[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: tegra: Use mem size from MC rather than ODMDATA

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jul 3 09:45:52 CEST 2014


Dear Stephen,

In message <53B47F6F.1090405 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > Is there a specific reason for not using get_ram_size()?
> 
> Since we know the exact RAM size, we may as well simply use it directly
> rather than "probing" for it.

You _think_ you know the size, but you can never be sure that all this
RAM is actually present and working.  There has been many discussions
before why using get_ram_size() makes a lot of sense even in fixed
size RAM configurations.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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