[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/4] arm: imx: m53evk: remove usage of mx53_dram_size

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Dec 19 11:18:13 UTC 2017


On 12/19/2017 05:28 AM, Patrick Brünn wrote:
>> From: Marek Vasut [mailto:marex at denx.de]
>> Sent: Montag, 18. Dezember 2017 13:30
>> On 12/18/2017 01:16 PM, Patrick Brünn wrote:
>>>> From: Marek Vasut [mailto:marex at denx.de]
>>>> Sent: Montag, 18. Dezember 2017 12:52
>>>> On 12/18/2017 12:40 PM, Patrick Brünn wrote:
> [...]
>>>> btw do you use SPL ? If not, you should ...
>>> I will read more about SPL. Until now, I thought I will only benefit,
>>> if my initial boot media is limited in size. As we boot from sdcard,
>>> that wasn't a problem to store 360k u-boot.
>>
>> The other is that you can ie. skip the whole u-boot altogether and boot
>> linux directly.
>>
> Okay, I will try that.
>> I wonder if it would be better to keep the static variable and avoid
>> calling the get_ram_size() twice, it can save some CPU cycles. Besides
>> that, thanks for the explanation/discussion !1
>>
> The pleasure was all mine. I will test SPL on my board and in case that's working I think it still makes sense to move our common code into one file. Is arch/arm/mach-imx/mx53_dram.c the best location for it?
> At first I tried board/freescale/common/ but in that case I needed to use ugly relative pathes in the Makefiles "../../"

I think arch/arm/mach-imx/ is good , yes . We already have some imx6 ddr
there too, maybe you can follow that scheme.

> Regards, Patrick
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