From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: add support for the Freescale P1022DS reference board
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:10:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFEC39E.7040302@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFEC2FD.5050103@freescale.com>
On 05/27/2010 02:07 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>
>> Passing the actual, known size of RAM (why guess when we know?) as "maxsize"
>> should eliminate the machine check problem[1] -- you'd just be using it as a
>> not particularly exhaustive memory tester. I don't see why it should be
>> mandatory.
>
> The purpose of get_ram_size() is to verify the "known size of RAM". That
> is, once you think you know how much RAM there is, you ask get_ram_size() to
> verify that claim.
It would still (sort of) verify that you don't have less than you claim.
Attempting to experimentally determine whether you have more than you
claim is dangerous.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 22:01 [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: add support for the Freescale P1022DS reference board Timur Tabi
2010-05-20 22:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 23:13 ` Kumar Gala
2010-05-21 6:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 23:23 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-21 7:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-21 13:45 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-21 14:22 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-21 14:33 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-21 16:07 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 18:12 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 18:17 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-26 18:19 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 19:04 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-26 19:34 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 19:46 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-26 21:59 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-25 18:30 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 20:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-26 20:18 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-26 20:24 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 7:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 14:31 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 18:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 18:25 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 19:03 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-27 19:07 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 19:10 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2010-05-27 19:54 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 19:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 20:11 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 21:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 19:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 20:03 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 20:59 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 20:05 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-27 21:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 19:45 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 19:54 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-27 20:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-27 20:10 ` Scott Wood
2010-05-21 0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: add support for the FreescaleP1022DS " Liu Dave-R63238
2010-05-21 15:25 ` Timur Tabi
2010-05-21 9:46 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: add support for the Freescale P1022DS " Kumar Gala
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