Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: meson: add BL32 reserved region to Beelink g12b devices

From: Christian Hewitt
Date: Tue Jan 25 2022 - 00:46:02 EST


>
> On 25 Jan 2022, at 12:02 am, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> This resolves a long-running issue where Beelink GT-King/Pro and
>> GS-King-X wedge on boot or shortly after when booting from vendor
>> u-boot. In some distros the issue is often reported as triggered
>> by large file transfers to/from USB or SD cards. Reserving the
>> BL32 memory region prevents the issue.
>
> The BL32 is typically common for the SoC family, so this change should
> probably go into the g12b.dtsi. Or probably even
> meson-g12-common.dtsi, which is where the BL31 reserved-memory is
> described.

Hi Kevin,

Would you be okay with the same change applied to GX devices too? - I
normally have these two catch-all patches in my tree to deal with random
tv box hardware and it would be great to drop them:

https://github.com/chewitt/linux/commit/4315ea4612389fc08d0a008b562cafbda96374fc
https://github.com/chewitt/linux/commit/3c0df794baa7ea9d32d8ad54530b5a056c770ea9

Christian