[U-Boot] Problem with SDRAM on my board.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Lasse Skov,

please keep the list on Cc:

In message <4F4169B21905494EBD47A304F02192C92772357B69 at XCH-HQ-01.kk.local> you wrote:
> 
> I had now fixed some settings on the DDR2 timing, found something with the ODT and other timing specific for the timing_cfg register.

Will you *please* keep your line length below some 70 charactes or so?
Thanks.

> And included some sync for the cache, but here im not quite sure on that this is correct.
> 
> I had also let my board test the all the address range for my ram from 0x0x20000000 (512MB)
> With the following code.
> 
> int testdram(void)
> {
> 	uint *pstart = (uint *) CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START;
> 	uint *pend = (uint *) CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END;
> 	uint *p;
> 	printf("Testing DRAM from 0x%08x to 0x%08x\n",
> 	       CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START,
> 	       CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END);
> 
> 	printf("DRAM test phase 1:\n");
> 	for (p = pstart; p < pend; p++)
> 		*p = (uint)p%8?0x5A5A5A5A:0xA5A5A5A5;
> 
> 	for (p = pstart; p < pend; p++) {
> 		if (*p !=  ((uint)p%8?0x5A5A5A5A:0xA5A5A5A5)) {
> 			printf("DRAM test fails at: %08x\n", (uint) p);
> 			return 1;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	printf("DRAM test phase 2:\n");
> 	for (p = pstart; p < pend; p++)
> 		*p = (uint)p%8?0xA5A5A5A5:0x5A5A5A5A;
> 	for (p = pstart; p < pend; p++) {
> 		if (*p !=  ((uint)p%8?0xA5A5A5A5:0xA5A5A5A5A)) {
> 			printf("DRAM test fails at: %08x\n", (uint) p);
> 			return 1;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	printf("DRAM test passed.\n");
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> Just some testcode i found and modified it a little bit. But the thing is that this completes with succes.

This is a really braindead test. And like almost all memory tests it
will only exercise simple read and write accesses on the bus - it
cannot test burst mode accesses. Please see the FAQ:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootCrashAfterRelocation

> I know that this is only running from flash and takes a lot of time to test the 512Mb.
> 
> So because this is only running from Flash, I cannot be sure on that my SDRAM configurations is correct?
> Or is this not a right conclusion?

Let's rephrase this: you can be pretty sure that your SDRAM
initialization is _not_ correct.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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