[U-Boot] AM335X: Set fdt_high for AM335X devices to enable booting with Device Tree
Hiremath, Vaibhav
hvaibhav at ti.com
Mon Jan 28 04:44:58 CET 2013
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 03:40:51, Rini, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:26:05AM -0000, hvaibhav at ti.com wrote:
>
> > For AM335X boards, such as the EVM and Bone Linux kernel fails to
> > locate the device tree blob on boot. The reason being is that
> > u-boot is copying the DT blob to the upper part of RAM when booting
> > the kernel and the kernel is unable to access the blob.
> > By setting the fdt_high variable to 0xffffffff (to prevent the copy)
> > the kernel is able to locate the DT blob and boot.
> >
> > This patch is tested on BeagleBone platform.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav at ti.com>
> > Cc: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
>
> So, a "funny" thing happened along the way since this patch. The newest
> revision of the EVM includes 1GB of DDR and thus we do now need this
> patch. Applied to u-boot-ti/master, thanks!
>
Ohhh Great, Thanks for pulling in this patch Tom.
Thanks,
Vaibhav
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