[U-Boot-Users] MPC8272ADS and uboot program check

[VanBaren, Gerald (AGRE)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Bastos
> Fernandez Alexandre
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:48 AM
> To: 'u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [U-Boot-Users] MPC8272ADS and uboot program check
>
>
> Hi to all,
>
> After some days working ok with my MPC8272ADS board, now it
> keeps rebooting
> all the time with a Program Check report. It has arrived after a hang.
>
> I have been checking the output as this is all the
> information i have at the
> moment. I have realized that clock reporting is incoherent
> (the true one is
> cpu_clk=400Mhz), so i wonder if it has any relation.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> The output I get is:
>
>
> U-Boot 1.0.0 (Jun 30 2004 - 20:20:47)
>
> MPC8272 Reset Status: Check Stop, External Soft, External Hard
>
> MPC8272 Clock Configuration
>  - Bus-to-Core Mult 4x, VCO Div 2, 60x Bus Freq  25-75 , Core
> Freq 100-300
>  - dfbrg 1, corecnf 0x0a, busdf 3, cpmdf 1, plldf 0, pllmf 3
>  - vco_out  400000000, scc_clk  100000000, brg_clk   25000000
>  - cpu_clk  400000000, cpm_clk  200000000, bus_clk  100000000
>
> CPU:   MPC8272 (HiP7 Rev 13, Mask 0.1 0K50M) at 18.382000 MHz
> Board: Motorola MPC8272ADS
> I2C:   ready
> DRAM:  64 MB

[garbage snipped]

> 8 MB
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
> pci init start-----pci init end
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> NIP: 03F968D8 XER: 20000000 LR: 03FB621C REGS: 03f3fdd8 TRAP:
> 0700 DAR:
> 03FB5374
> MSR: 00083002 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 1 ME: 1 IR/DR: 00
>
> GPR00: CCC0E043 03F3FEC8 E7FFFFFF 00000001 00000000 00000010 000003A0
> 000003C4
> GPR08: 00000264 B0FFFFFB 03FC86D0 001A6306 48002024 E7FFF3BF 03FC8000
> 058A0000
> GPR16: FBFF9F7B FF7FFFED 00000000 FE729328 00003002 00000001 00000000
> 03FA3098
> GPR24: 03FA390C 00000000 00000010 00000000 00000000 03F3FF64 00000020
> F0010D40
> Call backtrace:
> Program Check Exception

First of all, I would acknowleging that Wolfgang is probably right and you probably have a hardware problem.  In case that is not true, my follow-up questions and observations are...

#1 question in debugging: what changed between when it last worked and now?

Looking at the above, what is the software trying to do when all the garbage is being spewed out (just before it prints "8MB"?  What it is doing is likely related to the problem.

Did the board previously print the correct clock rate, or has it always been wrong?  Why is it wrong?

#1 rule in debugging: always fix the known bugs before hunting for the unknown, known (but discounted and ignored) bugs tend to cause additional "unknown bugs" in strange and mysterious ways.

gvb

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