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Re: [microblaze-uclinux] uclinux boots using the image stored inFLASH!!

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From: emanuel stiebler <emu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:10:04 -0600
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anand_12 wrote:

>  on reset, the FPGA is configured with the bitstream and 
the processor starts executing from address 0x00000000 which
is where we have our rather simple bootloader(downloaded
along with bitstream) that copies the image from FLASH to
SDRAM and then jumps to the starting address of the RAM...

Question here:
Why do we have to do that this way ?
Why can't we just use a bootloader in the flash ?

Seems to me like a waste, to use the FPGA internal RAM for the 
bootloader ...

cheers

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