linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: meson: add BL32 reserved region to Beelink g12b devices

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Message-ID: <7h7daoyka3.fsf@baylibre.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:02:28 -0800
From:   Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
To:     Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@...il.com>,
        Furkan Kardame <furkan@...rdame.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: meson: add BL32 reserved region to
 Beelink g12b devices

Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@...il.com> writes:

> This resolves a long-running issue where Beelink GT-King/Pro and
> GS-King-X wedge on boot or shortly after when booting from vendor
> u-boot. In some distros the issue is often reported as triggered
> by large file transfers to/from USB or SD cards. Reserving the
> BL32 memory region prevents the issue.

The BL32 is typically common for the SoC family, so this change should
probably go into the g12b.dtsi.  Or probably even
meson-g12-common.dtsi, which is where the BL31 reserved-memory is
described.

Kevin