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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] Revert "i.MX28: Enable additional DRAM address bits"
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 16:41:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201205031641.10748.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lil92v7o.fsf@lamuella.denx.de>

Dear Detlev Zundel,

> Hi Marek,
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> - Why was the change made in the first place and for what OOT port?
> > 
> > Change of a DRAM configuration register that enabled additional
> > address bit, at address 512MB of DRAM. Though this caused memory hole
> > on our M28 module with 256MB of DRAM, which _is_ mainline. X board is
> > OOT and never will be mainlined I guess.
> 
> I still do not understand this fully.  What exactly is this "memory
> hole" and why is it fatal?  As far as I can remember, there are always
> some holes in the adress map, so why is this special?

No, this one created this layout on our 256 MB module:

[chunk of memory][<- same thing][chunk of memory][<- same thing]

so get_ram_size() didn't work with it and it actually overwrote part of the U-
Boot etc.

> 
> Apart from that, I think most of these answers should go into the commit
> message to understand what is happening.

Agreed

> Thanks in advance
>   Detlev

Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 22:14 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] Revert "i.MX28: Enable additional DRAM address bits" Marek Vasut
2012-05-02 22:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] M28: Scan only first 512 MB of DRAM to avoid memory wraparound Marek Vasut
2012-05-02 22:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] i.MX28: Increase the delay after DRAM init Marek Vasut
2012-05-02 22:55   ` Fabio Estevam
2012-05-02 23:27     ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-03  8:12       ` Detlev Zundel
2012-05-03 13:31         ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-03 14:27           ` Detlev Zundel
2012-05-03 14:39             ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-03 15:34             ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-04  9:16               ` Detlev Zundel
2012-05-03  8:11 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] Revert "i.MX28: Enable additional DRAM address bits" Detlev Zundel
2012-05-03 13:36   ` Marek Vasut
2012-05-03 14:30     ` Detlev Zundel
2012-05-03 14:41       ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-05-04  9:15         ` Detlev Zundel

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