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Diffstat (limited to 'lib_ppc/board.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib_ppc/board.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib_ppc/board.c b/lib_ppc/board.c index 3038302..5e6e1e6 100644 --- a/lib_ppc/board.c +++ b/lib_ppc/board.c @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ void board_init_f (ulong bootflag) * relocate the code and continue running from DRAM. * * Reserve memory at end of RAM for (top down in that order): + * - area that won't get touched by U-Boot and Linux (optional) * - kernel log buffer * - protected RAM * - LCD framebuffer @@ -436,6 +437,18 @@ void board_init_f (ulong bootflag) */ len = (ulong)&_end - CFG_MONITOR_BASE; + /* + * Subtract specified amount of memory to hide so that it won't + * get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By fixing up gd->ram_size + * the Linux kernel should now get passed the now "corrected" + * memory size and won't touch it either. This should work + * for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux board ports in + * arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support, that recalculate the + * memory size from the SDRAM controller setup will have to + * get fixed. + */ + gd->ram_size -= CFG_MEM_TOP_HIDE; + #ifndef CONFIG_MAX_MEM_MAPPED #define CONFIG_MAX_MEM_MAPPED (256 << 20) #endif |