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

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Message-Id: <3A7E4C5F-AECB-4A3E-B074-E2E3419DD749@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:03:09 +0400
From:   Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@...il.com>
To:     Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     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,
        Furkan Kardame <furkan@...rdame.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: meson: add BL32 reserved region to
 Beelink g12b devices

> 
> On 25 Jan 2022, at 12:02 am, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Hi Kevin,

Would you be okay with the same change applied to GX devices too? - I
normally have these two catch-all patches in my tree to deal with random
tv box hardware and it would be great to drop them:

https://github.com/chewitt/linux/commit/4315ea4612389fc08d0a008b562cafbda96374fc
https://github.com/chewitt/linux/commit/3c0df794baa7ea9d32d8ad54530b5a056c770ea9

Christian