topic Re: How to define reserved memory in device tree? in i.MX Processors

How to define reserved memory in device tree?

trongthinh — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 01:23:40 GMT

I am using iMX8MQ evk. I found that in file fsl-imx8mq-evk-m4.dts has some declaration for reserved memory that is used for Cortex M4.

reserved-memory {
   #address-cells = <2>;
   #size-cells = <2>;
   ranges;
   m4_reserved: m4@0x80000000 {
         no-map;
         reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0x1000000>;
   };
};

What does reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0x1000000> mean?

Re: How to define reserved memory in device tree?

b36401 — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:26:48 GMT

You do not need to change original files.
You need to go to your build directory in <kernel_source>/arch/arm/boot/dts and find all the dtb sources (.dts and .dtsi).
Here you can place your new .dts file like myfile.dts and make your new .dtb with following commands:

# cd <Kernel_source>
# make myfile.dtb

So you get your dtb file in <kernel_source>/arch/arm/boot/dts/myfile.dtb file

Or you can use the dtc directly:

# cd <Kernel_source>/scripts/dtc
# dtc -I dts -O dtb -o <output_folder>/myfile.dtb ../../arch/arm/boot/dts/myfile.dts

Have a great day,
Victor

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Re: How to define reserved memory in device tree?

trongthinh — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 06:46:08 GMT

Thank for your hint. My question is "What does reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0x1000000> mean?"

Does it mean reserved-mem is 16MB and begins from address 0x80000000?