On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:08:21 -0400 "Matthew L. Creech" <mlcre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:12 -0400 > > Mike Hench <mhe...@elutions.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> Any boot ideas ? > >> Will the FCM load 2k and run it? > > > > The 4K boot region will have to be split over pages 0 and 2 (2k view) or > > the first half of pages 0 and 1 (4k view). > > > > (Redirecting to the U-Boot list) > > Hi Scott, > > Does this kind of page-splitting only apply to the IPL and nothing > else? Yes, because that's loaded directly by the hardware which doesn't implement this workaround. > If so, it seems that if: > > 1. modifications are made to U-Boot's fsl_elbc_nand driver similar to > Liu Shuo's kernel mods, and > 2. an option is added to generate u-boot-nand.bin with its IPL split > into two 2k chunks > > then we can boot and run entirely from a 4k page device on MPC 83xx, correct? That's the plan, though I don't know whether it's been tried yet. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
