Re: [PATCH 7/8] arm64: dts: s32g2: add memory nodes for evb and rdb2

Chester Lin
2021-08-13T14:58:57Z

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 08:25:00PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi Chester et al.,
>
> On 05.08.21 08:54, Chester Lin wrote:
> > Add memory nodes for S32G-VNP-EVB and S32G-VNP-RDB2 since they have fixed
> > RAM size.
>
> You can drop "since they have fixed RAM size" - if they didn't, you
> would simply choose the lowest size and rely on the bootloader (U-Boot)
> to overwrite it with the actually detected size.
>
> Please expand why this patch is separate - BSP based, I assume?
>

Yes, the information of memory banks is from s32 downstream kernel, which is
listed in the board DTs of older releases [bsp27] although newer releases
[bsp28 & bsp29] have moved it into s32 downstream u-boot as runtime fdt-fixup.
I think we should still reveal this information in kernel DTs in order to have
better understanding of system memory ranges that each board can have.

@NXP: Please don't hesitate to let me know if any better idea, thanks!

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chester Lin <clin@suse.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-evb.dts | 8 ++++++++
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-rdb2.dts | 8 ++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-evb.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-evb.dts
> > index a1ae5031730a..cd41f0af5dd8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-evb.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-evb.dts
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT
> > /*
> > * Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
> > + * Copyright 2019-2020 NXP
>
> @NXP: Please review year, alignment. Do any Signed-off-bys apply?
>
> > */
> >
> > /dts-v1/;
> > @@ -14,6 +15,13 @@ / {
> > chosen {
> > stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> > };
> > +
> > + memory@80000000 {
> > + device_type = "memory";
> > + /* 4GB RAM */
>
> This looks strange to me - either put /* 4 GiB RAM */ before the node,
> three lines above, and/or append comment /* 2 GiB */ on each line below.
> Note the space, and suggest to be precise about factor 1024 vs. 1000.
>

Thank you for the suggestion.

> > + reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0x80000000>,
>
> Note that this gives you the range to use for the .dtsi /soc node:
> Address 0x0 with size 0x80000000 gets mapped to 0x0 0x0, excluding the
> upper 0x80000000 for the RAM here. Or address 0x0 0x0 for two /soc cells
> if there are high-memory peripherals.
>

I don't know if memory ranges might be changed for new boards or CPU revisions
in the future, which means the first memory range might be expanded as well
[e.g. 0~4GB]. Based this assumption, I think the size should also be changed
accordingly. Not sure if overlays can still work with this case but overwriting
all reg properties under /soc could be awful.

However if we only have to think of current hardware spec, it's good to declare
"range = <0 0 0 0x80000000>".

Please feel free to let me know if any suggestions, thanks.

> > + <8 0x80000000 0 0x80000000>;
>
> Maybe use 0x8 here and 0x0 above? (second 0 stays same, so don't mind)
>

Will fix it.

> > + };
> > };
> >
> > &uart0 {
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-rdb2.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-rdb2.dts
> > index b2faae306b70..8fbbf3b45eb8 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-rdb2.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/s32g274a-rdb2.dts
> > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT
> > /*
> > * Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
> > + * Copyright 2019-2020 NXP
>
> @NXP: 2021?
>
> > */
> >
> > /dts-v1/;
> > @@ -14,6 +15,13 @@ / {
> > chosen {
> > stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> > };
> > +
> > + memory@80000000 {
> > + device_type = "memory";
> > + /* 4GB RAM */
> > + reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0x80000000>,
> > + <8 0x80000000 0 0x80000000>;
> > + };
>
> Same comments as for EVB.
>
> > };
> >
> > &uart0 {
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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