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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ARM: Use armlinux_bootparams address for DTB"
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 12:11:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807101159.GK26614@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375869342.153074079@f120.i.mail.ru>

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:55:42PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > This patch placed the flattened devicetree to armlinux_bootparams.
> > armlinux_bootparams normally is at SDRAM_START + 0x100. The kernels
> > initial page tables are normally at SDRAM_START + 0x4000, so the
> > flattened devicetree gets overwritten once it exceeds 0x3f00 bytes
> > which is quite common.
> > 
> > Revert this patch for now once a better solution can be found
> 
> In such a case, tree may be placed immediately after the kernel?
> It can also serve as an automatic option "ARM_APPENDED_DTB".

Did you actually stumbled over this problem? Normally the dtb is
allocated using malloc. The malloc region normally shouldn't overlap
with the kernels text region unless you are really tight of memory.
Was this on a clps711x?

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-07 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-07  9:45 Sascha Hauer
2013-08-07  9:55 ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-07 10:11   ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2013-08-07 10:34     ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-08  7:17       ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-09  6:58         ` Sascha Hauer
2013-08-09  7:02           ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-09  8:02             ` Sascha Hauer
2013-08-07 11:37   ` Maxime Ripard
2013-08-07 12:06     ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-08-07 12:40       ` Maxime Ripard

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