[PATCH v2 0/5] rpi: Tidy up booting

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 00:05:49 CET 2024


On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 18:20, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> This series allows rpi to boot a compressed Ubuntu kernel with ~100MB
> ramdisk, by expanding the available space.
>

What version of the RPi hardware have you tested this on?


> It also tidies up some strange behaviour with the provided FDT, where a
> separate pointer is maintained to it, even though U-Boot has copied it
> and placed it in its own space. This avoids strange bugs where it
> accidentally gets overwritten when loading a file into memory.
>
> The patch to expand the devicetree was dropped, meaning that people
> should be careful to unset fdt_addr in the environment.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Add new patch to make myself an rpi maintainer
> - Add new patch to set bootm_size
> - Add new patch to drop fdt_high and initrd_high
> - Drop patch to allow expanding the devicetree during relocation
>
> Simon Glass (5):
>   rpi: Add myself to the list of maintainers
>   rpi: Set bootm_size to 512MB
>   rpi: Drop fdt_high and initrd_high
>   rpi: Update environment to support booti and large initrd
>   rpi: Use the U-Boot control FDT for fdt_addr
>
>  MAINTAINERS                   |  1 +
>  board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c   | 20 ++++++++------------
>  board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>


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