[U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Add optional dma transfers to mtest

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Wed Jul 1 17:59:47 CEST 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:21 -0500, Peter Tyser wrote:
> This series tries to add a DMA memory test to the mtest tests.  The
> DMA test performs bursts to SDRAM which can be useful in stressing memory
> and can be difficult to produce reliably in certain circumstances (eg
> running with data caches disabled).
> 
> It can be enabled on 85xx and 86xx boards by defining CONFIG_FSL_DMA,
> CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST, and CONFIG_SYS_DMA_MEMTEST.
> 
> Other platforms will need to support the dmacpy() function in order to
> enable the DMA memory test.

Is there any interest in this feature, or any chance it will be merged?
If so, I'll clean it up a bit and resubmit.

Thanks,
Peter



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