[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] powerpc: Fix bootm to boot up again with a Ramdisk

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Sep 13 02:03:27 CEST 2008


Dear Heiko Schocher,

In message <48C8B68B.5050603 at denx.de> you 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.
> 
> I measured the value of FDT_RAMDISK_OVERHEAD on a MPC8270
> based system (=0x44 bytes) and rounded it up to 0x80).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> ---
>  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(-)

Applied, thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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