[RFC PATCH 2/3] RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Tue Nov 3 10:19:06 EST 2020


On 03/11/2020 15:07, Atish Patra wrote:
>>> We could just modify the reg size but to allow more memory. I tried
>>> that for Linux but it didn't boot.
>>> Probably, DDR init code in HSS only initialized 1GB of memory.
>> Yes, it is only looking at the low window which is 1GiB max.
>> If it used the upper window it would get the 16GiB.
>>
>> I don't know how no-one noticed this issue before shipping a board
>> out with this. I have updated the firmware on my second board but
>> this only seems to currently fix a reboot issue with the eMMC.
>>
> We can't update the DT for Linux until there is a public release of
> the updated firmware
> with 2GB enabled.

Yeah, it is really annoying the boards turned up with a number of
issues including the half memory.

I assume there will be a new release of HSS and U-boot which at
worse can insert new memory nodes into the device tree.

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