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@@ -3811,6 +3811,15 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
compiling a NAND SPL.
+- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
+ Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
+ effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
+ U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
+ to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
+ it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
+ addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
+ to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
+
- CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will