Hallo Bas,
On 06/20/2013 10:05 AM, Bas van den Berg wrote:
I'm trying to optimize the boottime for an AM335x based board. Currently
we're loading the kernel from SPL directly (falcon mode). Loading the kernel
from flash to ram takes roughly 3 seconds.
When doing this from U-boot itself with 'nand read .., it only takes 1.8
seconds.
It seems that U-boot has data_cache enabled, while SPL did not.
When enabling the data cache with dcache_enable(), loading takes 3.5 seconds,
so even slower! The enabling itself does not take a significant amount of time.
Anyone have any idea why enabling the data cache slows SPL down?
Or does U-boot do anything else that I'm missing?
For an am3517 I added the code below to spl_board_init to
enable caches in SPL. It adds the SRAM region to the mmu,
by an obvious hack, but it works. I don't remember by heart
why I change / update gd->tlb_addr. The used address is
somewhere in the end of DRAM.
No guarantees this is related to your issue (or to work at all).
---
Groet,
Jeroen
if (!spl_start_uboot()) {
dram_init_banksize();
/* reserve TLB table (4k) */
gd->tlb_addr = 0x8fff0000;
debug("TLB table at: %08lx\n", gd->tlb_addr);
/* add sram (64k actually, but the cp15 counts in MiBs) */
gd->bd->bi_dram[1].start = CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE;
gd->bd->bi_dram[1].size = (1 << 20);
/* Enable caches */
enable_caches();
}
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