On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 03:50 +0900, Grant Likely wrote:
Regardless of this patch, the pandaboard uboot still needs to be
fixed. Setting an fdt_high variable is useful for debug, but it is not
a fix.
Then someone needs to own the issue of stopping the current u-boot default behavior of relocating the initrd and fdt to the end of RAM when an fdt is present. This is an issue for any Linux ARM system with more than 3/4GB of RAM, and probably for other 32-bit architectures. The logic that causes the problem is in architecture-independent code, and I'm not sure I'm necessarily the right guy to go rummaging around in there. There are too many implications for any other currently supported targets that use u-boot and fdt.
This new u-boot environment variable stands on it's own as potentially useful, and allows us to avoid the problem (admittedly by specifying environment variable values that really should be the default in this case).