Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board

[Ben Dooks]

On 03/11/2020 15:07, Atish Patra wrote:
> > > We could just modify the reg size but to allow more memory. I tried
> > > that for Linux but it didn't boot.
> > > Probably, DDR init code in HSS only initialized 1GB of memory.
> > Yes, it is only looking at the low window which is 1GiB max.
> > If it used the upper window it would get the 16GiB.
> >
> > I don't know how no-one noticed this issue before shipping a board
> > out with this. I have updated the firmware on my second board but
> > this only seems to currently fix a reboot issue with the eMMC.
> We can't update the DT for Linux until there is a public release of
> the updated firmware
> with 2GB enabled.

Yeah, it is really annoying the boards turned up with a number of
issues including the half memory.

I assume there will be a new release of HSS and U-boot which at
worse can insert new memory nodes into the device tree.

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