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

Doug Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Fri May 17 18:59:23 CEST 2013


Tom,

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>> Saw your reply but don't completely understand it.  I think we'd still
>> like U-Boot to populate the memory property if possible and it sounds
>> like your patch would prevent that.  One reason is that we'd like to
>> be able to handle different memory configurations (one of which is
>> 3.5G) with a single binary and have U-Boot just tell the kernel how
>> much space there is.
>
> So, I've been assuming that these are different platforms that you
> already append different device trees on, so that you use the same
> binary still and just different DTs.  Is that not the case here?

Current thought is that we'll even share a device tree between the two
boards since differences between the two are very minimal.  Sorta like
how you can buy a Galaxy Nexus with 8G or 16G.  They're the same
device (as far as I know) just with a different eMMC part stuffed on.

-Doug


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