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

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Sep 2 00:46:45 CEST 2016


On 09/01/2016 04:36 PM, Tom Warren wrote:
> 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.

It was superseded by "ARM: tegra: fix trimslice environment location", 
which is already applied.


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