Update SoC README to provide details of - Memory regions - Memory used by MC and Debug server
Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sha...@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabha...@freescale.com> --- Chanes for v2: New patch arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-lsch3/README | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-lsch3/README b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-lsch3/README index 37f07fb..3c15479 100644 --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-lsch3/README +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-lsch3/README @@ -9,6 +9,31 @@ Freescale LayerScape with Chassis Generation 3 This architecture supports Freescale ARMv8 SoCs with Chassis generation 3, for example LS2085A. +DDR Layout +============ +Entire DDR region splits into two regions. + - Region 1 is at address 0x8000_0000 to 0xffff_ffff. + - Region 2 is at 0x80_8000_0000 to the top of total memory, + for example 16GB, 0x83_ffff_ffff. + +All DDR memory is marked as cache-enabled. + +When MC and Debug server is enabled, they carve 512MB away from the high +end of DDR. For example, if the total DDR is 16GB, it shrinks to 15.5GB +with MC and Debug server enabled. Linux only sees 15.5GB. + +The reserved 512MB layout looks like + + +---------------+ <-- top/end of memory + | 256MB | debug server + +---------------+ + | 256MB | MC + +---------------+ + | ... | + +MC requires the memory to be aligned with 512MB, so even debug server is +not enabled, 512MB is reserved, not 256MB. + Flash Layout ============ -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
