[U-Boot] [V3 1/3] sunxi: Fix A33 memory initialization

Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi michael at amarulasolutions.com
Thu Mar 28 11:25:12 UTC 2019


Hi Philippe and Andre'

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:48 AM Shyam Saini
<shyam.saini at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> From: Michael Trimarchi <michael at amarulasolutions.com>
>
> While the exact problem is not known, based on discussion between
> Philipp Tomsich and André Przywara it is guessed that exit self-refresh
> timing is not set with correct value. There may be implicit enter or
> exit Self-Refresh anywhere  as part of some training phase.
>
> In ZynqMP register guide [1], which is close to the various
> Allwinner DRAM controllers, tXSDLL is bits [14:8], while the non-DLL
> tXS is bits [6:0]: Self refresh exit delay. So it could be safely
> increased and it only affects the time after the self-refresh “exit”,
> which happens only after (re-)initialisation.
>
> There was no document for cpu in question so based on oscilloscope
> readings [2][3] and observed result by comparing allwinner architecture.
> So set it same as  Allwinner H5 silicon.
>
> Before this patch, failure rate of was 7%.
>
> This was tested on A33 allwinner cpu, dual rank connection connected
> with two MT41K512M16HA-125:A memory model. Memory is configured as DDR3
> 1.5V
>

Are you happy with this description?

Michael
> [1] https://www.xilinx.com/html_docs/registers/ug1087/ddrc___dramtmg8.html
> [2] https://ibb.co/R70zmyS
> [3] https://ibb.co/HVVCGQ8
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael at amarulasolutions.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <shyam.saini at amarulasolutions.com>
> ---
> Changelogs:
>            V1->V2: adjust commit message
>            V2->V3: Adjust commit message based on V2 Discussion
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/dram_sun8i_a33.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/dram_sun8i_a33.c b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/dram_sun8i_a33.c
> index 1da2727f9874..5da01922bfaf 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/dram_sun8i_a33.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/dram_sun8i_a33.c
> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static void auto_set_timing_para(struct dram_para *para)
>         reg_val &= ~(0xff << 8);
>         reg_val &= ~(0xff << 0);
>         reg_val |= (0x33 << 8);
> -       reg_val |= (0x8 << 0);
> +       reg_val |= (0x10 << 0);
>         writel(reg_val, &mctl_ctl->dramtmg8);
>         /* Set phy interface time */
>         reg_val = (0x2 << 24) | (t_rdata_en << 16) | (0x1 << 8)
> --
> 2.11.0
>


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