linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: meson-gxl: Add alternate ARM Trusted Firmware reserved memory zone

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 09:39:51 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, carlo@...one.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM64: dts: meson-gxl: Add alternate ARM Trusted
 Firmware reserved memory zone

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 03:33:25PM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com> writes:
> 
> > This year, Amlogic updated the ARM Trusted Firmware reserved memory mapping
> > for Meson GXL SoCs and products sold since May 2017 uses this alternate
> > reserved memory mapping.
> > But products had been sold using the previous mapping.
> >
> > This issue has been explained in [1] and a dynamic solution is yet to be
> > found to avoid loosing another 3Mbytes of reservable memory.
> >
> > In the meantime, this patch adds this alternate memory zone only for
> > the GXL and GXM SoCs since GXBB based new products stopped earlier.
> >
> > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-October/004860.html
> >
> > Fixes: bba8e3f42736 ("ARM64: dts: meson-gx: Add firmware reserved memory zones")
> > Reported-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
> 
> I missed the Fixes tag on this one, but it's now commit 4ee8e51b9edf upstream.
> 
> Please apply to stable v4.10+

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h