On 2/18/26 15:32, Tom Rini wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 03:18:37PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
On 2/18/26 15:12, Tom Rini wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 12:03:15PM +0530, Padmarao Begari wrote:
A 2 MB region of DDR memory is allocated for U‑Boot SPL, with the
heap starting at address 0x80000000 and the stack at 0x80200000.
However, U‑Boot fails when using OpenSBI v1.8 because OpenSBI begins
execution at 0x80100000, causing an overlap between the SPL stack
and the malloc region.
To resolve this conflict, the SPL heap and stack are moved to
higher memory addresses, and OpenSBI is relocated to 0x80000000.
The SPL heap now starts at 0x8C000000, and the stack is placed
at 0x8F000000. The MB-V requires at least 256MB of DDR to run U-Boot.
_________________
| |0x8FFFFFFF
|_______________|
| SPL- Stack |0x8F000000
| |
| |
| SPL - Heap |
|_______________|0x8C000000
| |
| |
| Full U-Boot |
|_______________|0x81200000
|Load FIT Image |
|_______________|0x80200000
| OpenSBI |
|_______________|0x80000000
Signed-off-by: Padmarao Begari <[email protected]>
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configs/xilinx_mbv32_defconfig | 4 ++--
configs/xilinx_mbv32_smode_defconfig | 2 +-
configs/xilinx_mbv64_smode_defconfig | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
As general feedback, this is something that ought to be in doc/board/
somewhere too. One such existing example is doc/board/ti/am62x_sk.rst
and follow-up patches are fine.
Just curious. Memory layout is something what every platform has to deal with.
Don't we have any script for it?
My still current preference is putting reasonable default values in
Kconfig, so that it's not something that has to be managed in defconfigs
as it's not typically on the developer to modify per board, but rather
on whomever is doing the upstream SoC/etc support to say what it is. But
that's also a little less true for FPGA platforms?
This platform is soft core as classic Microblaze is. Difference is pretty much
that this is risc-v based ISA. It means memory location is not fixed, memory
size is not fixed (because there will be users of openamp where small amount of
memory can be also used).
And IPs base is also moving from one design to another on the same board.
Anyway setup is that SPL is running from small memory - we can call it as OCM
which by default starts at 0 (but can be changed). And we got only 64kB of
memory that's why spl stack and heap need to be placed in DDR (which is already
configured). We had it at DDR start but it is not practical because after
handoff to opensbi that memory is unused.
That's why make sense to have opensbi at ddr start to use it fully.
Currently BSS is the part of OCM but I can imagine that we will move it to DDR
too to have more space for text/data/rodata. But the problem is the same how to
define BSS location.
I don't think this is going to be a problem to get it via tool machinery.
Thanks,
Michal
