Hello Sughosh, On Thursday 03 February 2011 12:19 PM, sughosh ganu wrote: > hi Aneesh, > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Aneesh V <ane...@ti.com > <mailto:ane...@ti.com>> wrote: > > Yes. These are variables that otherwise would go to BSS. I do this > because I need them before SDRAM initialization. One of this is the gd > structure. I allocate gd structure in .data that is in IRAM. > Why I need gd before SDRAM? Because I try to initialize serial console > as early as possible and this code has some reference to gd. > > > I had added serial console support in my nand_spl code for the hawkboard > port(referring existing FSL boards). I think the serial console can be > initialised using NS16550_init, which does not access any gd variable. > This is assuming that you can use the ns16550 serial driver :)
Thanks for the input. Yes, we are using ns16550 driver. However, I would still need gd because it is getting used in other places like the mmc driver that I have to use in the SPL. Best regards, Aneesh _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
