On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 04:50:16PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The rpi3b device tree specifies 1G of RAM in the memory node, but maps
> the highest 16M of RAM's physical address range for peripheral use.
>
> When support for device tree probing was first added for the rpi3b
> in e8fab18835a1 ("ARM: rpi: switch to DT probe and multi-image build"),
> it had a memory { } node overriding the kernel node size with 0, so the
> size is computed later correctly.
>
> 1dc748b3b202 ("dts: update to v5.1-rc1") came and renamed the upstream
> memory { } node to memory@0. So instead of overriding the old, we
> now created a second dummy along with the broken node.
> barebox did only parse the dummy, so it continued to limp along.
>
> 8226f7f90973 ("of: base: parse all available memory nodes") started
> considering both nodes and rendered barebox v2020.05.0 unable to start
> up on the rpi3b because of the conflict between RAM range and peripherals
> like the bcm2835_mbox caused by parsing the broken memory node.
>
> At least one board also was broken for the same reason[1], so a more
> robust approach is in order. For nodes that lack a phandle, the
> &{/path} syntax can be used instead. This has the benefit that should
> the path disappear in future, a compile failure would result.
>
> [1] 0d26ce1c11a1 ("ARM: Phytec phyFLEX i.MX6: delete wrong memory node")
>
> Fixes: 1dc748b3b202 ("dts: update to v5.1-rc1")
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks
Sascha
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