On 24 Jun 2013, at 1:22 AM, Bo Shen wrote:

> Hi Larry Baker,
> 
> On 6/24/2013 16:02, Larry Baker wrote:
>> I have found why the latest U-Boot does not work on my Glomation GESBC-9G20 
>> board.  Two causes: a bad code text segment address (prevents U-Boot from 
>> executing) and bad flash partition offsets (prevents U-Boot from reading its 
>> environment variables).  The latter I assume is common, as the flash 
>> partition layout can vary.  The former has to do with where the primary boot 
>> loader expects to find U-Boot's entry point.  The primary boot loader comes 
>> from Atmel, I believe, and I assume does not change.  Yet, the 2011.06 
>> release of U-Boot changed that address.  (FYI: the two immediately preceding 
>> releases, 2010.12 and 2011.03, fail to compile with configuration errors.  
>> There were definitely changes taking place during that time with the Atmel 
>> AT91SAM U-Boot code.)  That may be a bug.  I don't know who the authority on 
>> that question would be.  If it is decided the U-Boot code text segment 
>> address is incorrect, it wold be nice to fix that in the upcoming release.  
>> (If there is time.)
> 
> For the text base, why we use 0x21f00000 instead of 0x23f00000 is that, the 
> memory only 64MiB on at91sam9g20ek board, if use 0x23f00000 as the text base, 
> there is only 1MiB reserved for u-boot use. So, we move down to let more 
> space for u-boot.
> 
> For the NAND partition, as to the u-boot grow bigger and bigger, so we 
> reserve more space for it.
> 
> BTW, when you upgrade the u-boot, please also upgrade the bootstrap. we 
> always keep the update bootstrap work with mainline u-boot properly.
> 

Will AT91loader be updated when U-Boot 2013.07 is released?  If not, I will put 
the current AT91loader on my board with U-Boot 2013.04 now.

> Best Regards,
> Bo Shen
> 


Thank you,

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
ba...@usgs.gov



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