The commit message of a28afca (Add uboot "fdt_high" enviroment variable)
states that fdt_high behaves similarly to the existing initrd_high.
But fdt_high actually has an outstanding difference from initrd_high.
The former specifies the start address, while the later specifies the
end address.
As fdt_high and initrd_high will likely be used together, it'd be nice
to have them behave same. The patch changes the behavior of fdt_high
to have it aligned with initrd_high.
The document of fdt_high in README is updated with an example to
demonstrate the usage of this environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn....@linaro.org>
---
Changes since v1:
* Update document of fdt_high with an example to demonstrate the usage
README | 8 ++++++++
common/image.c | 6 ++----
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index ff72e47..1c3713c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3619,6 +3619,14 @@ List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
+ For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
+ at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
+ only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
+ may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
+ device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
+ of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
+ access it during the boot procedure.
+
If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
to work it must reside in writable memory, have
diff --git a/common/image.c b/common/image.c
index 77ca6e4..12ceacf 100644
--- a/common/image.c
+++ b/common/image.c
@@ -1294,10 +1294,8 @@ int boot_relocate_fdt(struct lmb *lmb, char
**of_flat_tree, ulong *of_size)
if (desired_addr) {
of_start =
(void *)(ulong) lmb_alloc_base(lmb, of_len, 0x1000,
- ((ulong)
- desired_addr)
- + of_len);
- if (desired_addr && of_start != desired_addr) {
+ (ulong)desired_addr);
+ if (of_start == 0) {
puts("Failed using fdt_high value for Device
Tree");
goto error;
}
--
1.7.4.1
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