[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] 86xx: Report which "bank" of NOR flash we are booting from on MPC8641HPCN
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Jul 21 19:42:37 CEST 2009
Dear Kumar Gala,
In message <1248193876-15362-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> The MPC8641HPCN board is capable of swizzling the upper address bit of
> the NOR flash we boot out of which creates the concept of "virtual"
> banks. This is useful in that we can flash a test of image of u-boot
> and reset to one of the virtual banks while still maintaining a
> working image in "bank 0".
>
> The PIXIS FPGA exposes registers on LBC which we can use to determine
> which "bank" we are booting out of (as well as setting which bank to
> boot out of).
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> * Moved from in8 -> in_8
> * used PIXIS_VBOOT instead of magic 0x16
...
> + if (vboot & 0x80)
> + printf ("vBank: %d\n", ((vboot >> 6) & 0x1));
Any reasons for not using some named constants instead of the magix
values 0x80 and 0x40 ?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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