[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: fix RAM size for Armada XP board DB-MV784MP-GP
Gregory CLEMENT
gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 13 10:42:43 EDT 2013
On 03/13/2013 03:39 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 06:30:30PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On 12-03-2013 19:12, Jason Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> The board is supplied with a 4GB RAM module. This value can be
>>> overridden by the bootloader based on probed memory size. We set it to
>>> a reasonable value here.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
>>> ---
>>> As promised, catching this fix in the -rc cycle.
>>
>>> For those not familiar, earlier versions of the patch adding this board listed
>>> 3GB because that is all that was visible. I mistaken applied v3 of the patch
>>> instead of v4 which properly listed 4GB. This patch cleans up my error.
>>
>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts | 9 ++++-----
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
>>> index 1c8afe2..4a2776a 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
>>> @@ -28,12 +28,11 @@
>>> device_type = "memory";
>>>
>>> /*
>>> - * 4 GB of plug-in RAM modules by default but only 3GB
>>> - * are visible, the amount of memory available can be
>>> - * changed by the bootloader according the size of the
>>> - * module actually plugged
>>> + * 4 GB of plug-in RAM modules by default. The amount of memory
>>> + * available can be changed by the bootloader according the
>>
>> "According to the size".
>
> ok.
>
>>> + * size of the module actually plugged
>>> */
>>> - reg = <0x00000000 0xC0000000>;
>>> + reg = <0x00000000 0xD0000000>;
>>
>> But this is not 4G?
>
> Interesting, this was the value given in v4 of the original patch adding
> this board. I should have double-checked it. v2 on the way.
>
I was wrong in my initial version, all we can do in 32 bits is not 4GB but 4GB-1B:
reg = <0x00000000 0xFFFFFFFF>
> thx,
>
> Jason.
>
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