[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 03/13] ARM: bcm2835: add Raspberry Pi model B board

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Aug 1 12:22:03 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:19:15AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:13:33PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > The Raspberry Pi model B uses the BCM2835 SoC, has 256MB of RAM, contains
> > an SMSC 9512 USB LAN/Hub chip, and various IO connectors. For more details,
> > see http://www.raspberrypi.org/.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
> [snip]
> > +int dram_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	gd->ram_size = SZ_256M;
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> You should use get_ram_size(CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE,
> max-possible-dram-size);  I say this as I just found a "oh, so that's
> why mainline reports the right amount of memory and other tree does not"
> bug yesterday.  This should also be in the SoC-generic code area (like
> say arch/arm/cpu/arm1176/bcm2835/board.c).  Sorry I didn't spot this
> last go-round.

I forgot about the video co-processor change later in the series, so you
can disregard this specific comment.  But I have some still applicable
comments I'm going to add to the 0/13 patch now.

-- 
Tom
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