Re: Linux on MPC5200 - LITE5200EVAL & New bestcomm code ?

In message [ref] you wrote:

and it works just fine ... Apparently when the kernel was too big, the
area near 100000 is probably used by u-boot in some way, maybe during

Well, it is not used by U-Boot itself, but when you have a big  Linux
kernel it starts overwriting itself when you uncompress it to address
0.

software issue. Maybe u-boot should give some warning about that ( if
it's the cause, not yet sure ). But that's off topic here.

U-Boot does not know the uncompressed size in advance. And  anyway  -
it's  a  pilot  error  :-)  In modification of anmother famous quote:
"U-Boot was not designed  to  stop  you  from  doing  stupid  things,
because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

Now, I'm just looking forward for new BestComm code, to get AC97 and IDE
DMA running ( quite slow and CPU intensive right now ... ).

:-(

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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