[PATCH v4 0/5] rpi: Tidy up booting
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Thu Jan 30 20:54:58 CET 2025
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 17:34, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> In version 2, it incorporates some changes to fdt_addr, etc. suggested
> by Tom, as well as adding myself as a maintainer.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Expand the comment on set_fdt_addr()
> - Update the commit message to talk in terms of my testing
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add to the existing comment block
> - Update the comment block with the new values, including compression
>
> 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 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
We have hit rc1 now. Is there any interest in applying this series?
Regards,
Simon
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