[U-Boot] v2011.12 and later do not boot on dreamplug.

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Sun Jan 8 16:30:04 CET 2012


v2011.12 hangs on boot on my dreamplug with:

        U-Boot 2011.12-dirty (Jan 08 2012 - 15:16:44)
        Marvell-DreamPlug
        
        SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
        DRAM:  512 MiB
        WARNING: Caches not enabled

I bisected it down to:
        commit ca4b55800ed74207c35271bf7335a092d4955416
        Author: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
        Date:   Wed Nov 9 20:06:23 2011 +0000
        
            arm, arm926ejs: always do cpu critical inits
            
            always do the cpu critical inits in cpu_init_crit,
            and only jump to lowlevel_init, if CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
            is not defined.
            
            Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
            Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
            Cc: Wolfgang Denk <hs at denx.de>
            Cc: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj at ti.com>
            Cc: Tom Rini <tom.rini at gmail.com>
            Cc: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch at omicron.at>

and in particular the line
	orr	r0, r0, #0x00000002	/* set bit 2 (A) Align */

Commenting out just that one line causes things to work. Is the error
setting this bit or is it that there is a bug somewhere else which
prevents us setting this bit?

A different approach to the original patch was suggested in
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-December/112353.html and I
suppose that combined with
s/CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT/CONFIG_SKIP_CPU_INIT_CRIT/g in the relevant
config files (at least include/configs/dreamplug.h, but perhaps
everywhere except whichever platform caused this change?) would fix
things.

Thanks,
Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell


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