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

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri May 17 20:05:22 CEST 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:59:23AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> 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.

OK.  I'll pick up this patch then, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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