[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: dm: Fix DM initialization failure after warm reset

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Sep 3 13:14:59 CEST 2015


On Thursday, September 03, 2015 at 01:12:03 PM, Jian Luo wrote:
> On 03.09.2015 12:46, Marek Vasut wrote:
>  > On Thursday, September 03, 2015 at 12:17:13 PM, Jian Luo wrote:
>  > 
>  > Hi!
>  > 
>  > [...]
>  > 
>  >>  >> Yes, I can. But U-Boot can still have problem with other Image
>  >>  >> which disables ECC.
>  >>  >> I found another post related to this problem
>  >>  >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/6/685 .
>  >>  >> 
>  >>  >>      Quote: To initialize ECC, the OCRAM needs to enable ECC
> 
> then clear
> 
>  >>  >> the entire
>  >>  >> 
>  >>  >>      memory to zero before using it.
>  >> 
>  >> Hi!
>  >> 
>  >>  > Oh, but that is a problem, since we're running from the OCRAM
> 
> ourselves,
> 
>  >>  > thus we cannot clear the OCRAM. Maybe we should force-disable the
>  >>  > ECC instead? But can we be sure that the corruption does not happen
>  >>  > when you disable ECC ?
>  >> 
>  >> Yes, that will be a problem. It's also why I let the
>  >> SYSMGR_ECC_OCRAM_EN bit intact in the patch.
>  > 
>  > OK, but what about turning the ECC off in the SPL, will that also
> 
> introduce
> 
>  > corruption or not ? That might be the right fix, no ?
> 
> Hi Marek,
> 
> Sorry, I don't know the detail of ECC implementation in socfpga.
> Dinh might have the answer to that.
> 
> Anyhow I still think let the setting untouched is the safest fix.
> SPL should use the same ECC setting which BROM loads SPL with.

That's right, but I'd also like to have this bit in some defined
state from the boot instead of having this in some random setting.
Dinh, can you comment on this corruption please ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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