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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Dec 5 01:35:07 CET 2009


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.

> 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.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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