improve the check for the memory size

This will hopefully fix bug #9360 and #9097 in trunk.

SVN-Revision: 33596

diff --git a/target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.3/192-MIPS-BCM47XX-improve-memory-size-detection.patch b/target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.3/192-MIPS-BCM47XX-improve-memory-size-detection.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..548178c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/brcm47xx/patches-3.3/192-MIPS-BCM47XX-improve-memory-size-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+--- a/arch/mips/bcm47xx/prom.c
++++ b/arch/mips/bcm47xx/prom.c
+@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+ /*
+  *  Copyright (C) 2004 Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
+  *  Copyright (C) 2007 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
++ *  Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
+  *
+  *  This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify it
+  *  under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published by the
+@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ static __init void prom_init_mem(void)
+ {
+       unsigned long mem;
+       unsigned long max;
++      unsigned long off, data, off1, data1;
+       struct cpuinfo_mips *c = &current_cpu_data;
+ 
+       /* Figure out memory size by finding aliases.
+@@ -77,15 +79,19 @@ static __init void prom_init_mem(void)
+        * max contains the biggest possible address supported by the platform.
+        * If the method wants to try something above we assume 128MB ram.
+        */
+-      max = ((unsigned long)(prom_init) | ((128 << 20) - 1));
++      off = (unsigned long)prom_init;
++      data = *(unsigned long *)prom_init;
++      off1 = off + 4;
++      data1 = *(unsigned long *)off1;
++      max = off | ((128 << 20) - 1);
+       for (mem = (1 << 20); mem < (128 << 20); mem += (1 << 20)) {
+-              if (((unsigned long)(prom_init) + mem) > max) {
++              if ((off + mem) > max) {
+                       mem = (128 << 20);
+                       printk(KERN_DEBUG "assume 128MB RAM\n");
+                       break;
+               }
+-              if (*(unsigned long *)((unsigned long)(prom_init) + mem) ==
+-                  *(unsigned long *)(prom_init))
++              if ((*(unsigned long *)(off + mem) == data) &&
++                      (*(unsigned long *)(off1 + mem) == data1))
+                       break;
+       }
+