[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] arm: socfpga: cyclone5-socdk: Enabling mtd partitioning layout

Chin Liang See clsee at altera.com
Tue Dec 15 11:09:59 CET 2015


On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 02:15 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 02:09:42 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 01:32 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 04:22:57 PM, Chin Liang See
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 02:25 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 02:22:32 AM, Chin Liang See
> > 
> > > > > wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > Yeah, I can successfully mounted with ubifs :)
> > > > 
> > > > Just that I still have the issue with U-Boot ubifsmount
> > > > although I
> > > > already applied the patch for cache ARMV7. I will take a look
> > > > into
> > > > ubi
> > > > code as I suspect its due to eraseblock size issue.
> > > 
> > > Keep looking, good luck.
> > 
> > Yup, will compare the UBI code with the Linux one.
> > 

Yeah, I managed to get ubiufsmount work in U-Boot now. Need to disable
the 4K_SECTORS when enabling UBI at NOR flash.


> > > The armv7 cache issue is more serious than I thought, I am
> > > starting
> > > to suspect
> > > there is some problem with the L3 interconnect, but I cannot put
> > > my
> > > finger on
> > > it yet.
> > 
> > Hmmm... I can try to help.
> > 
> > FYI, I was trying to understand how the code error in cache-cp15
> > will
> > cause the misbehave. One thing I am suspecting it might due to
> > mismatch
> > of cache policy for the memory that store the page table and
> > translation page walk mechanism. But with your fix, it should be
> > good
> > as they are matching now.
> 
> I would suggest to move this to the thread below the CPU_V7 patch.

Would you able to include me to the thread? Thanks in advance!

> 
> btw. the L2 cache is not enabled on SoCFPGA at all :-( I have a patch
> to fix
> it, but this doesn't help us. 

Hmmm... I saw the PL310 is defined. I might want to look further.

> I suspect there might be some synchronisation
> or timing issue with accesses through the L3 interconnect, which
> would point
> to NIC301 misconfiguration, but that's purely hypothetical.Do you
> have some
> hardware-level or RTL-level/simulation tool to debug such issues at
> Altera ?

I hardly use simulation except for in house pre-silicon validation. But
I use DS-5 a lot to troubleshoot an issue (by probing various registers
including cp15).

Thanks
Chin Liang

> 
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut


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