[U-Boot] [PATCH] Kirkwood: dram_init is moved to dram.c
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 1 09:53:47 CEST 2010
Dear Prafulla Wadaskar,
In message <F766E4F80769BD478052FB6533FA745D19A696EA25 at SC-VEXCH4.marvell.com> you wrote:
>
> > This is only OK, if the memory banks are consecutive without
> > gaps ... is this true for all boards?
>
> Yes, those are consecutive without gaps on all boards so far.
> But one can configure with gaps too, for ex. If any new board uses two chips with smaller size then it is possibility of gap insertion.
>
> In that case how it should be?
If possible, the memory controller should be configured such that the
banks are mapped at different addresses then, so that they again form
a contiguous RAM area.
If this is not possible (because the bank base addresses cannot be
adjusted), then we have a problem.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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