[U-Boot] [PATCH] mx6sabre_common: Allow booting a FSL 3.10 kernel

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 17:42:02 CET 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Otavio Salvador
>> <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>>
>>> My patch changed the load address for the device tree blog, as
>>> explained by Liu, it avoids an extra copy which may impact in boot
>>> speed.
>>
>> IMHO we should do a specific Falcon config if we are concerned with boot speed.
>>
>> I still prefer to remove fdt_high. We don't have fdt_high on
>> mx23evk/mx28evk/mx53loco/mx51evk, etc.
>
> I will send a single patch for all boards as requested by Stefano.
> Does it work for you?

I prefer to load dtb into a RAM position that comes prior to the
kernel, as we do currently.

I agree that it is not likely we will have a kernel larger than 128MB,
but we could have a kernel + ramfs larger than 128MB and the overlap
will still happen with your patch.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam


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