[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 3/3] Add support for the LaCie ED Mini V2 board

Albert ARIBAUD albert.aribaud at free.fr
Sat Dec 5 08:03:05 CET 2009


Wolfgang Denk a écrit :
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
> 
> In message <4B126F68.9020005 at free.fr> you wrote:
>>> Cannot you use get_ram_size() for auto-sizing and checking?
>> The SoC allows for up to 4 banks of DRAM, not necessarily contiguous. 
>> Granted, this is not a frequent configuration, however I'd like to 
>> support it correctly, and the heuristics of get_ram_size() are based on 
>> the assumption that all DRAM is contiguous.
> 
> No, this is not correct. get_ram_size() is used always on a single
> bank of memory only.

Do you mean calling get_ram_size() four up to times based on the 
configured number of banks and configured sizes? I then fail to see the 
added value of get_ram_size() wrt using the configured sizes directly.

>> However I realize that this code is actually SoC-specific, not 
>> board-specific. It could be moved in cpu/arm926ejs/orion5x/dram.c, and 
>> then orion5x_sdram_{bar,bs} could be made static (or inlined).
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Seems to make sense.

All right. Does doing that lift the requirement to use get_ram_size()?

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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