[U-Boot] U-Boot 2012.10 - pxa270 CPU Unknown / no turbo

Andreas Puls appu at gmx.net
Tue Nov 13 09:10:18 CET 2012


Hi together,

i've got another problem with latest stable U-Boot-2012.10 and a Toradex Colibri PXA270 V2.4

Uboot dosen't regonized the CPU Revision
u-boot summary screen:

U-Boot 2012.10 (Nov 12 2012 - 14:22:12)
CPU: Marvell PXA27x rev. Unknown

first lines of dmesg:
[    0.000000] CPU: XScale-PXA270 [69054118] revision 8 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f
[    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine: Toradex Colibri PXA270
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] Run Mode clock: 208.00MHz (*16)
[    0.000000] Turbo Mode clock: 520.00MHz (*2.5, inactive)
[    0.000000] Memory clock: 104.00MHz (/2)
[    0.000000] System bus clock: 104.00MHz

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : XScale-PXA270 rev 8 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 207.66
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp iwmmxt
CPU implementer : 0x69
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x411
CPU revision    : 8

Hardware        : Toradex Colibri PXA270
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000



With an old uboot from a third party vendor its working fine and the boot time is about half with the latest stable u-boot.

U-Boot 2010.06-dirty
CPU speed: 520000kHz; RCSR 00000001

first lines of dmesg:
[    0.000000] CPU: XScale-PXA270 [69054118] revision 8 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f
[    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine: Toradex Colibri PXA270
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] Run Mode clock: 208.00MHz (*16)
[    0.000000] Turbo Mode clock: 520.00MHz (*2.5, active)
[    0.000000] Memory clock: 208.00MHz (/2)
[    0.000000] System bus clock: 208.00MHz

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : XScale-PXA270 rev 8 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 519.37
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp iwmmxt
CPU implementer : 0x69
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x411
CPU revision    : 8

Hardware        : Toradex Colibri PXA270
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 00003600602d1400


Uboot-2012.10 was compiled with stock files and no modification.


Kind regards
  Andreas


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