Hi Rob,
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:28:22 -0500, Rob Herring robherring2@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/12/2012 04:47 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message 20120712233801.0411daa7@lilith you wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, yes U-Boot loads itself as high as it can, and I don't know about the FDT, but no, U-Boot does not "like" to load initrd "just below that": it loads initrd where the boot commands tell it to, and the boot commands are written by board developers. Nothing in U-Boot forces initrd to be loaded as high as possible.
u-boot loads the initrd where you tell it, then bootm relocates it for some reason.
That leaves the question of the FDT, though -- I'm not familiar enough with it (yet) to tell if it is always located just under U-Boot or if its placement is controllable by board commands.
You can always just set the "fdt_high" and "initrd_high" evironment variables to restrict the positioning of initrd and FDT in RAM; see the README for details.
Yes, I'm aware of all this, but this is not the default behavior and the default behavior will not work in this case. It also has another bug related to the relocation that I fixed:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg86475.html
Rob
As for the default behavior, this becomes a board config issue, not a U-Boot issue.
Regarding the patch, as a bugfix it will go in u-boot-arm/master for 2012.07.
With all this, do we have the overall issue covered?
Amicalement,