Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845-db845c: Mark cont splash memory region as reserved

From: Amit Pundir
Date: Fri Jun 16 2023 - 02:53:28 EST


On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 22:56, Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15.06.2023 16:27, Amit Pundir wrote:
> > Adding a reserved memory region for the framebuffer memory
> > (the splash memory region set up by the bootloader).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2: Updated commit message.
> >
> > There was some dicussion on v1 but it didn't go anywhere,
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20230124182857.1524912-1-amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u.
> > The general consensus is that this memory should be freed and be
> > made resuable but that (releasing this piece of memory) has been
> > tried before and it is not trivial to return the reserved memory
> > node to the system RAM pool in this case.
> >
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-db845c.dts | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-db845c.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-db845c.dts
> > index e14fe9bbb386..10a06ee8e262 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-db845c.dts
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845-db845c.dts
> > @@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ hdmi_con: endpoint {
> > };
> > };
> >
> > + reserved-memory {
> > + /* Cont splash region set up by the bootloader */
> > + cont_splash_mem: framebuffer@9d400000 {
> > + reg = <0x0 0x9d400000 0x0 0x2400000>;
> > + no-map;
> > + };
> > + };
> &mdss {
> memory-region = <&cont_splash_mem>;
> };
>
> ?

Thank you. Updated in v3.

>
> Konrad
> > +
> > lt9611_1v8: lt9611-vdd18-regulator {
> > compatible = "regulator-fixed";
> > regulator-name = "LT9611_1V8";