[U-Boot] [PATCH] avr32: disable branch folding

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Wed Jun 9 14:09:36 CEST 2010


From: Andreas Bießmann <biessmann at corscience.de>

Due to a hardware bug mentioned in latest AP7000 datasheet errata
(revision M from 09.09) branch folding is unreliable.
This patch disables CPUCR.FE bitfield as stated in datasheet.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <biessmann at corscience.de>
---
 arch/avr32/cpu/start.S |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/avr32/cpu/start.S b/arch/avr32/cpu/start.S
index d37a46e..3d73196 100644
--- a/arch/avr32/cpu/start.S
+++ b/arch/avr32/cpu/start.S
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@
 #define SYSREG_MMUCR_S_OFFSET	4
 
 #define SR_INIT (SYSREG_BIT(GM) | SYSREG_BIT(EM) | SYSREG_BIT(M0))
-#define CPUCR_INIT (SYSREG_BIT(BI) | SYSREG_BIT(BE)		\
-		    | SYSREG_BIT(FE) | SYSREG_BIT(RE)		\
-		    | SYSREG_BIT(IBE) | SYSREG_BIT(IEE))
+// due to errata (unreliable branch folding) set FE bit to '0'
+#define CPUCR_INIT ((SYSREG_BIT(BI) | SYSREG_BIT(BE)	\
+		    | SYSREG_BIT(RE)   |  SYSREG_BIT(IBE)		\
+		    | SYSREG_BIT(IEE)) & ~SYSREG_BIT(FE))
 
 	/*
 	 * To save some space, we use the same entry point for
-- 
1.7.1



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