[PATCH 2/5] riscv: cpu: th1520: Limit upper RAM boundary to 4 GiB

Yao Zi ziyao at disroot.org
Thu Jul 10 05:41:58 CEST 2025


TH1520 SoC ships DMA peripherals that could only reach the first 32-bit
range of memory, for example, the GMAC controllers. Let's limit the
usable top of RAM below 4GiB to ensure DMA allocations are accessible to
all peripherals.

Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <ziyao at disroot.org>
---
 arch/riscv/cpu/th1520/dram.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/cpu/th1520/dram.c b/arch/riscv/cpu/th1520/dram.c
index 91007c0a3d3..8a0ca26785e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/cpu/th1520/dram.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/cpu/th1520/dram.c
@@ -19,3 +19,19 @@ int dram_init_banksize(void)
 {
 	return fdtdec_setup_memory_banksize();
 }
+
+phys_addr_t board_get_usable_ram_top(phys_size_t total_size)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that we run from first 4GB so that all
+	 * addresses used by U-Boot are 32bit addresses.
+	 *
+	 * This in-turn ensures that 32bit DMA capable
+	 * devices work fine because DMA mapping APIs will
+	 * provide 32bit DMA addresses only.
+	 */
+	if (gd->ram_top > SZ_4G)
+		return SZ_4G;
+
+	return gd->ram_top;
+}
-- 
2.50.0



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