[PATCH 1/8] board: colibri_vf: synchronize/improve memory options

[Oleksandr Suvorov]

Hello Tom,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 8:41 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 06:49:36PM +0300, Oleksandr Suvorov wrote:
>
> > From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
> >
> > Synchronize initramfs related configuration options and improve
> > memory layout. The memory layout with an offset of 16MiB allows
> > to boot bigger kernels. With AUTO_ZRELADDR, which is pretty much
> > the standard nowadays, the kernel relacates itself to PC masked
> > with 0xf8000000 plus a text offset of 0x8000 (hence 0x80008000 for
> > Vybrid). With a 16MiB offset from the start of memory and a 16MiB
> > distance to the device-tree, we allow kernel up to ~16MiB.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Suvorov <oleksandr.suvorov at toradex.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  include/configs/colibri_vf.h | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/configs/colibri_vf.h b/include/configs/colibri_vf.h
> > index 5bd440f1db..7fb54a442e 100644
> > --- a/include/configs/colibri_vf.h
> > +++ b/include/configs/colibri_vf.h
> > @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
> >  #define MEM_LAYOUT_ENV_SETTINGS \
> >       "bootm_size=0x10000000\0" \
> >       "fdt_addr_r=0x82000000\0" \
> > +     "fdt_high=0xfffffff0\0" \
> > +     "initrd_high=0xfffffff0\0" \
> >       "kernel_addr_r=0x81000000\0" \
> >       "pxefile_addr_r=0x87100000\0" \
> >       "ramdisk_addr_r=0x82100000\0" \
>
> NAK.  You cannot disable device tree relocation by default.  You're
> already setting bootm_size, which is good. I don't like disabling
> initrd, but that's at least an easier to debug problem, and also much
> more performance sensitive.

Thanks for your notes! I'll remove this patch from the next patchset
version and think over how to rework
it later.

>
> --
> Tom

Best regards
Oleksandr Suvorov

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