[PATCH V2 1/3] mtd: rawnand: denali-spl: Add missing hardware init on SoCFPGA

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy at kernel.org
Sun Jan 26 14:58:47 CET 2020


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 4:03 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On Altera SoCFPGA, upon either cold-boot or power-on reset, the
> Denali NAND IP is initialized by the BootROM ; upon warm-reset,
> the Denali NAND IP is NOT initialized by BootROM. In fact, upon
> warm-reset, the SoCFPGA BootROM checks whether the SPL image in
> on-chip RAM is valid and if so, completely skips re-loading the
> SPL from the boot media.
>
> This does sometimes leads to problems where the software left
> the boot media in inconsistent state before warm-reset, and
> because the BootROM does not reset the boot media, the boot
> media is left in this inconsistent state, often until another
> component attempts to access the boot media and fails with an
> difficult to debug failure. To mitigate this problem, the SPL
> on Altera SoCFPGA always resets all the IPs on the SoC early
> on boot.
>
> This results in a couple of register values, pre-programmed by
> the BootROM, to be lost during this reset. To restore correct
> operation of the IP on SoCFPGA, these values must be programmed
> back into the controller by the driver. Note that on other SoCs
> which do not use the HW-controlled bootstrap, more registers
> may have to be programmed.
>
> This also aligns the SPL behavior with the full Denali NAND
> driver, which sets these values in denali_hw_init().
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---

Applied to u-boot-uniphier.
Thanks.




> V2: Reword the commit message
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/denali_spl.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/denali_spl.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/denali_spl.c
> index dbaba3cab2..b8b29812aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/denali_spl.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/denali_spl.c
> @@ -173,6 +173,13 @@ void nand_init(void)
>         page_size = readl(denali_flash_reg + DEVICE_MAIN_AREA_SIZE);
>         oob_size = readl(denali_flash_reg + DEVICE_SPARE_AREA_SIZE);
>         pages_per_block = readl(denali_flash_reg + PAGES_PER_BLOCK);
> +
> +       /* Do as denali_hw_init() does. */
> +       writel(CONFIG_NAND_DENALI_SPARE_AREA_SKIP_BYTES,
> +              denali_flash_reg + SPARE_AREA_SKIP_BYTES);
> +       writel(0x0F, denali_flash_reg + RB_PIN_ENABLED);
> +       writel(CHIP_EN_DONT_CARE__FLAG, denali_flash_reg + CHIP_ENABLE_DONT_CARE);
> +       writel(0xffff, denali_flash_reg + SPARE_AREA_MARKER);
>  }
>
>  int nand_spl_load_image(uint32_t offs, unsigned int size, void *dst)
> --
> 2.24.1
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada


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