[U-Boot] RAM Probing for ads5121rev4

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Mar 31 23:05:38 CEST 2009


Dear "Michele De Candia (VT)",

In message <49D23E30.4060205 at valueteam.com> you wrote:
>
> The issue concerns the possibility to identify DDR chips type (e.g. by 
> VendorId) before initialize them.
> It doesn't concern configuration parameters (size, bus frequency, ecc..).
> There isn't a DDR command to read this information, do you think it is 
> possible to solve this problem in other ways?

Yes, of course it is possible to solve this problem otherwise.

In a sane hardware design you can read  this  information  from  some
board configuration register or so; for example, on the ADS5121 there
could  be  such  a  register implemented in the CPLD. But alas, there
ain't none.

Martha Marx posted pretty good patches (identifyung  board  revisions
based  on  the MAC address) more than a month ago, but then failed to
address the last review comments.

If you want to get that fixed, please pick up her patches  (or  nudge
her to do it for you).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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