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From: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: "Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	"Nicolas Pitre" <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Eric Miao" <eric.miao@nvidia.com>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	"Chris Brandt" <chris.brandt@renesas.com>,
	"Linux ARM" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] ARM: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:31:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5419f6b6-2d75-763f-abe1-4c6a2c67dc3d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHm=xA4gafwAaBn8=YcAsQCYDNmZ=4REsfvEUgZShm3Ww@mail.gmail.com>

21.04.2020 18:19, Ard Biesheuvel пишет:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 17:34, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, the start address of physical memory is obtained by masking
>> the program counter with a fixed mask of 0xf8000000.  This mask value
>> was chosen as a balance between the requirements of different platforms.
>> However, this does require that the start address of physical memory is
>> a multiple of 128 MiB, precluding booting Linux on platforms where this
>> requirement is not fulfilled.
>>
>> Fix this limitation by obtaining the start address from the DTB instead,
>> if available (either explicitly passed, or appended to the kernel).
>> Fall back to the traditional method when needed.
>>
>> This allows to boot Linux on r7s9210/rza2mevb using the 64 MiB of SDRAM
>> on the RZA2MEVB sub board, which is located at 0x0C000000 (CS3 space),
>> i.e. not at a multiple of 128 MiB.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
>> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
>> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
>> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> 
> This is ready to go into the patch system, no?
> 
> The sooner Russell picks it up, the sooner I can respin my patches
> that go on top.
> 
> Thanks,

The v5 works for me on NVIDIA Tegra, just in case.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-21 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-15 15:34 Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-04-21 15:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-21 15:31   ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
2020-04-21 16:01   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-04-21 16:19     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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