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From: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: vf610: move device tree after kernel image
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:45:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05bb4b4a170fcd5b2c9abe875591c0c1@agner.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151014103642.1f2a62f5@lilith>

On 2015-10-14 01:36, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hello Stefan,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
> wrote:
>> Since the device tree relocation is disabled (fdt_high set to
>> 0xffffffff), U-Boot keeps the device tree at its load address
>> 0x81000000. The kernel uncompresses itself to 0x80008000 by
>> default, hence this limits the maximum (uncompressed) kernel
>> size to somewhat below 16MiB, otherwise the device tree gets
>> overwritten by the kernel data...
>>
>> Move the device tree load address to 0x84000000 to avoid that
>> the device tree being overwritten by the kernel.
> 
> OOC, why is device tree relocation disabled? I'm asking because by
> manually placing the device tree (or anything else) high in DDR, one
> runs the risk of overwriting some of U-Boot's data.

I guess this has been done for Cortex-M4 firmwares running from DDR. As
Tom pointed out, this can be archived in a nicer way using bootm_size.

--
Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14  6:11 [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: vf610: move device tree after kernel image Stefan Agner
2015-10-14  8:36 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2015-10-14  9:08   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2015-10-14 17:45   ` Stefan Agner [this message]
2015-10-14 18:41     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2015-10-14 12:39 ` Tom Rini
2015-10-14 16:05   ` Stefan Agner
2015-10-14 16:36     ` Tom Rini

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