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<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm porting u-boot to support the EP852T board of Embedded Planet(BUS @ 50MHz) .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I saw that there is no reference for using this specific kind of board , but only u-boot for RPXLite board .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I encountered a problem to configure the u-boot correctly to support memory operation for this board .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The EP 852T board uses a 8MB flash on CS0 (two chips of AMD - AM29LV320B, each is 4MB) and Micron SDRAM(</FONT><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">MT48LC4M32B2</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">) of 16MB on CS1 .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Does CFG_MAX_FLASH_SECT 71(the num of sectors in one AMD chip) includes both chips ?</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Which means does the u-boot/cpu see a 1 big flash of 8MB 32 bits bus with doubled size sector? instead of a 64KB size sectors(in a single AMD chip), a 128KB size </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> sectors?</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. According to the EP852T board user manual, the 8MB flash base address starts at 0xff800000 (=CFG_FLASH_BASE) .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I configured: </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_FLASH_BASE 0xff800000</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_MONITOR_BASE CFG_FLASH_BASE</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_BR0_PRELIM 0xff800001 (in order to support base address 0xff800000 for 8MB Flash size)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_OR0_PRELIM 0xff800140 (OR Address mask of 0xff8000 for 8MB flash @50MHz)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. The SDRAM configuration :</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> SDRAM_BASE_PRELIM 0x00000000 /* SDRAM base */</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> SDRAM_MAX_SIZE 0x01000000 /* max 16 MB */</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM <B> 0xfc000000</B></FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM 0x00000E00</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_OR1_PRELIM ( CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM | CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM )</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> CFG_BR1_PRELIM ((SDRAM_BASE_PRELIM & BR_BA_MSK) | BR_MS_UPMA | BR_V ) (=0x00000081)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The problems i encountered :</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Although the flash prelim and mask are conifgured as defined in the EP board manual, when running the u-boot flash_get_size() </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> it fails on reading Manufacturer ID.</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> When i bypass the flash_get_size and choose manually, in the code, the AM29LV320B flash and its sectors(71) and size(8MB),</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> later, in the u-boot monitor i cannot erase the flash (none of the u-boot erase options work), but i can only read its sectors content .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> i also see that most of its sectors are detected as protected :(using the "flinfo" command)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Bank # 1: AMD AM29LV320B (32 Mbit, bottom boot sect)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Size: 8 MB in 71 Sectors</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Sector Start Addresses:</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FF800000 FF804000 FF808000 FF80C000 FF810000 </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FF814000 FF818000 FF81C000 FF820000 FF840000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FF860000 (RO) FF880000 (RO) FF8A0000 (RO) FF8C0000 (RO) FF8E0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FF900000 (RO) FF920000 (RO) FF940000 (RO) FF960000 (RO) FF980000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FF9A0000 (RO) FF9C0000 (RO) FF9E0000 (RO) FFA00000 (RO) FFA20000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFA40000 (RO) FFA60000 (RO) FFA80000 (RO) FFAA0000 (RO) FFAC0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFAE0000 (RO) FFB00000 (RO) FFB20000 (RO) FFB40000 (RO) FFB60000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFB80000 (RO) FFBA0000 (RO) FFBC0000 (RO) FFBE0000 (RO) FFC00000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFC20000 (RO) FFC40000 (RO) FFC60000 (RO) FFC80000 (RO) FFCA0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFCC0000 (RO) FFCE0000 (RO) FFD00000 (RO) FFD20000 (RO) FFD40000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFD60000 (RO) FFD80000 (RO) FFDA0000 (RO) FFDC0000 (RO) FFDE0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFE00000 (RO) FFE20000 (RO) FFE40000 (RO) FFE60000 (RO) FFE80000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFEA0000 (RO) FFEC0000 (RO) FFEE0000 (RO) 01010101 (RO) 01010101 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 01F40000 (RO) FFF60000 (RO) FFF80000 (RO) FFFA0000 (RO) FFFC0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> FFFE0000 (RO)</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. The second problem i have is with the SDRAM operation .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> The SDRAM seems to work(read and write are possible) only when i use CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM 0xfc000000,</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> although CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM should be configured to 0xff000000 , for 16MB SDRAM OR mask .</FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thanks in advance, </FONT></P>
<P DIR=LTR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Moshiko</FONT></P>
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