[U-Boot-Users] Format of MMUCSR0 on 8540

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 18 16:42:32 CET 2005


On Nov 18, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Charles J Gillan wrote:

>
> I downloaded U-boot from CVS on Nov 14th and have compiled
> and run this on a TQM8540 board (with a Rev 2 MPC8540 chip).
>
> However, I started stepping through this with the CodeWarrior
> debugger (and a FreeScale USB TAP - COP version) find that
> the "isync" in the
> following code from start.S is actually causing Interrupt 14
> to be executed (TLBInstructionException).
>
> 	/*
> 	 * Invalidate MMU L1/L2
> 	 *
> 	 * Note: There is a fixup earlier for Errata CPU4 on
> 	 * Rev 1 parts that must precede this MMU invalidation.
> 	 */
> 	li	r2, 0x001e
> 	mtspr	MMUCSR0, r2
> 	isync  <------------------- Interrupt
>
> Without CodeWarrior, I do eventually see the U-Boot command
> line appear on the serial port (however it did take several seconds
> after power on, more than I expected).
>
> Checking the 8540RM manual, I see that there appear to be only two
> bits that need to be set to invalidate cache (page 633 on MMUCSR0).
>
> Can anyone on the explain the presence of
>
>        0x001e
>
> as opposed to
>
>        0x0006
>
> in the above code?

It's flash invalidating ALL of the TLB arrays.  A value of 0x6 will  
only do the L2 arrays.

> Any suggestions as to why this exception arises. Has anyone seen it  
> with
> An Abatron BDI2000 or not - as the case may be.

Can you see what's in the following registers, ESR, SRR0, SRR1?

Also, if I remember correctly there are some patches to u-boot for it  
to work properly with the CodeWarrior JTAG debuggers.

- kumar




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