[U-Boot] [PATCH] malta: use unmapped flash base address

Paul Burton paul.burton at imgtec.com
Mon Nov 11 15:22:41 CET 2013


On 11/11/13 14:05, Gabor Juhos wrote:
> The physical base address of the NOR flash is 0x1e000000
> on the Malta boards. The hardware also maps the first 4MiB
> of the flash into the 0x1fc00000-0x1fffffff range.
>
> Currently, U-Boot uses the mapped address to access the
> flash, which does not work in recent qemu versions.
>
> Since commit a427338b222b43197c2776cbc996936df0302f51
> (mips_malta: correct reading MIPS revision at 0x1fc00010)
> writing to the mapped address space causes a CPU exception.
> Due to the exception, U-Boot hangs during boot when it tries
> to detect the CFI flash chip.
>
> Use the correct physical address for the MALTA_FLASH_BASE
> constant to avoid the problem. The change makes it possible
> to start U-Boot on a Malta board emulated with Qemu 1.6.1
> and 1.7.0-rc0. It also works on older versions (tested with
> 1.1.1, 1.2.2, 1.4.2, 1.5.3). The change is not tested on a
> real Malta board.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg at openwrt.org>
> Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
> ---
>   arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h
> index 9b1100b..bd9043d 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/malta.h
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
>   #define MALTA_RESET_BASE		0x1f000500
>   #define GORESET				0x42
>
> -#define MALTA_FLASH_BASE		0x1fc00000
> +#define MALTA_FLASH_BASE		0x1e000000
>
>   #define MALTA_REVISION			0x1fc00010
>   #define MALTA_REVISION_CORID_SHF	10
>

Hmm, this does run on a real Malta but it takes around a minute to run 
relocate_code... With the 0x1fc00000 base address it's much faster. I'll 
see if I can figure out why...

Paul



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