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. Is having a config option to specify the location of bss (like CONFIG_SYS_BSS_ADDR) better/acceptable? Regards, Vaibhav _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
