[PATCH 4/4] ARM: mvebu: the Armada XP Matrix board has 4 GB

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 4 14:02:15 EST 2014


Dear Jason Cooper,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:55:12 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Since the Armada XP Matrix board has 4 GB of RAM and not 2 GB, we
> > update the Device Tree to take into account the correct amount of
> > memory. As noted in the new comment, the last 256 MB of RAM are in
> > fact not usable, due to the overlap with the MBus Window address
> > range.
> 
> usually the bootloader (DT) or atags_to_fdt overwrites this.  Is there a
> scenario when that doesn't happen?

ATAGs booting with CONFIG_ARM_ATAG_DTB_COMPAT disabled. Though mainly
the intent here is that if the amount of memory is mentioned in the DT,
it's nicer when it's actually correct :-)

Thomas
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