[U-Boot] P2020 L2 cache as SRAM

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jan 19 21:02:21 CET 2011


On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:50:52 +0100
Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel.ch> wrote:

> At 09:07 17.01.2011 +0100, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >We're trying to configure the PPC P2020 cpu to use the L2 cache
> >as SRAM so we can load the U-Boot code in there. However we
> >stumble into problems. Sometimes the cpu goes on trap when
> >trying to access this area. Sometimes there's no trap but we
> >seem to access a different area. That's probably a problem with
> >setting up a TLB/LAW.
> >
> >Has anybody already done this and could share some code with
> >us?
> >
> >I've seen that there's a mpc85xx branch with quite some work
> >going on. Where should we base our work on? Should we use
> >the master or is it better to use this branch? I'm used to svn,
> >not git, so there may be other options I don't know about yet.
> 
> I know you're busy with patches and releasing, I just wanted
> to ask again if anybody has already done this.

Yes, it's been done.  P1_P2_RDB does this when configured for NAND boot.

Look for CONFIG_SYS_INIT_L2_ADDR.

-Scott



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