[U-Boot] Memory problems on mpc8572ds
Liu Dave-R63238
DaveLiu at freescale.com
Fri May 15 02:47:04 CEST 2009
> my mpc8572ds (2x 512 MiB ram) had initially u-boot 1.3.0-rc2 and I
> haven't notice any problems. Today I updated u-boot to
> v2009.03 because
> I was not able to boot current vanilla linux kernel in smp mode.
> Since then I experience random kernel opses. I thing it has
> something to
> do with memory setup. The settings in the ddr controller changed from
> (v1.3.0-rc2):
> - ddr->sdram_mode 0x00400a62;
> - ddr->sdram_data_init = 0x00000000;
> - ddr->sdram_cfg_2 = 0x04401000;
>
> to (v2009.03):
> - ddr->sdram_mode 0x00440a62
> - ddr->sdram_data_init 0xdeadbeef
> - ddr->sdram_cfg_2 0x24401000
>
> I cherry-picked commit 6a819783 aka "fsl-ddr: Fix two bugs in the ddr
> infrastructure" but nothing improved.
>
> Now I've picked v1.3.0-rc2 and linux v2.6.29. With that combination
> everything seems to work however I experience sometimes ICE while
> compiling. If I continue to compile from that point there is no ICE
> anymore so it does not look like a gcc bug to me.
>
> Any suggestions? Someone with similar problems?
It seems like you are happening the DDR memory issue.
Have a dump all of DDR registers for both v1.3.0-rc2 and v2009.03.
Check if anything is different.
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