[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] powerpc: Fix bootm to boot up again with a Ramdisk

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Sep 10 22:30:55 CEST 2008


On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Heiko Schocher wrote:

> Patch
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a1a2cb6e2b87ee550e6f27b647d23331dfd5e1b#patch3
>
> didnt remove the dummy mem reservation in fdt_chosen, and
> this stopped Linux from booting with a Ramdisk. This patch
> fixes this, by deleting the useless dummy mem reservation.
>
> When booting with a Ramdisk, a fix offset FDT_RAMDISK_OVERHEAD
> is now added to of_size, so we dont need anymore a dummy
> mem reservation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
>
> changes sinse last patch:
>
> - added comments from Wolfgang Denk
>
> common/cmd_fdt.c      |    3 ++-
> common/fdt_support.c  |    4 +---
> include/fdt.h         |    2 ++
> include/fdt_support.h |    2 +-
> lib_ppc/bootm.c       |    5 +++--
> 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

it would be nice in either the commit message or a comment how you  
came to the value of FDT_RAMDISK_OVERHEAD.

- k


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