[U-Boot] [PATCH] Trimslice config: update for Trimslice so SPI flash works

[Tom Warren]

Steve/Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Warren [mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 2:57 PM
> To: Steve Arnold <nerdboy422 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Stephen Arnold <sarnold at vctlabs.com>; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Stephen L
> Arnold <nerdboy at gentoo.org>; Tom Warren <TWarren at nvidia.com>; Simon
> Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Trimslice config: update for Trimslice so SPI flash
> works
> 
> On 07/26/2016 03:45 PM, Steve Arnold wrote:
> > So is there a fix to be had by maybe shifting both
> > CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE and CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE a little bit?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org
> > <mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 07/26/2016 12:49 PM, Steve Arnold wrote:
> >
> >         I did mention it was black and showed nothing on serial console
> >         with the
> >         default values, ie, building as-is doesn't even show u-boot
> >         trying to
> >         load (after flashing it to the SPI flash the last thing you see is
> >         "Resetting...").  Power it back up and nothing happens, no
> >         u-boot, nada.
> >
> >
> >     It looks like there's some issue if the total flash image size is
> >     over 512KiB. (The physical flash chip is 1MiB). I'm investigating
> >     whether this is expected and what to do about it. The change to
> >     CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE accidentally solves this, since it currently
> >     happens to shrink the image size enough not to hit this apparent limit.
> 
> Changing CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE won't have any effect on this; size matters
> not location.
> 
> As I mentioned, changing CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE currently avoids the issue,
> but hopefully we can find something better.

Was this ever resolved? If so please post an updated patch. I' like to get this out of my Patchwork queue.

Thanks,

Tom
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