[U-Boot] omap3_beagle problem booting kernel on latest u-boot

Aneesh V aneesh at ti.com
Thu Sep 29 20:59:26 CEST 2011


John,

On Thursday 29 September 2011 09:00 PM, John Rigby wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Aneesh V<aneesh at ti.com>  wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> My primary suspect would be cache. But the fact that
>> CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF is not helping is strange. Could you double-check
>> this and also make sure that CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF is enabled too.
>>
>
> Ok, verified that CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF is defined and also added
> CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF.  And it still fails.

Could you try something like below(also attached). I suspect issues
with cache invalidation before Linux.

---
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
index 1b4e808..6907ff6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cache_v7.c
@@ -248,13 +248,6 @@ static void v7_inval_tlb(void)
  	CP15ISB;
  }
-void invalidate_dcache_all(void)
-{
-	v7_maint_dcache_all(ARMV7_DCACHE_INVAL_ALL);
-
-	v7_outer_cache_inval_all();
-}
-
  /*
   * Performs a clean & invalidation of the entire data cache
   * at all levels
@@ -306,9 +299,6 @@ void  flush_cache(unsigned long start, unsigned long 
size)
  	flush_dcache_range(start, start + size);
  }
  #else /* #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF */
-void invalidate_dcache_all(void)
-{
-}

  void flush_dcache_all(void)
  {
@@ -356,6 +346,14 @@ void invalidate_icache_all(void)
  }
  #endif

+
+void invalidate_dcache_all(void)
+{
+	v7_maint_dcache_all(ARMV7_DCACHE_INVAL_ALL);
+
+	omap3_invalidate_l2_cache_secure();
+}
+
  /*
   * Stub implementations for outer cache operations
   */
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/board.c 
b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/board.c
index 0448bc9..7221f5a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/board.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap3/board.c
@@ -360,9 +360,8 @@ static void omap3_setup_aux_cr(void)
  	omap3_update_aux_cr_secure(0xE0, 0);
  }

-#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF
  /* Invalidate the entire L2 cache from secure mode */
-static void omap3_invalidate_l2_cache_secure(void)
+void omap3_invalidate_l2_cache_secure(void)
  {
  	if (get_device_type() == GP_DEVICE) {
  		omap3_gp_romcode_call(OMAP3_GP_ROMCODE_API_L2_INVAL,
@@ -376,6 +375,7 @@ static void omap3_invalidate_l2_cache_secure(void)
  	}
  }

+#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF
  void v7_outer_cache_enable(void)
  {
  	/* Set L2EN */
-- 
1.7.1



>
> --john

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