[PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the new Armada XP evaluation board(DB-MV784MP-GP)
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Wed Jan 30 13:10:35 EST 2013
Gregory,
Adding devicetree-discuss.
Guys, how do you prefer to handle plug-in RAM modules? describe the
soldered-in amount, or?
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:35:17PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 06:33 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:26:14PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >> This is the new Armada XP evaluation board from Marvell. It comes with
> >> a RS232 port over USB, a SATA link, an internal SSD, 4 Ethernet
> >> Gigabit links.
> >>
> >> Support for USB (Host and device), SDIO, PCIe will be added as drivers
> >> when they become available for Armada XP in mainline.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile | 1 +
> >> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
> >> create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
> >>
...
> >> + memory {
> >> + device_type = "memory";
> >> + reg = <0x00000000 0xC0000000>; /* 3 GB */
> >
> > Is this the soldered on the board amount, or the amount with an
> > expandable slot filled?
>
> It is not soldered, so you can change the amount of memory
Well, there's something we don't encounter too much in the embedded
world. ;-) I'm inclined to think the entry here should be the soldered
on amount, and the bootloader would (hypothetically) change the DT to
the probed amount. But I haven't seen a precedent set yet...
thx,
Jason.
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