[U-Boot] DNS323 (Orion5x) must double ORION5X_SZ_BOOTROM to access full flash
Rogan Dawes
rogan at dawes.za.net
Tue Aug 24 14:17:58 CEST 2010
On 2010/08/24 1:34 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Le 24/08/2010 09:47, Rogan Dawes a écrit :
>
>> Yes, I still have the vendor u-boot flashed, so I can still see its
>> configuration. And, yes, it does allow reading the full 8MB of flash.
>
>> Vendor u-boot:
>
>> f1020040: 007f0f11 ff800000 00000000 00000000 ................
>
>> Mainline (8MB window):
>
>> f1020070: 003f0f11 ff800000 00000000 00000000 ..?.............
>
>> Mainline (16MB window):
>
>> f1020070: 007f0f11 ff800000 00000000 00000000 ................
>
> The good news is that your flash works normally.
>
> The bad news is that the mainline settings you are showing here are
> wrong with respect to the ORION5X_SZ_BOOTROM: A 16 MB window would be
> 00ff0f11. 007f0f11 is 8MB, and 003f0f11 is 4 MB. Thus, what you think is
> a 16MB widow is actually a 8MB one, and the 8MB one is actually 4MB,
> which explains the issues you have.
>
> I've just checked the code for computing the window size in mainline
> u-boot, and it is off by one, reducing the actual window mapping by
> half. :(
>
> They weird thing is that it affect *all* windows, RAM included; we
> should have seen other issues! I'll do some checks later today and
> provide an officiel bugfix this evening.
>
> Amicalement,
Hi Albert,
Thanks for looking at this.
Do you mean that your own u-boot is also misconfigured?
Rogan
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