[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/c29xpcie: 8k page size NAND boot support base on TPL/SPL

Prabhakar Kushwaha prabhakar at freescale.com
Wed Dec 11 08:00:29 CET 2013


On 12/11/2013 8:24 AM, Liu Po-B43644 wrote:
>>   -----Original Message-----
>>   From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com]
>>   Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:20 AM
>>   To: Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579
>>   Cc: Liu Po-B43644; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Sun York-R58495
>>   Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/c29xpcie: 8k page size NAND boot
>>   support base on TPL/SPL
>>   
>>   On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 11:37 +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>   > On 12/9/2013 11:21 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>   > > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 11:10 +0530, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>   > >> On 12/7/2013 6:51 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>   > >>> Prabhakar, why did you extend that to other uses?  Why are both
>>   > >>> entries ifdeffed here, but only the 0xffffe000 entry on existing
>>   boards?
>>   > >> both entry should not be in ifdef. p1010rdb/bsc9131rdb/bsc9132qds
>>   > >> does not have this.
>>   > >> i dont think NOR boot tested after this patch. NOR boot will not
>>   > >> work after applying this patch.
>>   > > So what happens if there's a speculative access to the non-ifdeffed
>>   > > 0xfffff000 when we're not booting from that (e.g. ramboot, SPL
>>   > > payload, SD/SPI...)?
>>   > >
>>   > >
>>   > If I understand the question correctly,
>>   >     Ideally ramboot, SPL payload, SD/SPI should not make access to
>>   > this address.  They assumed to be running from DDR whose TLB has
>>   > already been created by IBR, or First stage boot loader.
>>   
>>   Speculative accesses don't come (directly) from software.  They are
>>   initiated by the hardware and are not predictable.
> Remove the:
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_NAND_MINIMAL
> -       SET_TLB_ENTRY(1, 0xfffff000, 0xfffff000,
> -                       MAS3_SX|MAS3_SW|MAS3_SR, MAS2_I|MAS2_G,
> -                       0, 10, BOOKE_PAGESZ_4K, 1),
> -       SET_TLB_ENTRY(1, 0xffffe000, 0xffffe000,
> -                       MAS3_SX|MAS3_SW|MAS3_SR, MAS2_I|MAS2_G,
> -                       0, 11, BOOKE_PAGESZ_4K, 1),
> -#endif
> Do not effect the NAND/NOR boot after I test in C29XPCIE.
>

I just wonder how it is working without both TLBs. I can guess what is 
happening
    -  NOR boot:  After coming to AS1--> AS0, system is running with NOR 
TLB entry
    -  NAND boot:  after coming to AS1--> AS0, It is 
usingCONFIG_SYS_INIT_L2_ADDR TLB entry

so, it can be removed for c293PCIe.

Regards,
Prabhakar






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