[U-Boot] [PATCH] integrator: pass a Device Tree by default

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jan 22 14:16:06 CET 2013


Dear Linus Walleij,

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >> > Shouldn't the load address be 0x8000 instead of 0x800 (it used to be
> >> > 0x7fc0) ?
> >> 
> >> 0x800 works fine, but honestly I don't know why Peter P ages ago chose
> >> the very odd address 0x7fc0.
> >> 
> >> But you know U-boot way better than me, and most things work fine it
> >> seems. What is a typical load address?
> > 
> > Heh, there ain't any "typical load address", the FDT binary is relocated
> > at the end of RAM just before boot anyway, so I'm ok with any address
> > you pick, just make it a sane one ;)
> 
> OK but 0x7fc0 was the load address for the kernel, so I was sort of
> wondering what a "typical" place to load the kernel would be, because
> 0x7fc0 seems quite arbitrarily chosen...

Indeed. I usually stick FDT far past the kernel, but that's just my preference I 
think.

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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