[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] add README.distro file

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Mar 25 21:40:09 CET 2014


On 03/21/2014 12:48 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:12:56PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 
>> Add documentation on how to setup a system to use the generic distro
>> configs and boot commands. This spells out what is needed to make a
>> system conformant, but does not limit the board to only the defaults.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>
> 
> [snip]
>> +suggested mapping:
>> +For suggestions on memory locations for arm systems  you must follow the
>> +guidelines specified in Documentation/arm/Booting in the Linux kernel tree.
>> +For other architectures you must follow the guidelines for the architecture.
> 
> Can you add something about what this means?  ie below base+128MB for
> kernel, because of this if possible base+128MB for fdt, fdt+512KB for
> ramdisk. And mention bootm_size to limit the relocation pool as well.  

I'm biased, but I like the explanations in
include/configs/tegraNN-common.h:-)


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