[PATCH] PowerPC 440EPx/GRx fix memory size calculation

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 12 19:12:29 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:05 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> 
> Both is possible. Older U-Boot versions only passed the bd_t struct to the 
> kernel. For those U-Boot's the wrapper is needed. More recent U-Boot versions 
> support passing a device-tree blob to the kernel. U-Boot patches the correct 
> memory size in this blob.
> 
> As a matter of fact, I never used the wrapper before. U-Boot supports passing 
> the device-tree blob to Linux since quite some time now.

Yes, that's also how I use it on canyonlands... now, the wrapper could
probably be used to look at the bd_t anyways, no ? Either get the mem
size from there or some flag or version in there can indicate if it's
been "fixed".

Ben.





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