[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: Fix cache configuration

[Marek Vasut]

On Tuesday, December 08, 2015 at 01:04:29 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 08.12.2015 12:13, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>>>> Usage:
> >>>>> ubifsmount <volume-name>
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>      - mount 'volume-name' volume
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> In the mean time, I was not able to get ubifsmount works.
> >>>>> Appreciate
> >>>>> for any quick advise? Else will look into the code tomorrow as my
> >>>>> bed
> >>>>> is calling me :)
> >>>> 
> >>>> I usually write ubinized image into the "rootfs" partition (sf erase
> >>>> and
> >>>> then sf write) and then do 'ubi part rootfs' , which fails with error
> >>>> 22
> >>>> unless I revert this patch. If I dump the SPI NOR area after writing
> >>>> the
> >>>> data, I see that the last 2 bytes of some pages are corrupted.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I am using these parameters to generate my ~11MiB large ubinized
> >>>> image:
> >>>> MKFS_UBIFS_OPTS="-m 1 -e 65408 -c 200"
> >>>> UBINIZE_OPTS="-m 1 -p 64KiB -s 1"
> >>>> 
> >>>> Here is the content of my ubinize.cfg:
> >>>> [rootfs]
> >>>> mode=ubi
> >>>> image=root.ubifs
> >>>> vol_id=0
> >>>> vol_type=dynamic
> >>>> vol_name=rootfs
> >>>> vol_flags=autoresize
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for the pointers.
> >>> 
> >>> I checked the source and enabled the debug message. Noticed my failure
> >>> is due to small LEB and PEB size. It was set to 4k which is the sub
> >>> -sector erase size of NOR flash. I suspect you didn't hit this as you
> >>> generate ubinized image which is 64kB erase size.
> >>> 
> >>> I will continue to dig more. Need to ensure it works when user create
> >>> UBI part in U-Boot on top of serial NOR flash (which is commonly 4kB
> >>> erase size). Hopefully existing U-Boot already have source taking care
> >>> this :)
> >> 
> >> I am tempted to revert this patch, since it breaks USB and UBI for me
> >> on two different boards though.
> > 
> > It caused regressions it was not supposed to change. That means
> > revert...
> 
> Yes, please revert and hopefully someone will find the time
> to find and fix the problem with this dcache at some time.

Me, already done, see the other email ;-)

> Sorry for the inconvenience. But I didn't notice any problems
> with it until now.

You were just lucky ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut