[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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