From: albert.u.boot@aribaud.net (Albert ARIBAUD)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [U-Boot] Where to put a large bootloader-supplied device tree on ARM ?
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:45:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713084526.5f680de3@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFF79B6.6040508@gmail.com>
Hi Rob,
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:28:22 -0500, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 04:47 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
> >
> > In message <20120712233801.0411daa7@lilith> you wrote:
> >>
> >> If I'm not mistaken, yes U-Boot loads itself as high as it can, and I don't
> >> know about the FDT, but no, U-Boot does not "like" to load initrd "just
> >> below that": it loads initrd where the boot commands tell it to, and the
> >> boot commands are written by board developers. Nothing in U-Boot forces
> >> initrd to be loaded as high as possible.
>
> u-boot loads the initrd where you tell it, then bootm relocates it for
> some reason.
> >>
> >> That leaves the question of the FDT, though -- I'm not familiar enough
> >> with it (yet) to tell if it is always located just under U-Boot or if
> >> its placement is controllable by board commands.
> >
> > You can always just set the "fdt_high" and "initrd_high" evironment
> > variables to restrict the positioning of initrd and FDT in RAM; see
> > the README for details.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of all this, but this is not the default behavior and the
> default behavior will not work in this case. It also has another bug
> related to the relocation that I fixed:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg86475.html
>
> Rob
As for the default behavior, this becomes a board config issue, not a
U-Boot issue.
Regarding the patch, as a bugfix it will go in u-boot-arm/master
for 2012.07.
With all this, do we have the overall issue covered?
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-03 14:22 [PATCH v2 00/12] IRQ, GPIO SPI, I2C, etc DTC support Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: Orion: DT support for IRQ and GPIO Controllers Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 8:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 9:02 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 9:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 10:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 10:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 10:11 ` Arnaud Patard (Rtp)
2012-07-05 10:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 10:38 ` Arnaud Patard (Rtp)
2012-07-05 11:42 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 11:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 12:09 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-07-05 12:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 13:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 13:28 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 13:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 13:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-07-05 12:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-05 13:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 13:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-05 13:54 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 15:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-05 14:14 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-07-05 14:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-05 14:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-05 15:51 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2012-07-05 16:30 ` Arnaud Patard (Rtp)
2012-07-05 16:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-06 20:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-06 21:00 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-07 0:24 ` Where to put a large bootloader-supplied device tree on ARM ? Mitch Bradley
2012-07-07 1:23 ` David VomLehn (dvomlehn)
2012-07-07 1:59 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-07-09 4:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-07-12 6:52 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-07-12 18:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-07-12 20:34 ` Rob Herring
2012-07-12 21:38 ` [U-Boot] " Albert ARIBAUD
2012-07-12 21:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13 1:28 ` Rob Herring
2012-07-13 6:45 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2012-07-05 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: Orion: DT support for IRQ and GPIO Controllers Mitch Bradley
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] SPI: Refactor spi-orion to use SPI framework queue Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] spi-orion: remove uneeded spi_info Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] spi-orion: add device tree binding Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for orion-spi Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for SPI on dreamplug Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] I2C: MV64XXX: Add Device Tree support Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 15:59 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-03 16:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-04 19:49 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-05 6:52 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] Kirkwood: Add basic device tree support for QNAP TS219 Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 15:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-03 17:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] ARM: Kirkwood: DTify the watchdog timer Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] ATA: sata_mv: Add device tree support Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] ARM: Kirkwood: Use DT to configure SATA device Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:52 ` Josh Coombs
2012-07-03 15:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 14:22 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] Crypto: CESA: Add support for DT based instantiation Andrew Lunn
2012-07-03 15:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-07-03 17:03 ` Andrew Lunn
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