[PATCH v2 3/3] ddr: socfpga: Add ECC DRAM scrubbing support for Gen5/Arria10
Yuslaimi, Alif Zakuan
alif.zakuan.yuslaimi at altera.com
Wed May 6 07:47:55 CEST 2026
Hi Brian,
On 5/5/2026 7:08 pm, Sune Brian wrote:
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> On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM Chee, Tien Fong
> <tien.fong.chee at altera.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alif,
>>
>>
>> On 28/4/2026 11:32 am, alif.zakuan.yuslaimi at altera.com wrote:
>>> From: Alif Zakuan Yuslaimi <alif.zakuan.yuslaimi at altera.com>
>>>
>>> The SDRAM must first be rewritten by zeroes if ECC is used to initialize
>>> the ECC metadata. Make the CPU overwrite the DRAM with zeroes in such a
>>> case.
>>>
>
> ...
>
>> Why not remove this?
>>
>
> Hi Alif,
>
> Just few comments:
>
> - If possible make it inline, extra file means extra time to compile etc.
> - To reduce the code size which I tested a bit, the text message is the easiest.
> So possible reuse or cleanup text print if needed.
> - use "./scripts/checkpatch.pl" under the u-boot folder to clean things up.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
Thanks for the suggestions, I can try to play around with these options
and see if I come across any meaningful breakthroughs for these Gen5
variants in the future.
I'll double check the checkpatch results for the next v3 submission.
Regards,
Alif
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