[PATCH v4 6/7] arm64: dts: allwinner: a100: reserve RAM for ATF

From: Alexander Sverdlin

Date: Fri Jun 05 2026 - 03:21:48 EST


Add reserved-memory node carving out Trusted Firmware-A region spanning
fixed 256K from physical address 0x40000000. Even though Allwinner ATF
itself passes the address range in the fdt to U-Boot, U-Boot currently
only reserves this memory internally, but doesn't carve out the region
in the fdt passed to Linux.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:
v4:
- new patch

arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a100.dtsi | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a100.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a100.dtsi
index 7cb06b19b5a5..d8391663fd1d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a100.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a100.dtsi
@@ -87,6 +87,22 @@ osc32k: osc32k-clk {
#clock-cells = <0>;
};

+ reserved-memory {
+ #address-cells = <2>;
+ #size-cells = <2>;
+ ranges;
+
+ /*
+ * 256 KiB reserved for Trusted Firmware-A (BL31).
+ * This is added by BL31 itself, but some bootloaders fail
+ * to propagate this into the DTB handed to kernels.
+ */
+ secmon@40000000 {
+ reg = <0x0 0x40000000 0x0 0x40000>;
+ no-map;
+ };
+ };
+
timer {
compatible = "arm,armv8-timer";
interrupts = <GIC_PPI 13
--
2.54.0