[U-Boot] ARM POST Tests.

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Fri Jul 15 10:13:16 CEST 2011


Hello sreekumar.sivakumar,

sreekumar.sivakumar at wipro.com wrote:
> I am new to u-boot code. I had a requirement for running memory, cpu and
> cache tests as part of diagnostics, on an ARM based platform. After
> going through the code, I found that only PPC variants are available for
> cpu and cache post tests.
> 1) Is that a limitation, or Is it some sort of misunderstanding on my
> side?

Actually nobody used it on arm

> 2) If NO, Is there a branch or patch I can pickup which will have ARM
> POST tests for cache and cpu?

Try this patches (I actually worked on getting POST tests running
on an davinci based board):

- get CONFIG_POST working for arm boards:
[PATCH] post, memorytest: fix if vstart is not = 0x0
        http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/98127/
[PATCH v2] post, memorytest: add support for none powerpc archs
        http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/98522/
[PATCH] post, memory test: add memory_post_test() to include file
        http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/98126/
[PATCH 1/2] arm, lib/board.c: Coding Style cleanup
        http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/98532/
	update:
	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/104755/
[PATCH 2/2] arm, lib/board.c: use gd->ram_size instead of bd->bi_memsize
        http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/98531/

bye,
Heiko
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