Re: [PATCH v5] ARM: boot: Obtain start of physical memory from DTB

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:19:40PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 17:34, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, the start address of physical memory is obtained by masking
> > the program counter with a fixed mask of 0xf8000000.  This mask value
> > was chosen as a balance between the requirements of different platforms.
> > However, this does require that the start address of physical memory is
> > a multiple of 128 MiB, precluding booting Linux on platforms where this
> > requirement is not fulfilled.
> >
> > Fix this limitation by obtaining the start address from the DTB instead,
> > if available (either explicitly passed, or appended to the kernel).
> > Fall back to the traditional method when needed.
> >
> > This allows to boot Linux on r7s9210/rza2mevb using the 64 MiB of SDRAM
> > on the RZA2MEVB sub board, which is located at 0x0C000000 (CS3 space),
> > i.e. not at a multiple of 128 MiB.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is ready to go into the patch system, no?
> 
> The sooner Russell picks it up, the sooner I can respin my patches
> that go on top.

This seems to be a particularly risky change (it's already been subject
to various failures for people) so I do not intend to rush to pick it
up.

In any case, Masahiro Yamada has resubmitted a patch to sort out the
libfdt builds that he's been trying to get merged for some time now,
so I'm going to be giving that priority. Your change conflicts with
this libfdt build change.

So, I think all in all, it needs to spend a bit longer being provenly
tested before I merged it (and eventually fixed up for the libfdt
change), and I don't think merging it so it appears in linux-next
will help with that.

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