[U-Boot] [PATCH] KARO TX25: Fix NAND Flash R/W cycle times

Benoît Thébaudeau benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com
Wed Aug 8 15:55:32 CEST 2012


The NAND Flash of the KARO TX25 board is a Samsung K9F1G08U0B with 25-ns R/W
cycle times. However, the NFC clock for this board was set to 66.5 MHz, so using
the NFC driver in symmetric mode (i.e. 1 NFC clock cycle = 1 NF R/W cycle)
resulted in NF R/W cycle times of 15 ns, hence corrupted NF accesses.

This patch fixes this issue by setting the NFC clock to the highest frequency
complying to the 25-ns NF R/W cycle times specification, i.e. 33.25 MHz.

Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com>
Cc: John Rigby <jcrigby at gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
Cc: Daniel Gachet <Daniel.Gachet at hefr.ch>
---
This patch is a replacement solution that I suggest instead of
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/174735/ since there is no need for a
CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MXC_NFC_TWO_CYCLES config option in the NFC driver.

It still has to be tested by someone having this board, but I'm very confident
that it works since I have another PCB design based on the i.MX25 with a NAND
Flash with the same timings that works fine using these clock settings.

 .../board/karo/tx25/lowlevel_init.S                |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git u-boot-2012.07.orig/board/karo/tx25/lowlevel_init.S u-boot-2012.07/board/karo/tx25/lowlevel_init.S
index 823df10..eb3f187 100644
--- u-boot-2012.07.orig/board/karo/tx25/lowlevel_init.S
+++ u-boot-2012.07/board/karo/tx25/lowlevel_init.S
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@
 	write32	0x53f80008, 0x20034000
 
 	/*
+	 * PCDR2: NFC = 33.25 MHz
+	 * This is required for the NAND Flash of this board, which is a Samsung
+	 * K9F1G08U0B with 25-ns R/W cycle times, in order to make it work with
+	 * the NFC driver in symmetric (i.e. one-cycle) mode.
+	 */
+	write32	0x53f80020, 0x01010103
+
+	/*
 	 * enable all implemented clocks in all three
 	 * clock control registers
 	 */


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