[U-Boot] DRAM test problem

Alemao xcarandiru at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 00:07:33 CEST 2009


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Scott Wood<scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:39:26PM -0300, Alemao wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've made ports of u-boot for two powerpc processors, MPC8343 and
>> MPC8541.
>>
>> The boards has 128MB of DDR2. So I enabled CFG_DRAM_TEST in 127MB
>> of those memories, and I got two scenarios:
>>
>> MPC8343(ddr_clk = 264 MHz): test tooks 1min 35sec
>>
>> MPC8541(ddr_clk = 333 MHz): test tooks 5 sec
>>
>> Note: memories get ddr_clk / 2
>>
>> Make sense?
>> Is this cause MPC85xx family has L2 cache?
>> Or cause ddr_clk? Or my port has problems in DDR configuration?
>>
>> Im using Micron DDR2 memory, MT47H32M16HR-3:F, with CL = 3 for both ports.
>
> I believe data cache is disabled on 83xx in u-boot.
>
> -Scott
>

So the time for MPC8343 makes sense??? It tooks that long?

Data cache/instruction cache is inside e300c1 core, u-boot still have
to enable/support it?

Any hint how could I do it in 83xx family?

Im loosing a lot of performance and all boards needs to pass this test
before goes out...

Cheers,

--
Alemao


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