locore.S question

[Guillaume Ballet]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd at 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