[PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the new Armada XP evaluation board(DB-MV784MP-GP)

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Jan 31 07:45:42 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:07:35PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 07:10 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > Gregory,
> > 
> > Adding devicetree-discuss.
> 
> I should have added it in in CC in my first version
> 
> > 
> > Guys, how do you prefer to handle plug-in RAM modules?  describe the
> > soldered-in amount, or?
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:35:17PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >> On 01/30/2013 06:33 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:26:14PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >>>> This is the new Armada XP evaluation board from Marvell. It comes with
> >>>> a RS232 port over USB, a SATA link, an internal SSD, 4 Ethernet
> >>>> Gigabit links.
> >>>>
> >>>> Support for USB (Host and device), SDIO, PCIe will be added as drivers
> >>>> when they become available for Armada XP in mainline.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile         |    1 +
> >>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts |   94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
> >>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
> >>>>
> > ...
> >>>> +	memory {
> >>>> +		device_type = "memory";
> >>>> +		reg = <0x00000000 0xC0000000>; /* 3 GB */
> >>>
> >>> Is this the soldered on the board amount, or the amount with an
> >>> expandable slot filled?
> >>
> >> It is not soldered, so you can change the amount of memory
> > 
> > Well, there's something we don't encounter too much in the embedded
> > world.  ;-)  I'm inclined to think the entry here should be the soldered
> > on amount, and the bootloader would (hypothetically) change the DT to
> > the probed amount.  But I haven't seen a precedent set yet...
> 
> Well on this board there is no soldered memory at all.

So it has two slots? 1GB and 2GB?

thx,

Jason.



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