From: John Otken <jotken@softadvances•com>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx•de>
Cc: Leonid <Leonid@a-k-a•net>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: uboot environment variables size for Yosemite board.
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:02:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BB6E49.3030505@softadvances.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060717070018.21ED1353C61@atlas.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <FAB00A8DC59FAB42B13C2B3B0F6877010D14478B@ehost011-3•exch011.intermedia.net> you wrote:
>> I'm using uboot-1.1.4 for AMCC PPC440E Yosemite board. I've downloaded
>
> Note that this is off topic here. You should have posted this on the
> U-Boot-Users mailing list instead.
>
>> this uboot from DENX site. It uses EEPROM to store environment
>> variables. Since EEPROM on Yosemite board is only 512 bytes, there can
>> not be more environment variables which is not very convenient.
>
> Thisi s wrong. The Yosemite configuration uses (like most (all?) AMCC
> eval boards - two redundand flash sectors to store the environment.
> And available environment size is 8 kB:
He has an older Yosemite. The original Yosemite U-Boot used the EEPROM
for environment variables.
> => print
> ...
> Environment size: 1355/8187 bytes
>
>> There is theoretical possibility to save these variables on flash (64M
>> from which I use only part) and yosemite.h header file even has defines,
>> allowing this option. But is it going work in reality? What is simplest
>> way for Yosemite board to increase environment variables storage space?
>
> I have no idea where you got your board configuration from, but it is
> definitely not current code, nor the binary image at
> ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/amcc/yosemite/u-boot.bin
>
> The current code does use (redundand) flash for environment storage.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 5:09 uboot environment variables size for Yosemite board Leonid
2006-07-17 7:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-07-17 11:02 ` John Otken [this message]
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