[U-Boot] [PATCH] p1022ds: fix switching of DIU/LBC signals

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Dec 1 14:01:59 CET 2010


On Nov 30, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:36:25 -0600
> Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
> 
>> @@ -244,8 +266,15 @@ void flash_write64(u64 value, void *addr)
>> 
>> 	/* There is no __raw_writeq(), so do the write manually */
>> 	*(volatile u64 *)addr = value;
>> -	if (sw)
>> +	if (sw) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * To ensure the post-write is completed to eLBC, software must
>> +		 * perform a dummy read from one valid address from eLBC space
>> +		 * before changing the eLBC_DIU from NOR mode to DIU mode.
>> +		 */
>> +		__raw_readb(addr);
>> 		set_mux_to_diu();
>> +	}
> 
> Careful with the barriers.
> 
> You've got a raw readback, which means it's not going to wait for
> completion with the twi/isync hack.
> 
> Ordinarily that would be OK, since you only need ordering between the
> readb and the first access in set_mux_to_diu().  Unfortunately, that
> first access is an 8-bit access, which for some strange reason does
> sync differently than 16/32-bit accesses.  The latter do sync+write,
> but 8-bit does write+eieio.  So there's no barrier between the read
> and the write.

Any reason not to use in_8 here?

- k



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