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
next prev parent 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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