From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 10:03:52 -0600 Subject: BCM2836 (Raspberry Pi 2) port In-Reply-To: <1701192.WcfjCoBWQN@kongar> References: <1429639796-2169-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net> <4137213.WVJY1et48u@kongar> <55516738.306@wwwdotorg.org> <1701192.WcfjCoBWQN@kongar> Message-ID: <55522468.3050606@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 05/12/2015 09:39 AM, Alexander Stein wrote: > On Monday 11 May 2015, 20:36:40 wrote Stephen Warren: >> On 05/08/2015 10:14 AM, Alexander Stein wrote: >>> On Thursday 23 April 2015, 22:25:08 wrote Stephen Warren: >>>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 >>>>> U-Boot> setenv fdt_high fffffff >>> >>> Any specific reason to set fdt_high to fffffff? >> >> Yes, it prevents U-Boot's annoying habit of moving the DTB from where it >> was loaded to some other place. This was especially important in this >> case since I was trying to find out exactly which piece of RAM being >> over-written caused the issues I was seeing. > > Shouldn't this then be part of the default raspberry (2 only?) environment? Eventually yes. So far, nobody seems to know which areas of RAM are off-limits (presumably since the RAM is used as a CPU1..3 pen), so I was experimenting to try and find that out.