[U-Boot-Users] 83xx address translation: is it really necessary?

Jeff Mann MannJ at embeddedplanet.com
Mon Aug 7 17:28:38 CEST 2006


>I'm adding support for a new 83xx board, the 8349E-mITX.  For some
reason, turning on address translation causes the board to halt.

>enable_addr_trans:
>	/* enable address translation */
>	mfmsr	r5
>	ori	r5, r5, (MSR_IR | MSR_DR)
>	mtmsr	r5
>	isync
>	blr

>As soon as the mtmsr is executed, everything stops.

I also have this problem. Skipping address translation solves this
problem. I also wonder, "why do we enable address translation at all?"\

-J.Mann




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