Why u-boot relocate from flash to RAM

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Why u-boot relocate from flash to RAM

Postby tvpatel12 » Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:53 am

Hi

i can't understand why u-boot relocate it self to RAM from Flash?
Why it doesn't execute from flash?

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Re: Why u-boot relocate from flash to RAM

Postby WarheadsSE » Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:12 am

Ask the u-boot developers.

But let me put it this way: u-boot is not relocating itself, the BOM (stage 0) loads stage 1 (MLO, SPL, etc) from some media, then the stage 1 loads u-boot (stage 2). All of this in RAM.
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