> On Oct 5, 2016, at 11:57 PM, Uwe Kleine-König <u...@kleine-koenig.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > On 10/05/2016 10:54 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> I believe it actually requires u-boot to initialize ram timings and >> various other parameters. You can trick the kernel into using more > > Right, the kernel expects the boot loader to initialize RAM. I don't > know about u-boot, but barebox edits the dtb that is passed to the > kernel on the fly to contain the right description for all RAM it > initialized. > >> It would of course be useful to experiment with alternative methods, but >> my guess is getting proper patches into u-boot may likely be the >> simplest approach. It just takes some work. > > So another not too hard possibility is to port barebox to your board :-) > (This should really be easy, the i.MX6 is well supported in barebox, and > because barebox probes itself from a device tree that already exists it > should be really easy.)
I don’t have the skills to participate in the porting, but I’ve got two Cubox-I4 devices, one with 2GB, one with 4GB RAM that I can use for testing, if somebody else wants to try. Enjoy! Rick
