[PATCH] ARM: AM335x: Beaglebone: Fix memory setup for Beaglebone black

[Antony Pavlov]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:35:13 +0200
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> Hi Antony,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:08:59PM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:13:54 +0200
> > Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Question to Sascha.
> > 
> > Can we preserve the 'memory' dts record in situations like this?
> > 
> > Is it possible just alter dts in early init code?
> > Or something else?
> 
> For what do you want to preserve it? barebox never uses the memory node
> directly to pass it to the kernel. The barebox memory banks are
> initialized from the code and from the dts. When starting Linux the
> memory node is (re)populated with the barebox memory banks
> 
> I may misunderstand what you are trying to archieve.

Imagine a family of boards. The RAM size can vary from board to board
(for simplicity suppose that all over conditions are the same).
Suppose I have a reliable RAM size detection routine and I want to run
just the same barebox image on different boards.
I want to run dts enabled Linux on all boards.

How can I handle this situation correctly?

Also note that on MIPS boards barebox uses no more than 256 MiB of RAM
(even if a board has more than 256 MiB of RAM). It's a measure to make
mips barebox simplier.
I want to pass information on all available RAM to linux via dts.
Can you describe reasonable barebox behaviour in this situation please?

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov