From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx•de>
To: morten.banzon@axxessit•no
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: MPC82xx -- DPRAM1
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:38:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041118173902.86E09C1430@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:49:59 +0100." <OFD0B78DE0.9222EE0F-ONC1256F50.003811B2-C1256F50.003B80FF@axxessit.no>
In message <OFD0B78DE0.9222EE0F-ONC1256F50.003811B2-C1256F50.003B80FF@axxessit•no> you wrote:
>
> I do not understand all the intricacies of what happens regarding hardware
> configuration during the eraly stages of booting linux, but I conclude
> that when making a uImage one have to modify u-boot and the kernel if one
> want to relocate the usage of dpram1 by the cpm uart driver. This might
> have been obvious to most of you, but I was lost on this issue.
There is no need to modify U-Boot nor the kernel. Each driver is
supposed to perform all required initialization steps itself. It must
not make any assumptions about it's previous state except that it's
"harmless", i. e. interrupts are disabled etc. when the driver is
starting.
> A mystery is why Dan Malek said it was a "very bad idea" to relocate the
> smc buffer descriptors to anohter part of dpram1.
> Maybe I will understand that one day too.
Read the code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 10:49 MPC82xx -- DPRAM1 morten.banzon
2004-11-18 17:38 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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2004-11-19 14:25 Rune Torgersen
2004-11-22 19:54 ` Dan Malek
2004-11-19 2:24 morten.banzon
2004-11-18 20:08 morten.banzon
2004-11-18 23:11 ` Dan Malek
2004-11-17 16:22 morten.banzon
2004-11-17 12:11 morten.banzon
2004-11-16 15:07 morten.banzon
2004-11-16 14:58 Rune Torgersen
2004-11-16 11:16 morten.banzon
2004-11-16 11:02 morten.banzon
2004-11-15 16:10 morten.banzon
2004-11-16 0:18 ` Dan Malek
2004-11-16 8:51 ` Conor McLoughlin
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