[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 1/4] Change initdram() return type to phys_size_t

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Jun 10 17:34:28 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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