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RFC arm: add full relocation / cache support

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Cover letter [U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH 00/19] arm: add full relocation / cache support

Hello Matthias,

Matthias Wei?er wrote:
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I did that but the board still failed to boot and crashed at the first call to memset. So I had a "nice" debug session single stepping through the code with a lss file in parallel.

The reason it crashed so early was my setup of CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR which I set to the *beginning* of some 32k internal SRAM. And as the stack grows downwards it crashed right at the first push instruction.

Argh, you are right, overlooked this too :-(

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So, I now have a running system with your patches and greatly improved uncompressing times of my boot images. We are now able to use compressed

Great!

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images which was not possible due to boot time restrictions in older versions. So it would be great if this stuff could go mainline.

I hope so ;-) So, could you send a patch for this board, based on my RFC patches? I pick them up at first, and it will then go in mainline when it is time for this step ...

(And it would be nice if you could send some testsresults, how "faster" let your boot time ;-)

bye
Heiko

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