[PATCH] arm, omap2, sram: On HS/EMU devices, only 64K internal SRAM is available.

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Wed Oct 14 21:26:00 PDT 2015


Hello Tony,

Am 15.10.2015 um 00:20 schrieb Tony Lindgren:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [151014 10:56]:
>> * Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de> [151012 22:58]:
>>> Of this, secure content (including PPA) uses initial
>>> portion of the SRAM. This chunk is not (and shouldn't
>>> be) accessible from the public code.
>>>
>>> The minimum size of this chunk (0x350) is used in this
>>> patch. Available size is rounded off to 63K.
>>>
>>> Both values would require a change if size of secure
>>> content grows beyond 0x350.
>>
>> Makes sense to me. And something similar is needed at least for
>> dm814x to get rid of the imprecise abort during boot with
>> commit bbeb92095159 ("ARM: 8422/1: enable imprecise aborts during
>> early kernel startup") applied.
>>
>> Is this needed as a fix to the -rc cycle, or can this wait for
>> v4.4?
>
> Actually I think we may have a regression somwhere. If you look
> at commit 8b9a2810b02e ("ARM: OMAP4+: Move SRAM data to DT")
> this should all be handled by drivers/misc/sram.c nowadays.
>
> So for most SoCs, we should completely skip the plat-omap/sram.c
> code.

Yes, correct. So it should be enough for changing the DT, thanks.

bye,
Heiko
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