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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pbl updates
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 20:36:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002183641.GC26553@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121002165033.GZ1322@pengutronix.de>

On 18:50 Tue 02 Oct     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:30:11PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 15:06 Tue 02 Oct     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > Here are two updates for the MMU code in the decompressor. The first
> > > one may come in handy when a JTAG debugger is connected. The second
> > > one is more important. It actually makes turning on the MMU in the
> > > decompressor useful by making map_cachable work. It turned out that
> > > this didn't work leaving the whole mapping uncached.
> > > Note that the code in current master should work, but slow. Since
> > > it actually does work I do not want to put this into the upcoming
> > > release.
> > As I report the current code does not work on at91sam9g45
> > I suspect as we boot from the second ram controler on this SoC
> > 
> > So please hold the release that I can try those patch on sam9g45 if they fix
> > the PBL they will be mandatory for it
> 
> I think they won't fix it. map_cachable currently is a noop, but this
> should be fine as now we have a complete 1:1 uncached mapping. I don't
> see why this shouldn't work. I hope you find out.
> 
> What we can do for now is to add an additional Kconfig option to make
> enabling the MMU in the pbl optional. Then at least it should work on
> your boards.
Was thinking about this too
> 
> BTW I hunted down a strange problem with the MMU on a KaRO Tx53 board.
> It turned out that the image header (which basically is a poke table
> to initialize the SDRAM) indeed initialized the SDRAM. The problem was
> that this SDRAM setup depends on some other lowlevel setup which is done
> later. The SDRAM setup was good enough to load with MMU disabled, but
> once the MMU is enabled the SDRAM does burst accesses and the board goes
> to nirvana.
> Maybe your problem is related somehow.
yeah It may solve my issue with the MMU and nand boot

I was thinking to add a initcall support to the pbl and enable the MMU at the
right momment. This will allow to simplify the adding of generic SPL framework

Best Regards,
J.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-02 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 13:06 Sascha Hauer
2012-10-02 13:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM pbl: Provide a dummy error function for the decompressor Sascha Hauer
2012-10-02 13:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM pbl: actually create cached mappings in " Sascha Hauer
2012-10-02 14:30 ` [PATCH] pbl updates Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-10-02 16:50   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-10-02 18:36     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-10-03 10:06       ` Sascha Hauer
2012-10-03 11:37         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
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2012-08-10 20:00 Sascha Hauer

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