Oh, found the Memory Management section, thanks! And it also explains that
stuff should be written after 0x0000 2000 because of the exception vector -
actually, I thinks this is a bit bigger here in my system, but now makes
sense why I was also getting crashes at the beginning of the memory!
Érico V. Porto
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9rico_Porto?=,
>
> Please stop top posting / full quoting.
>
> In message <CAG1KTJebU-QhhH2=
> ibfojsjjvaynh4hrfuzobnwz20uzq-5...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Ok, this makes sense, but I think you mean:
>
> No, I mean what I mean, not what you think I mean.
>
> > memory start at 0x00000000
> >
> > mtest {
> > start address: right after (malloc area+global data + stack)
> > end address: relocaddr
> > }
> >
> > memory end at 0x08000000
>
> Wrong.
>
> Assuming you have a simple configuration (no pRAM, no log buffer, no
> video buffer etc.) then the memory map (as explained in the README,
> btw) is like that:
>
> top of RAM (in your case 0x08000000 - 1)
> ... U-Boot code, data and bss
> relocaddr
> ... Malloc Arena
> ... Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
> ... Stack (growing downward)
>
>
> Depending on the size of your malloc arena you need to stay far enough
> away from relocaddr; try with 1 MB or more.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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