[PATCH 1/4] arm: mvebu: limit OpenBlocks AX3-4 to 1 GB of RAM

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Jan 4 12:31:39 EST 2013


Dear Andrew Lunn,

On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:26:35 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> How many different boards have you tried?

I've tried only one board, since I have only one.

> I've not had problems with the board i have. Using the plathome supplied 
> kernel, i've rebuilt the kernel, which is a good memory test. Using 
> mainline, i've booted a number of times when developing the thermal 
> driver and not had problems.
> 
> I would hate to disable 2GB of RAM just because your board has a fault.

Indeed. If you report that things work nicely on your board, then let's
discard this fix, and blame a hardware problem.

Thanks!

Thomas
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