[PATCH v2] am57xx: restore bootm_size for ARMv7 HighMem constraint

Neha Malcom Francis n-francis at ti.com
Wed May 20 12:55:48 CEST 2026


Hi Moteen

On 20/05/26 14:28, Moteen Shah wrote:
> babae80169d removed bootm_size from ti_common.env to allow K3 boards
> to process images larger than 256MB, but preserved it in
> ti_armv7_keystone2.env for ARMv7 Keystone2 boards. AM57xx (also ARMv7)
> was not covered by that preservation.
> 
> Without bootm_size, env_get_bootm_size() falls back to gd->ram_size,
> causing initrd_high to be computed as the top of all RAM. On ARM32
> boards with more RAM than the DMA zone (e.g. AM572x IDK with 2GiB),
> this places the ramdisk above 0xafe00000 (HighMem), which is not
> directly accessible by the kernel after MMU setup, causing a silent
> crash.
> 
> With bootm_size=0x10000000, initrd_high is constrained to
> 0x80000000 + 0x10000000 = 0x90000000, keeping the ramdisk in the
> DMA zone and allowing the kernel to access it correctly.
> 
> Fixes: babae80169dd ("include: env: ti_common: remove bootm_size")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Moteen Shah <m-shah at ti.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
> - Fixed the prefix of the commit message subject line
> - Fixed the fixed tag to follow the guidelines
>  board/ti/am57xx/am57xx.env | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/board/ti/am57xx/am57xx.env b/board/ti/am57xx/am57xx.env
> index a7cbbced099..74659279484 100644
> --- a/board/ti/am57xx/am57xx.env
> +++ b/board/ti/am57xx/am57xx.env
> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>  #include <env/ti/ti_common.env>
>  #include <env/ti/mmc.env>
>  #include <env/ti/dfu.env>
> +bootm_size=0x10000000
>  

Move the bootm_size below the empty line (nitpick)

>  bootpart=0:2
>  bootdir=/boot


With that,

Reviewed-by: Neha Malcom Francis <n-francis at ti.com>

-- 
Thanking You
Neha Malcom Francis



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