[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 1/4] Change initdram() return type to phys_size_t
Jon Loeliger
jdl at freescale.com
Tue Jun 10 17:30:31 CEST 2008
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 20:37 -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> This patch changes the return type of initdram() from long int to phys_size_t.
> This is required for a couple of reasons: long int limits the amount of dram
> to 2GB, and u-boot in general is moving over to phys_size_t to represent the
> size of physical memory. phys_size_t is defined as an unsigned long on almost
> all current platforms.
>
> This patch *only* changes the return type of the initdram function (in
> include/common.h, as well as in each board's implementation of initdram). It
> does not actually modify the code inside the function on any of the platforms;
> platforms which wish to support more than 2GB of DRAM will need to modify
> their initdram() function code.
>
> Build tested with MAKEALL for ppc, arm, mips, mips-el. Booted on powerpc
> MPC8641HPCN.
>
> Patch is too large for the list, and is located at:
> http://gate.crashing.org/~galak/0001-Change-initdram-return-type-to-phys_size_t.patch
The whole 4-part series:
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl at freescale.com>
jdl
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