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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:25:52 +0200
From:      Guillaume Ballet <gballet@gmail.com>
To:        Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org>
Cc:        Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: locore.S question
Message-ID:  <fd183dc60904010325k68e30eb5l72a219430ac7f29a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090401093815.GA23622@ci0.org>
References:  <20090331230945.GA8584@ci0.org> <200903312350.n2VNoAwK060973@casselton.net> <20090401093815.GA23622@ci0.org>

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:50:10PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> I was wondering why the kernel is loaded 16MB into the physical memory?
>>
>
> Don't know in this case, but it often happens the bootloader is loaded at
> the beginning of the ram, and so won't let you load the kernel there.
>
> Olivier
>

I have indeed u-boot and my intermediate kernel-loader that are loaded
at the beginning of the RAM. This is not carved in stone: I will
probably move the kernel-loader further away and overwrite u-boot.
During platform bringup, though, I have put it here.
Nothing to worry about, I was just wondering if there was some
concealed requirement for the kernel to be below the first 16MB of
RAM.

Guillaume



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