[U-Boot] [PATCH] 440spe MQ initialization

[Yuri Tikhonov]

Hello Prodyut,

On Tuesday, September 23, 2008 you wrote:

> Hi Stefan/Yuri,
> I looked at the changes. 
> I had already submitted the changes in an earlier patch. This code
> to set the PLB4 arbiter depth was moved to cpu_init_f function in
> cpu/ppc4xx/cpu_init.c since it is common across many processor families.
>  
> Please don't do the same thing again in the program_memory_queue function.

 Well, actually my patch doesn't have a deal with the PLB configuring, 
but with MQ only. So, it's OK here.

 But then another question arises: in Linux, in 
ppc440spe_configure_raid_devices(), beside the other things we do the 
following:

        /* Configure PLB as follows:
         * PLB: 0xDF000000. This means
         * - Priority level 00 fair priority,
         * - Priority level 01 fair priority,
         * - Priority level 11 fair priority,
         * - High Bus Utilization enabled,
         * - 4 Deep read pipe,
         * - 2 Deep write pipe.
         */
        mask = (1 << PLB_ACR_PPM0) | (1 << PLB_ACR_PPM1) | (1 << PLB_ACR_PPM3) |
               (1 << PLB_ACR_HBU) | ((3 & PLB_ACR_RDP_MSK) << PLB_ACR_RDP) |
               (1 << PLB_ACR_WRP);
        mtdcr(DCRN_PLB0_ACR, mask);
        mtdcr(DCRN_PLB1_ACR, mask);

 Is it OK, or should we remove these strings from the Linux driver, 
assuming U-Boot has already done this ?

 Thanks in advance,
 Yuri


> From: Stefan Roese [mailto:sr at denx.de]
> Sent: Tue 9/23/2008 2:43 AM
> To: Yuri Tikhonov
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Prodyut Hazarika; Olga Buchonina
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] 440spe MQ initialization

> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Yuri Tikhonov wrote:
>>  BTW, when I said "recommended by AMCC" in the patch description I
>> referred to the following information forwarded to me by Wolfgang
>> Denk on Tue Mar 18 2008:
>>
>> ---
>> Dear Yuri,
>>
>> here is some additional (and hopefully helpful) information from AMCC
>>
>> regarding the observed hangs on the katmai board:
>> > If possible, can you please check if you still see the lock up when
>> > you program MQ as follows:
>> > set value in HB and if you are using LL also as follows:
>> > MQ0_CF1H  = 0x80001C80
>> > MQ0_CF1L  =  0x80001C80
>> > Additionally, make sure that your PLB settings are:
>> > PLB0_ACR  = 0xDF000000 ( 4 deep read and 2 deep write)
>> > PLB1_ACR =  0xDF000000 ( 4 deep read and 2 deep write)
>> > Please let me know if this fixes the issue.
>> > I also would like to know how you are programming your DMA and how
>> > is the traffic is pipelined.
>> > Regards,
>> > Olga Buchonina
>> > AMCC PowerPC Applications Engineering

> Understood. I just would like to see an ACK from AMCC on this since they just
> updated this MQ init code.

> Best regards,
> Stefan

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