[PATCH 1/4] ARM: ep93xx: switch to SPARSEMEM

[Hartley Sweeten]

On Friday, May 26, 2017 2:50 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 05/26/2017 02:28 PM, Alexander Sverdlin wrote:
>> I've applied the patch to 4.12-rc2 as well (to be more precise, 1b8f2ffc of Linus's tree),
>> and it boots fine on EDB9302 (32MiB one chip on SDCS3). I even ran "memtester" fine, one
>> iteration.
>
> I need to debug this further because it does not make sense to me why
> this patch on 4.12-rc1 works but on on 4.1-2-rc2 other than just having
> a bit more bloat one image vs. another.

The bloat might be the problem.

In my earlier testing with the TS-7300 I found that if my uncompressed image/rootfs was
larger than then SDRAM segment size the system would not boot. I think I sent an email
to you regarding this when I was first trying to get the TS-7300 to boot a newer kernel.

Hartley