Hi Vaibhav, On Tuesday 01 February 2011 12:22 PM, Bedia, Vaibhav wrote: > Hi Aneesh, > > On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:54 AM, Aneesh V wrote: >> Dear Wolfgang, >> >> I had been working on creating an MMC SPL for OMAP4. OMAP boards >> typically support booting from the FAT partition of a removable >> SD/MMC card. So, we need to have FAT support in the SPL. But I am >> having some difficulties in adding FAT support to SPL. >> >> BSS footprint of fat.c is very high. It has three buffers each of >> size 64KB. To workaround this problem I have done something like >> below(The way x-loader works around this problem today). >> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_FAT_BUFFER_BASE is in SDRAM.Is this ok? >> > [...] > > I guess you will hit a similar issue with the networking related code is used > (I am not sure if SPL uses it). That also requires a decent size of bss.
Luckily we don't need networking related code in SPL. > > Is having a config option to specify the location of bss (like > CONFIG_SYS_BSS_ADDR) better/acceptable? I would prefer to have rest of the BSS in internal RAM itself. best regards, Aneesh _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
