Re: BigRamPlus arrived
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Michael Schmitz
<schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why not? Those address ranges are defined in the offical Amiga Hardware
>>>> Reference Manual and are standardized for Amiga. For other subarchs
>>>> this is
>>>
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>> a totally different matter, of course.
>>>
>>>
>>> And maybe someone will want to put extra memory into other subarchs,
>>> too… I just learned the hard way that hardcoding is often undesirable
>>> (though softcoding may be too much, sometimes, too).
>>
>>
>> Do you want m68k to move to device trees?
>> Then we can put all types of memory at the right spot in the tree,
>> and derive the priorities from the bus topology.
>
> Might be cleanest - please bump the bootinfo version in that case so we can
> fall back to some default logic if the device tree is absent.
Oops, I forgot to insert the obligatory smiley.
I don't think it's worth the effort to add DT support for the existing
platforms.
If we *have* to, we can handle it in a boot wrapper. All information is in the
existing bootinfo and arch/m68k/<mach>/config.c.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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