[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4][v3] powerpc/85xx:Make debug exception vector accessible

Andy Fleming afleming at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 06:05:25 CEST 2012


On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha
<prabhakar at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 25 April 2012 02:50 AM, Andy Fleming wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Scott Wood<scottwood at freescale.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/24/2012 03:45 PM, Andy Fleming wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Prabhakar Kushwaha
>>>>>
>>>>> @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
>>>>>  #define CONFIG_MAX_CPUS                        1
>>>>>  #define CONFIG_FSL_SDHC_V2_3
>>>>>  #define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_NUM_LAWS                12
>>>>> +#define CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB  3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You've only enabled this for one processor. Maybe the P1010. Nowhere
>>>> in the patch description does it mention that this is only being
>>>> enabled for one chip. As it is, I think you meant to enable it for
>>>> more chips, and I'm wondering why it's not enabled for the other chips
>>>> mentioned in the comments above as being test platforms for this
>>>> patch...
>>>>
>>>> Probably, for this feature, we should make a default definition, which
>>>> can be overridden by other parts if necessary.
>>>>
>>>> In other words, add something like this near the end:
>>>>
>>>> #ifndef CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
>>>> #define CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB 3
>>>> #endif
>>>
>>> We don't want to enable this on e500mc (testing in that context just
>>> means that we didn't break the code path where this isn't enabled).  I'm
>>> not sure whether it will break anything if we do enable it on e500mc,
>>> but we don't need it.
>>
>> Ok, but we still either need this to be enabled for all e500/e500v2.
>> OR split off this config option into a separate patch where it's
>> mentioned that this is only being enabled on the P1010.
>>
>> Actually, it should probably be added to this area that deals in
>> core-specific config options:
>
>
>  I agree. I will split the debugger patch and P1010 debug enable.
> A separate patch will be send for P1010 SoC.
> For other e500v2 processor based SoC,as i am not sure about their
> verification.  It will be send as and when verified.

That should be fine.

Andy


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