Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-05-06 Thread ags
Thanks for the reply. I mostly wanted to verify that my understanding of dt is correct, and this was confusing. I was also hoping to learn something new (why was the specification in the .dtb file no consistent with the actual memory being used) - which you've helped with by pointing out the

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-05-04 Thread robert.berger
@ags: u-boot reads the fdt, probes stuff, adds things to the fdt, modifies things in the fdt and passes this modified version on the GNU/Linux kernel. Assuming you configured your kernel correctly you can inspect the fdt in runtime. I did this on a beagle bone black (with the wrong memory

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-05-03 Thread ags
Can anyone explain how/why the dtc specification of memory size is not being used, and/or where the actual size is coming from? On Friday, April 25, 2014 10:02:40 PM UTC-7, ags wrote: Not necessarily an issue. Originally I was wondering if only half of available physical memory was being

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-05-03 Thread Robert Nelson
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, ags alfred.g.schm...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone explain how/why the dtc specification of memory size is not being used, and/or where the actual size is coming from? u-boot... Would you feel more comfortable if i patch the am335x-boneblack.dtb to the correct

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-25 Thread ags
Not necessarily an issue. Originally I was wondering if only half of available physical memory was being made available. Still, I'd like to understand why the device tree bindings indicate 256 MB memory, yet it appears that the full 512 MB are available. On Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:23:51 AM

[beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-24 Thread ags
Any suggestions on where to look next to figure out what's going on here? Seems that either something other than the device tree in file /boot/am335x-boneblack.dts is being read at boot, or there is something else that is overriding later on, or a boot parameter... or the memory

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-24 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:13 AM, ags alfred.g.schm...@gmail.com wrote: Any suggestions on where to look next to figure out what's going on here? Seems that either something other than the device tree in file /boot/am335x-boneblack.dts is being read at boot, or there is something else that is

[beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-20 Thread robert.berger
Hi, I don't have access to my lab at the moment, so I can not try it myself, but can you rebuild a fdt and make a change in am335x-bone-common.dtsi? Please also do: cat /proc/meminfo before and after the change? Just search for memory and replace it with: memory {

[beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-20 Thread ags
I don't see a dtsi in /boot. I did dtc -I dtb -O dts -o test.dts /boot/am335x-boneblack.dtb. Looking at test.dts I still see memory {... reg = 0x8000 0x1000 }; However, cat /proc/meminfo returns a first line of MemTotal: 510600 kB which seems OK - I suppose. It looks like

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-20 Thread Robert Berger
Hi, On 04/20/2014 08:03 PM, ags wrote: I don't see a dtsi in /boot. I did dtc -I dtb -O dts -o test.dts /boot/am335x-boneblack.dtb. Looking at test.dts I still see memory {... reg = 0x8000 0x1000 }; However, cat /proc/meminfo returns a first line of MemTotal: 510600 kB which seems OK

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Is memory spec in dts shipped with BBB A6A Angstrom 3.8.13 wrong?

2014-04-20 Thread ags
On Sunday, April 20, 2014 1:05:03 PM UTC-7, robert.berger wrote: Which kernel version do you use? The original installed on flash (shipped in Jan/Feb this year): I have BBB A6A running Angstrom distro: Linux beaglebone 3.8.13 #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 09:09:32 CEST 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux -- For