[meta-xilinx] uboot CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE allocation error

[Mike Looijmans]

The RAM config in current u-boot is taken from the devicetree. Modify the 
"memory" node.

You should make a "reserved" RAM region instead of reducing the size.

On 01-12-16 08:39, Arno Steffens wrote:
> I switched from an older yocto u-boot (2015.01) to recent one (2016.01). Now I can't boot anymore:
>
> Zynq> boot
> QSPI: Kernel/Devicetree - NFS: rootfs
> SF: Detected S25FL128S_64K with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
> device 0 offset 0x4b0000, size 0x10000
> SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x4b0000 Read: OK
> device 0 offset 0x4c0000, size 0x380000
> SF: 3670016 bytes @ 0x4c0000 Read: OK
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02080000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-4.4.0-xilinx
>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>    Data Size:    3513736 Bytes = 3.4 MiB
>    Load Address: 00008000
>    Entry Point:  00008000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 02000000
>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x2000000
>    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
> ERROR: Failed to allocate 0x82a5 bytes below 0x0.
> device tree - allocation error
> FDT creation failed! hanging...### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
>
> --------
> My guess for reason of that is following, but I can't solve it.
>
> My board (based on MicroZed) has 512MB Ram, but 16MB are used for FPGA.
>
> I managed that before with
>  #ifndef __CONFIG_ZYNQ_MICROZED_H
>  #define __CONFIG_ZYNQ_MICROZED_H
>
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE		(1024 * 1024 * 1024)
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE		(496 * 1024 * 1024)
>
> In newer Uboot I can't find this definition not in that way. Nevertheless I added this line.
> (If not, that my last message is "Starting kernel ...")
>
> Although digging around, I couldn't find how nowadays this is handled. This seems memory size is not board-specific anymore. How it is handled?
>
> Thanks
>



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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