[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt_support: Use CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS if defined

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Tue Apr 30 23:14:16 CEST 2013


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On 04/30/2013 04:49 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>> And I guess having this knowledge correct for the kernel is
>> useful in other contexts like when we want to power down some
>> banks of memory but not others?  I mean, there's "lots" of
>> platforms that lie and say 1 bank since we require contiguous
>> mapping.  Thanks!
> 
> Thanks for the review!
> 
> At the moment I'm _not_ convinced that there's a good reason to 
> specify 8 banks.  We appear to have lied and said 1 bank on 
> exynos5250-snow (ARM Chromebook) and I don't know of any bad side 
> effects.
> 
> The code I'm looking at right now indicates 8 banks.  We need to
> track down why someone did that but it doesn't seem totally crazy
> to allow specifying the proper number of banks so I figured I'd
> send this patch up.
> 
> If you prefer, we can leave this patch hanging until we actually
> track down if specifying 8 banks was really needed.

Yes please, lets hold.  Thanks!

- -- 
Tom
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