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

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Mar 4 14:05:06 EST 2014


On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 08:02:15PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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 :-)

Ok, just wanted to make sure we weren't trying to work around broken
bootloaders (DT aware, wrong idea of size) or something else silly like
that.

thx,

Jason.



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