From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] katmai: change default config
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:09:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811211109.18806.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811141619.19188.yur@emcraft.com>
On Friday 14 November 2008, Yuri Tikhonov wrote:
> Hello,
>
Please remove this "Hello," from the commit text next time.
> This patch enables support for EXT2, and increases the
> CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ size for the default configuration
> of the katmai boards to use them as the RAID-reference
> AMCC setups.
>
> EXT2 enabling allows one to boot kernels from the EXT2
> formatted Compact Flash cards.
>
> CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ increasing allows one to boot the
> Linux kernels, which use PAGE_SIZE of 256KB. Otherwise,
> the memory area with DTB file (which is placed at the
> end of the bootmap area) will turn out to be overlapped
> with the BSS segment of the 256KB kernel, and zeroed
> in early_init() of Linux.
>
> Actually, increasing of the bootmap size could be done
> via setting of the bootm_size U-Boot variable, but it looks
> like the current U-Boot implementation have some bootm_size-
> related functionality lost. In many places through the U-Boot
> code the CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ definition is used directly
> (instead of trying to read the corresponding value from the
> environment). The same is truth for the boot_jump_linux()
> function in lib_ppc/bootm.c, where U-Boot transfers control
> to Linux passing the CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ (not bootm_size)
> value to the booting kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Applied to 4xx/master. Thanks.
Best regards,
Stefan
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2008-11-14 13:19 [U-Boot] [PATCH] katmai: change default config Yuri Tikhonov
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