[U-Boot] [PATCH 05/14] ARM: AM43XX: board: add support for reading onboard EEPROM

Vaibhav Bedia vaibhav.bedia at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 17:39:00 CET 2013


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 November 2013 06:08 PM, Vaibhav Bedia wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com> wrote:
>>> From: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
>>>
>>> Add support for reading onboard EEPROM to enable
>>> board detection.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla at ti.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/omap.h |    2 ++
>>>  board/ti/am43xx/board.c                 |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  board/ti/am43xx/board.h                 |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  include/configs/am43xx_evm.h            |    7 +++++
>>>  4 files changed, 87 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/omap.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/omap.h
>>> index 2250721..10f05c9 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/omap.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-am33xx/omap.h
>>> @@ -27,5 +27,7 @@
>>>  #define NON_SECURE_SRAM_START  0x402F0400
>>>  #define NON_SECURE_SRAM_END    0x40340000
>>>  #define SRAM_SCRATCH_SPACE_ADDR        0x4033C000
>>> +#define AM4372_BOARD_NAME_START        SRAM_SCRATCH_SPACE_ADDR
>>> +#define AM4372_BOARD_NAME_END  SRAM_SCRATCH_SPACE_ADDR + 0xC
>>>  #endif
>>>  #endif
>>> diff --git a/board/ti/am43xx/board.c b/board/ti/am43xx/board.c
>>> index dcd8cbb..4fc1a40 100644
>>> --- a/board/ti/am43xx/board.c
>>> +++ b/board/ti/am43xx/board.c
>>> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
>>>   */
>>>
>>>  #include <common.h>
>>> +#include <i2c.h>
>>> +#include <asm/errno.h>
>>>  #include <spl.h>
>>>  #include <asm/arch/clock.h>
>>>  #include <asm/arch/sys_proto.h>
>>> @@ -17,6 +19,50 @@
>>>
>>>  DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * Read header information from EEPROM into global structure.
>>> + */
>>> +static int read_eeprom(struct am43xx_board_id *header)
>>> +{
>>> +       /* Check if baseboard eeprom is available */
>>> +       if (i2c_probe(CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR)) {
>>> +               printf("Could not probe the EEPROM at 0x%x\n",
>>> +                      CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR);
>>> +               return -ENODEV;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       /* read the eeprom using i2c */
>>> +       if (i2c_read(CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR, 0, 2, (uchar *)header,
>>> +                    sizeof(struct am43xx_board_id))) {
>>> +               printf("Could not read the EEPROM\n");
>>> +               return -EIO;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       if (header->magic != 0xEE3355AA) {
>>
>> Why is the header the same as AM335x? Shouldn't it be something
>> like 0xEE3344AA or whatever?
> No, the header is still same. It is 0xEE3355AA.
>

My question was why ;)
What's the point of adding the same magic value for a different SoC?
Unless there's a good reason for doing so i think this needs to be fixed
in the EEPROM programmer.


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