[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdtdec: Support parsing multiple /memory nodes

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 03:11:26 UTC 2017


On 11/29/2017 03:58 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 03:45:45AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> 
>> It is legal to have multiple /memory nodes in a device tree . Currently,
>> fdtdec_setup_memory_size() only supports parsing the first node . This
>> patch extends the function such that if a particular /memory node does
>> no longer have further "reg" entries and CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS still
>> allows for more DRAM banks, the code moves on to the next memory node
>> and checks it's "reg"s. This makes it possible to handle both systems
>> with single memory node with multiple entries and systems with multiple
>> memory nodes with single entry.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> 
> https://www.devicetree.org/downloads/devicetree-specification-v0.1-20160524.pdf
> says that multiple nodes can be used, so this is the correct fix here.

I am not a big fan of this kind of practice, but that's how our DTs are,
so it cannot be helped and we have to support this :-(

> Thanks!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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