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From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>,
	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
	Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tero Kristo <t-kristo@ti.com>,
	Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>,
	Bill Mills <wmills@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Keystone: Introduce Kconfig option to compile in typical Keystone features
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:34:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <575027E9.3070202@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cdbd2482-de98-569b-7ff0-c8963037de53@oracle.com>

On 06/01/2016 06:26 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
[...]
>>> Side note on LPAE:
>>> For our current device tree and u-boot, LPAE is mandatory to bootup
>>> for current Keystone boards - but this is not a SoC requirement,
>>> booting without LPAE/HIGHMEM results in non-coherent DDR accesses.
>>
>> This sounds like a regression, I thought we had this working when
>> keystone was initially merged and we got both the coherent and
>> non-coherent mode working with the same DT.
>>
> Yes and it works. The coherent memory space itself is beyond 4GB so

Hmm... True, I just tested next-20160602 with mem_lpae set to 0 in
u-boot and it seems to boot just fine.

> I don't understand a requirement of having coherent memory without
> LPAE.

Looks like a messed up description on my end, Looks like I have to
update my automated test framework to incorporate the manual steps
involved.


-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-01 21:31 [PATCH] ARM: Keystone: Introduce Kconfig option to compile in typical Keystone features Nishanth Menon
2016-06-01 22:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-01 22:49   ` Nishanth Menon
2016-06-01 23:27     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-06-07  4:28     ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-07  8:09       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-07 12:04         ` Mark Brown
2016-06-08  9:47         ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-08 16:04           ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-06-09  6:50             ` Tony Lindgren
2016-06-09 10:32               ` Mark Brown
2016-06-01 23:26   ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-06-02 12:34     ` Nishanth Menon [this message]
2016-06-02 18:10       ` Santosh Shilimkar

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