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

[Steve Arnold]

Thanks again, that's one more device truly on mainline for the most
important bits.  I probably said that already, but I still like pointing it
out ;)

Steve

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Tom Warren <TWarren at nvidia.com> wrote:

> 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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