RE: [PATCH v3 4/5] ARM: vexpress: Initial RS1 memory map support

Dave Martin wrote at Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:14 AM:

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:10:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:

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Oh, dear.  Any pointers to the discussions on the u-boot side?

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Certainly.  Many different threads actually.  Here's a few:

OK, thanks - I see Stephen just followed up and Wolfgang seems
moderately happy so hopefully there will be some progress.  It also
occurs to me that there's at least Qi also using uImages, hopefully
other bootloaders are going to be easier to deal with (or already cope).

If Stephen's patches are heading for merge, that's great.

If this feature remains blocked though, could we support Wolfgang's
preference for start-of-RAM-relative load and entry address?

It looks like my change is progressing to being checked in:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-December/111865.html

As background though, I don't think an "SDRAM-relative" approach would
be any more or less likely to get checked in; the size of the patch
would end up being just the same as my final "don't copy the kernel to
any load address" patch. Incidentally, the very first patch I posted
was for an "SDRAM-relative" load address, although it ended up being
far more complex than my final patch due to the way I implemented it;
a rewrite would come out much smaller.

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