[U-Boot] [PATCH] armv8/ls1043a: Add the OCRAM initialization

york sun york.sun at nxp.com
Mon Nov 7 19:36:38 CET 2016


On 10/27/2016 02:47 AM, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> Hi York,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: york sun
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:09 PM
>> To: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson at nxp.com>; Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha at nxp.com>; Pratiyush
>> Srivastava <pratiyush.srivastava at nxp.com>; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu at nxp.com>
>> Cc: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou at freescale.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] armv8/ls1043a: Add the OCRAM initialization
>>
>> On 10/24/2016 09:30 PM, Calvin Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>>>> I wonder why we don't see ECC errors before this patch. We have
>>>>>> LS1043A boots on NAND, SD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OCRAM has a requirement of initializing before first time "read".
>>>>> If user reads OCRAM before **initializing**; ECC error will come.  (u-boot is not handling this error for now).
>>>>>
>>>>> I can only guess the reason of not seeing this error as OCRAM never read before any write.
>>>>> Even in case of Stack, data is first written and then read.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a case you want to read from OCRAM before writing anything to it? Why don't we need to do so for SPL or
>> LSCH3?
>>>
>>> This issue will be seen ONLY in secure boot. It was reproduced on LS1043A also.
>>>
>>
>> How about LSCH3? We have LS2080A secure boot.
>
> I don't know about LS2080A. Prabhakar or Ruchika(copied) may be able to comment on this.
>

Please follow up on this thread. We need to understand when and where 
OCRAM needs to be cleared.

York



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