[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] arm/km: fix memory settings

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Mon Nov 12 11:26:32 CET 2012


Hi Prafulla,

On 11/10/2012 08:19 AM, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
>> On kmcoge5un we faced some serious problems with the memory during
>> temperature tests. Reason was that we overwrite some registers for
>> memory settings which have to leave untouched. These where registers
>> 0x20148 , 0x2014c and 0x20154.
>> So writing these registers is prohibited and this patch removes them
>> from all km related config files. Even if the problem was only
>> seen on kmcoge5un.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck at keymile.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp at keymile.com>
>> cc: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla at marvell.com>
>> ---
>>  board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage-memphis.cfg  |    6 +++---
>>  board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage.cfg          |    6 +++---
>>  board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage_128M16_1.cfg |   25 ++-----------------
>> ------
>>  board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage_256M8_1.cfg  |   25 ++-----------------
>> ------
>>  4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage-memphis.cfg
>> b/board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage-memphis.cfg
>> index 6df2ad7..5aa0de2 100644
>> --- a/board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage-memphis.cfg
>> +++ b/board/keymile/km_arm/kwbimage-memphis.cfg
>> @@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ DATA 0xFFD10008 0x00001100	# MPP Control 2
>> Register
>>  DATA 0xFFD100E0 0x1B1B1B1B	# IO Configuration 0 Register
>>  DATA 0xFFD20134 0x66666666	# L2 RAM Timing 0 Register
>>  DATA 0xFFD20138 0x66666666	# L2 RAM Timing 1 Register
>> -DATA 0xFFD20154 0x00000200	# CPU RAM Management Control3 Register
>> -DATA 0xFFD2014C 0x00001C00	# CPU RAM Management Control1 Register
>> -DATA 0xFFD20148 0x00000001	# CPU RAM Management Control0 Register
> 
> I think this should be applicable to other Kirkwood boards too.
> 
>> +
>> +# NOTE: Don't write on 0x20148 , 0x2014c and 0x20154, leave them
>> untouched!
>> +# If not it could cause KW Exceptions during boot in Fast
>> Corners/High Voltage
> 
> Since you are removing above three lines, do you think the above comments are needed in this cfg file? I think you can even remove these comments too because you are not at all providing configuration for this address.
> 
> I think simple you can remove these lines from the code.
>

The comment was meant to be a warning for us for the future because the problems
which are due to this writes were hard to debug.

I would like to keep them and due to the fact that these are
"km only" files it should do no harm. But if you still insist I could also drop
them. Just let me know.

Regards
Holger




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