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

Jerry Van Baren vanbaren at cideas.com
Fri May 17 20:13:29 CEST 2013


On 05/17/2013 02:05 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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!

FWIIW...

Acked-by: Gerald Van Baren <vanbaren at cideas.com>

Thanks,
gvb




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