[U-Boot] [PATCH] rpi4: enable dram bank initialization

Andrei Gherzan andrei at balena.io
Mon Sep 9 09:42:59 UTC 2019


On 06/09/2019 13.58, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>
> On 06/09/2019 14:11, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 06.09.19 13:56, matthias.bgg at kernel.org wrote:
>>> From: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger at suse.com>
>>>
>>> When booting through the efi stub, the memory map get's created by
>>> reading the dram bank information. Depending on the version of the RPi4
>>> this information changes. Read the device tree to initialize the dram
>>> bank data structure. This way the kernel is able to access the whole
>>> range of available memory.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger at suse.com>
>>> ---
>>> This patch is based on basic RPi4 support implemented by series:
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg335667.html
>>>
>>> To actually work correctly we need the series that fixes the libftd:
>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1158304/
>>>
>>>   board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>   configs/rpi_4_defconfig     | 2 +-
>>>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
>>> index fa57d50c95..eea8a69551 100644
>>> --- a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
>>> +++ b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c
>>> @@ -312,6 +312,14 @@ int dram_init(void)
>>>       return 0;
>>>   }
>>>   +#ifdef CONFIG_BCM2711
>>> +int dram_init_banksize(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    return fdtdec_decode_ram_size(gd->fdt_blob, NULL, 0, NULL,
>>
>> This also depends on CONFIG_OF_BOARD, no?
>>
> I would need to double check if at this point gd->fdt_blob is in it's final
> state or might get updated afterwards.
>
> Actually I think we should change all RPi configs to OF_BOARD, which would also
> be necessary to implement a single binary for RPi3 and RPi4. But that's another
> story.
Looks good to me.

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Andrei Gherzan
Head Of Devices | balena.io
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