[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Add support for MINI2440 (s3c2440). Documentation about the product can be found on: http://www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Fri Apr 20 16:08:55 CEST 2012


Dear Ilya Averyanov,

> 2012/4/20 Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> 
> > Dear Ilya Averyanov,
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > > > > > > .word 0x32
> > > > > > > > > +    .word 0x30
> > > > > > > > > +    .word 0x30
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > What this undocumented stuff?
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > SoC specific, I pasted it from smdk2410, it's for initialize
> > > > > > > the
> > > > 
> > > > DRAM.
> > > > 
> > > > > > Can't you init DRAM in some more fitting place? Also document
> > > > > > this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't know, this part is a bit difficult for me, but I'm going to
> > 
> > try
> > 
> > > > > to document it with the help of the SoC documentation.
> > > > > 
> > > > > For the place, should I move it to mini2440.c in arch_cpu_init() or
> > > > > board_early_init_f() ? I don't really know the difference.
> > > > 
> > > > dram_init() maybe ?
> > > 
> > > You propose to initialize the SDRAM controller in dram_init ()?
> > 
> > Well yes, ain't it more fitting ?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Marek Vasut
> 
> No. We have to two reasons why this is not the case.
> 1) Open u-boot/arch/arm/cpu/arm920t/start.S:328
> cpu_init_crit
> ......
> line 346
>     /*
>      * before relocating, we have to setup RAM timing
>      * because memory timing is board-dependend, you will
>      * find a lowlevel_init.S in your board directory.
>      */

Well don't setup run in lowlevel_init.S then ?

> 2) NAND controller must be initialized before C code run.

Why?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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