From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:36:42 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: vf610: move device tree after kernel image In-Reply-To: <1444803105-3312-1-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch> References: <1444803105-3312-1-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch> Message-ID: <20151014103642.1f2a62f5@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Stefan, On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:11:45 -0700, Stefan Agner wrote: > Since the device tree relocation is disabled (fdt_high set to > 0xffffffff), U-Boot keeps the device tree at its load address > 0x81000000. The kernel uncompresses itself to 0x80008000 by > default, hence this limits the maximum (uncompressed) kernel > size to somewhat below 16MiB, otherwise the device tree gets > overwritten by the kernel data... > > Move the device tree load address to 0x84000000 to avoid that > the device tree being overwritten by the kernel. OOC, why is device tree relocation disabled? I'm asking because by manually placing the device tree (or anything else) high in DDR, one runs the risk of overwriting some of U-Boot's data. Amicalement, -- Albert.