[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] Tegra114: Dalmore: Add DT files

Tom Warren twarren.nvidia at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 00:29:11 CET 2013


Well, it's at 1GB now, so I'll leave it as is.

Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 01/17/2013 03:58 PM, Tom Warren wrote:
>> Stephen,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>> On 01/17/2013 10:58 AM, Tom Warren wrote:
>>>> Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 01/16/2013 02:14 PM, Tom Warren wrote:
>>>>>> These are stripped down for bringup, They'll be filled out later
>>>>>> to match-up with the kernel DT contents, and/or as devices are
>>>>>> brought up (mmc, usb, spi, etc.).
>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/board/nvidia/dts/tegra114-dalmore.dts b/board/nvidia/dts/tegra114-dalmore.dts
>>>>>
>>>>>> +     memory {
>>>>>> +             device_type = "memory";
>>>>>> +             reg = <0x80000000 0x40000000>;
>>>>>> +     };
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed, that says just 1GB...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> True, but that's what's in current Cardhu DTS, and Harmony, Seaboard,
>>>> and Ventana DTS files. Only Whistler has 0x20000000 (512MB).
>>>>
>>>> How is this used, and how do we keep it in sync with what's really on
>>>> the board/in the ODMDATA field?
>>>
>>> I don't believe U-Boot uses that property from the DT. Probably the DT
>>> isn't parsed early enough for it to be useful. But if we add it to the
>>> .dts file, it may as well be correct even so. Or, perhaps we should just
>>> remove it from the U-Boot DT since it isn't useful.
>>
>> Another candidate for a clean-up pass patchset over all Tegra code.
>> For now, I'll bump it to 2GB for Dalmore (and Cardhu), since that's
>> what's on the sample boards.
>
> 1GB would be safer for Cardhu; there are certainly very commonly used
> Cardhu SKUs with only 1GB of RAM. I have one. In fact, I once heard that
> most Linux-oriented Cardhu were 1GB and the 2GB devices were mostly used
> for Windows development.


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