[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] integrator: pass a Device Tree by default

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Linus,

In message <CACRpkdZ2XCBU9QvFUg=c_2E=QQP=fmRaup-EnEWx3hWzqvtqcA at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> >> -#define CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR         0x7fc0  /* default load address */
> >> +#define CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR         0x800   /* default load address */
> >
> > This appears to be an unrelated change.  It should be clearly
> > documented, especially as users who just update U-Boot on their board
> > may have to make this change manually.
> 
> OK moved this out to a separate patch. Not very important anyway, I just
> never understood the very weird offset 0x7fc0, because when I tested it
> any address sort of works...
> 
> Any hints on why it is (historically) set to 0x7fc0?

I can only speculate - 0x40 = 64 bytes is the size of the old legacy
uImage header; with this load address the payload would be aligned at
0x8000.  Eventually this was used to avoid a memcpy in case of
uncompressed kernel images?

> >>  #define CONFIG_SERVERIP 192.168.1.100
> >>  #define CONFIG_IPADDR 192.168.1.104
> >
> > Please get rid of these.  We don't allow this in board config files.
> 
> I'll try to convert this to using DHCP.

Thanks.

> >> +  "setenv fdtaddr 0x00800000 ; " \
> >> +  "bootp $loadaddr $serverip:uImage ; " \
> >> +  "bootp $fdtaddr $serverip:integratorcp.dtb ; " \
> >> +  "bootm $loadaddr - $fdtaddr"
> >
> > Is it intentional that integratorap.h and integratorcp.h are now
> > configured so differently?
> 
> Yes, the Integrator/CP has an ethernet adapter (SMSC91x) that we know will
> always be available and preferred boot path.
> 
> The Integrator/AP has an optional Ethernet PCI card, but we cannot rely on that
> always being present.

Hm... that's a change of behaviour to all users, which is not really
nice.  But OK, you're the board maintainer...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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