[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/3] mx23: Enable tRAS lockout (24 bit of HW_DRAM_CTL08) as in imx-bootlets

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Otavio Salvador,
>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear Otavio Salvador,
>> >
>> >> This enables the 'Fast Auto Pre-Charge' found in the memory chip.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
>> >> ---
>> >> Changes in v2:
>> >> - Improve commit message
>> >>
>> >>  arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/spl_mem_init.c | 2 +-
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/spl_mem_init.c
>> >> b/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/spl_mem_init.c index 836e636..a9efd87
>> >> 100644 --- a/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/spl_mem_init.c
>> >> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/spl_mem_init.c
>> >> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static uint32_t dram_vals[] = {
>> >>
>> >>  #elif defined(CONFIG_MX23)
>> >>
>> >>       0x01010001, 0x00010100, 0x01000101, 0x00000001,
>> >>       0x00000101, 0x00000000, 0x00010000, 0x01000001,
>> >>
>> >> -     0x00000000, 0x00000001, 0x07000200, 0x00070202,
>> >> +     0x01000000, 0x00000001, 0x07000200, 0x00070202,
>> >>
>> >>       0x02020000, 0x04040a01, 0x00000201, 0x02040000,
>> >>       0x02000000, 0x19000f08, 0x0d0d0000, 0x02021313,
>> >>       0x02061521, 0x0000000a, 0x00080008, 0x00200020,
>> >
>> > I went through the u-boot mem init and detected you apparently added the
>> > following undocumented portion of code (the writel((1 << 24 ...) already:
>> >
>> > 112 static void initialize_dram_values(void)
>> > 113 {
>> > 114         int i;
>> > 115
>> > 116         mxs_adjust_memory_params(dram_vals);
>> > 117
>> > 118         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(dram_vals); i++)
>> > 119                 writel(dram_vals[i], MXS_DRAM_BASE + (4 * i));
>> > 120
>> > 121 #ifdef CONFIG_MX23
>> > 122         writel((1 << 24), MXS_DRAM_BASE + (4 * 8));
>> > 123 #endif
>> > 124 }
>> >
>> > It does enable the TRANS_LOCKOUT. So what the heck is going on here? Are
>> > you coding this stuff at random now ? WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING HERE ?!
>>
>> What your tone, please.
>
> My tone reflects my frustration here.

This does not give you the right to be hard at someone, specially when
someone does not make  a mistake by propose.

>> Indeed, it does it. It has been done loooong time ago when we started
>> looking at MX23 and it was not obvious for me it.
>>
>> I will send a patch reverting it and adding a comment explaning it
>> there so it is documented.
>
> No! Again, you are charging forward without thinking first!
>
> Why was this code written like that in the first place? Why was this bit set
> later instead of during the register programming in the first place?

Check the patchset I sent before to shoot, please.

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