[PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the new Armada XP evaluation board(DB-MV784MP-GP)

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT)]

On 01/30/2013 07:10 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> Gregory,
> 
> Adding devicetree-discuss.

I should have added it in in CC in my first version

> 
> Guys, how do you prefer to handle plug-in RAM modules?  describe the
> soldered-in amount, or?
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:35:17PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On 01/30/2013 06:33 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:26:14PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>>> This is the new Armada XP evaluation board from Marvell. It comes with
>>>> a RS232 port over USB, a SATA link, an internal SSD, 4 Ethernet
>>>> Gigabit links.
>>>>
>>>> Support for USB (Host and device), SDIO, PCIe will be added as drivers
>>>> when they become available for Armada XP in mainline.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile         |    1 +
>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts |   94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-gp.dts
>>>>
> ...
>>>> +	memory {
>>>> +		device_type = "memory";
>>>> +		reg = <0x00000000 0xC0000000>; /* 3 GB */
>>>
>>> Is this the soldered on the board amount, or the amount with an
>>> expandable slot filled?
>>
>> It is not soldered, so you can change the amount of memory
> 
> Well, there's something we don't encounter too much in the embedded
> world.  ;-)  I'm inclined to think the entry here should be the soldered
> on amount, and the bootloader would (hypothetically) change the DT to
> the probed amount.  But I haven't seen a precedent set yet...

Well on this board there is no soldered memory at all.

> 
> thx,
> 
> Jason.
> 
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