[PATCHv2 2/3] ep8248e: Reference SMC parameter RAM base in the device tree.

Laurent Pinchart laurentp at cse-semaphore.com
Sat Mar 29 00:58:52 EST 2008


On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:39, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:10:33AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 17:59, Scott Wood wrote:
> > > This breaks the bootwrapper console.
> > 
> > And of course I forgot about that :-)
> > 
> > The boot wrapper code doesn't have any dpram allocator. Any objection against 
> > using a chunk of dpram at a fixed location ? What about at the beginning of 
> > the dpram ? The DTS muram node would then exclude a chunk of dpram at offset 
> > 0x0000 instead of 0x1100.
> 
> I'm not entirely comfortable with using a chunk outside of what's in the
> muram node, and assuming that it's for the SMC pram -- what if there's
> microcode or something there?
> 
> Since udbg is only for debugging, and is marked as potentially dangerous,
> how about just using the end of muram (as described in the device tree)? 
> If the muram is fully allocated, it won't happen until after the real
> serial console is initialized.

Very good idea. I'll prepare a new patch.

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