[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] ls2080: Exit dpaa only right before exiting U-Boot

Prabhakar Kushwaha prabhakar.kushwaha at nxp.com
Tue Jun 7 03:28:30 CEST 2016


Hi Alex,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Graf [mailto:agraf at suse.de]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 7:58 PM
> To: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha at nxp.com>; u-
> boot at lists.denx.de
> Cc: york sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] ls2080: Exit dpaa only right before exiting
> U-Boot
> 
> On 05/18/2016 02:29 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: U-Boot [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of
> >> Alexander Graf
> >> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 5:52 PM
> >> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> >> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] ls2080: Exit dpaa only right before
> >> exiting U- Boot
> >>
> >> On ls2080 we have a separate network fabric component which we need
> >> to shut down before we enter Linux (or any other OS). Along with that
> >> also comes configuration of the fabric using a description file.
> >>
> >> Today we always stop and configure the fabric in the boot script and
> >> (again) exit it on device tree generation. This works ok for the
> >> normal booti case, but with bootefi the payload we're running may
> >> still want to access the network.
> >>
> >> So let's add a new fsl_mc command that defers configuration and
> >> stopping the hardware to when we actually exit U-Boot, so that we can
> >> still use the fabric from an EFI payload.
> >>
> >> For existing boot scripts, nothing should change with this patch.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> > With this patch.
> >
> > If I does not apply MC,  I am getting following crash:-
> >
> > Starting kernel ...
> >
> > "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000044
> 
> So should we consider it a bug fix or regression then? :)
> 
> 

Are you planning to fix it?

If not let me know I will try to  work on it. 

--prabhakar



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