[PATCH v5 1/7] treewide: move bi_dram[] from bd to gd

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 12:31:10AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 6/4/26 9:37 AM, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > Currently, the bi_dram[] information is stored in the board info
> > structure (bd). Because bd is only valid after reserve_board(),
> > dram_init_banksize() must be called late in the initialization process.
> > This limitation is problematic, as it forces us to rely on a variety of
> > bespoke functions to determine board RAM, bank memory sizes, and other
> > early setup requirements.
> > 
> > By moving bi_dram[] into the global data (gd), we can run it earlier.
> > This is particularly convenient since boards define their own
> > dram_init_banksize() routines, which do not always rely on parsing
> > Device Tree (DT) memory nodes.
> > 
> > Additionally, U-Boot defaults to relocating to the top of the first memory
> > bank. While boards currently use custom functions to override this
> > behavior, having the DRAM bank information available earlier in gd makes
> > relocating to a different bank trivial and standardizes the process.
> Regarding the BD, this is likely really old, but it seems BD might be passed
> from U-Boot to Linux somehow ? See [1] and U-Boot
> include/asm-generic/u-boot.h :
> 
>  8  * NOTE: This header file defines an interface to U-Boot. Including
>  9  * this (unmodified) header file in another file is considered normal
> 10  * use of U-Boot, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived
> 11  * work".
> 
> Are we certain we are not breaking ABI here ?
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/boot/ppcboot.h

I've added in Christophe as the maintainer of one of the active and in
some ways oldest (since MPC8xx is very old) PowerPC platforms we still
actively support. A tested-by on this series that also includes
verifying Linux still comes up would be much appreciated.

My suspicion is that anything DT-based shouldn't change here, and in
turn if you're doing modern U-Boot you're probably doing
not-extremely-ancient kernel and so DT based booting.

-- 
Tom
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