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| author | Simon Glass <[email protected]> | 2025-09-27 05:30:15 -0600 |
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| committer | Peter Robinson <[email protected]> | 2025-11-25 09:22:12 +0000 |
| commit | 15c719174cf30c4ef1c5a3638156db8c318fbd18 (patch) | |
| tree | c67cfc21b00fed1dfd74852f689b46947d1a7db0 /doc/develop/bootstd/extlinux.rst | |
| parent | 2c39d975f87cfcce3805bff34918708bf7491b25 (diff) | |
rpi: Use the U-Boot control FDT for fdt_addr
The fdt_addr variable is used in extlinux as a fallback devicetree if
none is provided by the boot command. Otherwise the only use in U-Boot
seems to me efi_install_fdt() when the internal FDT is required.
The existing mechanism uses the devicetree provided to U-Boot, but in
its original, unrelocated position. In my testing on an rpi_4, this ends
up at 2b35ef00 which is not a convenient place in memory, if the ramdisk
is large.
U-Boot already deals with this sort of problem by relocating the FDT
to a safe address.
So use the control-FDT address instead.
Remove the existing comment, which is confusing, since the FDT is not
actually passed unmodified to the kernel: U-Boot adds various things
using its FDT-fixup mechanism.
Note that board_get_usable_ram_top() reduces the RAM top for boards with
less RAM. This behaviour is left unchanged as there is no other
mechanism for U-Boot to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christopher Obbard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> # CM4 1G
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