From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] ARM: Start using fdt_high for relocation
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 17:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131206175937.5e2ad421@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131206154850.GW420@bill-the-cat>
Hi Tom,
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:48:50 -0500, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been thinking. We've had a thread on i.MX platforms about fdt
> being overwritten and needing to be moved to another address. And I've
> also had an internal problem about fdt being overwritten. So, how about
> as a rule of thumb we start setting fdt_high (in configs) to
> memory-start + 512MiB, as that's the lowmem limit we should always have
> available. This will fix the problem of BSS overwriting the DT, which
> is the problem we won't catch in normal bootm/bootz usage. Thoughts?
Not sure I'm getting the issue clear, and I would like to avoid (me and
others) having to switch back and forth between threads. Can you sketch
the failure scenario in a couple of lines?
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-06 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 15:48 [U-Boot] [RFC] ARM: Start using fdt_high for relocation Tom Rini
2013-12-06 16:59 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2013-12-06 17:18 ` Tom Rini
2013-12-06 19:28 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-12-06 20:31 ` Tom Rini
2013-12-06 20:44 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-06 21:04 ` Tom Rini
2013-12-06 23:05 ` Stephen Warren
2013-12-06 20:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20131206175937.5e2ad421@lilith \
--to=albert.u.boot@aribaud.net \
--cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.