[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 2/3] rockchip: doc: update U-Boot location info

Dr. Philipp Tomsich philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com
Fri Nov 10 11:18:22 UTC 2017


Jagan,

> On 10 Nov 2017, at 12:12, Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Dr. Philipp Tomsich
> <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
>> Kever,
>> 
>>> On 10 Nov 2017, at 08:24, Goldschmidt Simon <sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-fuchs.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Update rockchip U-Boot location to 0x4000/16384.
>> 
>> At least the location given in the commit message is consistent:
>>        (gdb) p 0x4000
>>        $1 = 16384
>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kever Yang <kever.yang at rock-chips.com>
>>>>> Acked-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 
>>>>> doc/README.rockchip | 6 +++---
>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Applied to u-boot-rockchip, thanks!
>>> 
>>> I just found this commit has calculated the size wrong. 16384 blocks should be 8MB, not 4MB.
>> 
>> Could you take a look at this and let us know if this should be changed?
>> And if it needs a change (and you want it in Monday’s release): please submit a
>> patch and I’ll try to generate a PR to Tom over the weekend…
> 
> This even require some README.rockchip and falcon offset changes,
> Sorry I really don't understand why the new features been added for
> release tree.

This is not a new feature, but merely a configuration change.
Plus, it ensures consistency with the (legacy) vendor U-Boot.

Note that worked fine my smoke tests, as we have the offsets configured in the
DTS for our boards and don’t rely on platform/chipset defaults (which will never
be right for all use-cases anyway)…

Regards,
Philipp.


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