[U-Boot] [PATCH] armv7, beagle: Second SDRAM bank don;t work

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Steve,

Steve Sakoman wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:38 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Heiko Schocher,
>>
>> In message <1287043393-2036-1-git-send-email-hs at denx.de> you wrote:
>>> since commit 3667cbeed5e3c4067e624e52a916b1ebb02c8f05
>>> on beagle board the second sdram bank didn;t longer
>>> work. Since this patch sdram settings just get copied
>>> from bank a, but CMD_NOP, CMD_PRECHARGE, CMD_AUTOREFRESH
>>> are not executed and after that mr register is also
>>> not updated. This patch adds this for the bank b.
>> I would like to see Steve's ACK for the original Beagle board, and
>> it's several versions.
>>
>> Steve, what Heiko forgets to mention here is that this problem happened
>> on a EBV-Beagle, so there are certrain hardware differences.
> 
> I suspect that his using an EVB-Beagle (with associated EVB x-load) is
> what is causing the issue for him.

Yep, seems so.

> With the introduction of the Beagle xM came the need to deal with
> several types of POP memory, and the resulting need for customized setup
> for the SDRC.
> 
> This is best handled in x-load while running from SRAM, since timings
> and mux setup are different for each memory type.
> 
> The code in Beagle x-load currently looks like this:
[...]
> 
> The code in u-boot to copy bank 1 settings to bank 2 was a workaround so that Beagle users
> who didn't update x-load immediately would at least have a functioning system.
> 
> I don't think that Heiko's patch will do any harm and it might be a good idea so that EVB

Yep, so I think too ...

> Beagle users can use the standard Beagle u-boot.  I will have to verify that it does no
> harm on all the various Beagle versions first though.
> 
> I will Ack or Nack after I do some testing.

Thanks!

bye,
Heiko
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