Hi all, I was told I should report this.
The tests are performed on two imx233-olinuxino boards: maxi and mini. I've removed R17 (120 ohms between CLK and CLKN) from the mini board as advised in #olimex and the Olimex forum board, but kept it on the maxi board. I am testing U-Boot 2013-04 with a patchset for mx23, build recipe is at [1] with a 3.7.2 kernel [2]. I ran `memtester 24M 100` 3 times on each board, the memtester program is built using [3] on a computer running ArchlinuxARM with armv5 architecture. The maxi board shows no signs of errors -- somewhat strange, given the popular opinion that R17 introduces instability and should be removed. The mini board, despite having R17 removed, shows occasional memory errors, here are some: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Loop 3/100: Stuck Address : testing 6FAILURE: possible bad address line at offset 0x000392a0. Skipping to next test... ... Loop 15/100: Stuck Address : testing 8FAILURE: possible bad address line at offset 0x010321b0. Skipping to next test... ... FAILURE: 0x7e0ba0a0 != 0x7e4ba0a0 at offset 0x0082f8e0. Compare OR : FAILURE: 0x4e032000 != 0x4e432000 at offset 0x0088bf50. ... 8-bit Writes : /FAILURE: 0xfe0f01b0 != 0xfe4f01b0 at offset 0x007de9a4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As advised by Marek, I've repeated the test with disabled pullup on MX23_PAD_EMI_CLKN__EMI_CLKN, changing the line in board/olimex/mx23_olinuxino/spl_boot.c to: MX23_PAD_EMI_CLKN__EMI_CLKN | (MXS_PAD_3V3 | MXS_PAD_12MA | MXS_PAD_NOPULL), , but this doesn't fix the errors on the mini board. I've prepared a rootfs tarball which can be used to replicate the tests. Please see [4]. Thanks, -- Kiril [1] https://github.com/kzyapkov/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/alarm/uboot-olinuxino/PKGBUILD [2] https://github.com/kzyapkov/PKGBUILDs/blob/master/core/linux-olinuxino/PKGBUILD [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/memtester/ [4] http://promptly.undo.it/alarm-memtester/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot