Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: amlogic: t7: khadas-vim4: fix memory layout for 8GB RAM
From: Ronald Claveau
Date: Fri Mar 06 2026 - 03:31:07 EST
On 3/6/26 4:10 AM, Nick Xie wrote:
> The Khadas VIM4 features 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM. The previous memory node
> mapped a single incorrect region. This caused the kernel to map MMIO
> and secure firmware (ATF/TrustZone) memory holes as standard RAM,
> leading to an Asynchronous SError Interrupt during early boot
> (paging_init) when the kernel attempted to clear those pages.
>
> Fix this by splitting the 8GB memory layout into three separate
> regions to properly avoid the memory holes (e.g., 0xe0000000 -
> 0xffffffff):
> - 3.5GB @ 0x000000000
> - 3.5GB @ 0x100000000
> - 1.0GB @ 0x200000000
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Xie <nick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
> index 25b478e106451..106eab2b4c2e2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/amlogic-t7-a311d2-khadas-vim4.dts
> @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ aliases {
>
> memory@0 {
> device_type = "memory";
> - reg = <0x0 0x0 0x2 0x0>; /* 8 GB */
> + reg = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xE0000000
> + 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xE0000000
> + 0x00000002 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x40000000>;
> };
>
I suggest to remove the leading zeroes here.
> reserved-memory {