[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 11:29:57 UTC 2017


> On 10 Nov 2017, at 12:26, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Dr. Philipp Tomsich
> <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> AFAIK, global config options sometimes new changes I've seen the
> series in ML on 02/11 which is crossed MW. ie reason I've commented.

We still have a major issue with what the rk3*_common.h files affect and
how the can generate unwanted side-effects. The goal should be to have
these further cleaned up for the future to not have these dependencies and
rather rely on each board’s DTS to configure things.

>> 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)…
> 
> OK.
> 
> thanks!
> -- 
> Jagan Teki
> Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
> U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
> Hyderabad, India.



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