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

Tom Warren TWarren at nvidia.com
Fri Sep 2 01:11:32 CEST 2016


Stephen,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Warren [mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 3:47 PM
> To: Tom Warren <TWarren at nvidia.com>; 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>; Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Trimslice config: update for Trimslice so SPI flash
> works
> 
> 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.
Ah, missed that. Thanks!


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