[U-Boot] [PATCH 08/25] Blackfin: kill off useless initdram() usage

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <200912171723.51435.vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> > Would it not make sense to start using get_ram_size(), too?
>
> i havent heard of this function before.  looking through the tree, it seems

Seems you have ignored a lot of messages on this list ;-)

> like this is an optional board-specific function that probes external memory 
> sizes by reading/writing to it.

Right, with at least two purposes: detecting memroy errors, and
determining the available memory size.

> on a Blackfin system, this is a pretty big waste.  memory must always be 

Waste in terms of ... ?

> mapped starting at address 0 which means once the highest address is 
> validated, things can return.  ignoring that, the Blackfin port has no 
> relocation support, so the link time addresses are fixed.

The memory test alone is a pretty good reason to add this. And don;t
you have boards with multiple configurations / different RAM sizes
where auto-sizing would be useful?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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