sent: den 21 september 2012 15:30
To: Robert Thorhuus
Cc: 'Kumar Gala'; u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] 
arch/powerpc/lib/board.c:get_effective_memsize() for 4GB+ systems
Robert Thorhuus wrote:
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Still I wonder why the choice was made to have U-Boot
relocate in high
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memory rather than low memory and also not making it easy
to configure
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the relocation.
U-Boot relocates in high memory so that you can load your 
operating system at address 0.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
Ok.
BR
Robert