[U-Boot] [PATCH] Kirkwood: dram_init is moved to dram.c

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 1 10:00:45 CEST 2010


Dear Heiko Schocher,

[There is no need to always keep the full quote. Please delete parts
that are not interesting for the current diuscussion.]

In message <4CA57CE7.1060209 at denx.de> you wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Good question ... for this case we must adapt in arch/arm/lib/board.c
> 
> addr = CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE + gd->ram_size;
> 
> But no idea, where to put u-boot ... at the end of the first
> bank? at the end of the last bank?

It seems logical to me to put U-Boot to the end of the bank with the
highest address.

But as mentioned before, this may be not a nice system to use. So far
we kind of assume to have a contiguous area of RAM usable.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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