[U-Boot] [PATCH 14/14] sunxi: dram: Autodetect DDR3 bus width and density

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 19:23 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> In the case if the 'dram_para' struct does not specify the exact bus width
> or chip density, just use a trial and error method to find a usable
> configuration.
> 
> Because all the major bugs in the DRAM initialization sequence are now
> hopefully fixed, it should be safe to re-initialize the DRAM controller
> multiple times until we get it configured right. The original Allwinner's
> boot0 bootloader also used a similar autodetection trick.
> 
> The DDR3 spec contains the package pinout and addressing table for different
> possible chip densities. It appears to be impossible to distinguish between a
> single chip with 16 I/O data lines and a pair of chips with 8 I/O data lines
> in the case if they provide the same storage capacity. Because a single 16-bit
> chip has a higher density than a pair of equivalent 8-bit chips, it has
> stricter refresh timings. So in the case of doubt, we assume that 16-bit
> chips are used. Additionally, only Allwinner A20 has all A0-A15 address
> lines and can support densities up to 8192. The older Allwinner A10 and
> Allwinner A13 can only support densities up to 4096.
> 
> We deliberately leave out DDR2, dual-rank configurations and the special case
> of a 8-bit chip with density 8192. None of these configurations seem to have
> been ever used in real devices. And no new devices are likely to use these
> exotic configurations (because only up to 2GB of RAM can be populated in any
> case).
> 
> This DRAM autodetection feature potentially allows to have a single low
> performance fail-safe DDR3 initialiazation for a universal single bootloader
> binary, which can be compatible with all Allwinner A10/A13/A20 based devices
> (if the ifdefs are replaced with a runtime SoC type detection).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>