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+#
+# (C) Copyright 2005
+# Heiko Schocher, DENX Software Engineering, <hs@denx.de>
+#
+# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+# project.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+# MA 02111-1307 USA
+#
+
+#
+# IDS 8247 Board
+#
+
+# This should be equal to the CFG_FLASH_BASE define in config_IDS8247.h
+# for the "final" configuration, with U-Boot in flash, or the address
+# in RAM where U-Boot is loaded at for debugging.
+#
+TEXT_BASE = 0xfff00000
+
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DTEXT_BASE=$(TEXT_BASE) -I$(TOPDIR)