[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: socfpga: Increase Malloc pool size to support FAT filesystem in SPL

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Jan 18 06:23:56 UTC 2019


On 1/17/19 7:57 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
> 
> This is minimum memory pool size required to get SPL booting to U-Boot,
> such as FPGA program and loading U-Boot image from FAT.

Rather, this is the minimal size needed for FAT to work ? But then ,
maybe you should just set the malloc area size a bit bigger to have some
headroom available.

How did you come to the number 0x12000 ? Did you do some measurements ?

> Signed-off-by: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
> ---
>  include/configs/socfpga_common.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> index bd8f5c8..93273a8 100644
> --- a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> +++ b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ unsigned int cm_get_qspi_controller_clk_hz(void);
>  #if defined(CONFIG_TARGET_SOCFPGA_ARRIA10)
>  /* SPL memory allocation configuration, this is for FAT implementation */
>  #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE	0x00010000
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE	0x00012000
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START	(CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE - \
>  					 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE + \
>  					 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR)
> 


-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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