[U-Boot] Problem booting on custom board (85xx)

[Alden, Kevin]

I am still fighting this DDR issue.  Currently, I am trying to get a DDR test to run in uboot before the relocation occurs (in board_init_f).  The problem is that if I write code to access memory mapped to DDR, I see no DDR activity on the logic analyzer.  Unfortunately it took me a few days of analyzing memory test results before I realized this :)

It seems like any access to DDR memory actually just accesses cache.  Looking at the relocate assembly code seems to verify this.  It looks like that assembly loads the cache and then flushes the cache to DDR.

I tried modifying the DDR TLB entry to disable the cache, but that seems to hang my memory test before it even starts to write to memory.  Does anyone know of a way to get simple memory read/write access working inside board_init_f?

Thanks,
Kevin


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From: Alden, Kevin
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:24 AM
To: Jared Lewis
Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
Subject: RE: [U-Boot] Problem booting on custom board (85xx)

I agree, it does seem like a DDR issue.

I commented out the code below because it seemed unnecessary and I was able to get into board_init_r.  Problem now is that the first 3 instructions of board_init_r are all 0, so it crashes there.  I looked around in memory and this problem is all over the place.  Random instructions set to 0.  There must be a time value that is just on the edge of working properly.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Lewis [mailto:Jared.Lewis at radisys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 4:57 PM
To: Alden, Kevin
Subject: RE: [U-Boot] Problem booting on custom board (85xx)

Hello Kevin,

In my experience (I've also worked on P2020s with U-Boot), if you can't
make it to board_init_r, this is usually a DDR configuration problem.
It is hard to say definitively from this output though.  Are you using
the default RDB project for your DDR settings?

Which emulator are you using to incorporate break points?  Are you using
a BDI or a different emulator?  If you're using a BDI, are you
configuring the memory controller of the P2020 with your configuration
file or are you leaving the initialization to the U-Boot code?

Thanks,
Jared

-----Original Message-----
From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
On Behalf Of Alden, Kevin
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:00 AM
To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Problem booting on custom board (85xx)

Hello,

I have a custom board based on the Freescale P2020 RDB.  I am having
trouble getting through the entire boot sequence.  Basically, I can't
get a breakpoint to hit in board_init_r.

I can get a break point in the "in_ram" section of start.s though.  This
executes all the way to the following loop
                /*
                * Now adjust the fixups and the pointers to the fixups
                * in case we need to move ourselves again.
                */
                li              r0,__fixup_entries at sectoff@l
                lwz         r3,GOT(_FIXUP_TABLE_)
                cmpwi   r0,0
                mtctr     r0
                addi       r3,r3,-4
                beq        4f
3:            lwzu       ri4,4(r3)
                lwzux    r0,r4,r11
                add        r0,r0,r11
                stw         r10,0(r3)
                stw         r0,0(r4)
                bdnz      3b

Basically, it spins through this loop for a while and eventually I get a
TLB exception.  Is this just a cut and dry DDR configuration problem, or
should I be looking at my Uboot setup?

Thanks,
Kevin