Tested on VoCore2 board.
RAM loading seems to work flawlessly.
Tested-by: Mauro Condarelli <mc5...@mclink.it>
Regards
Mauro
On 2/12/20 3:26 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> It has been noticed on MT7628/88 platforms, that booting the RAM image
> does not work reliably. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. Debugging
> showed that this "might" be a cache related issue as very strange
> errors occurred (e.g. output corrupted etc).
>
> This patch adds a cache flush for the complete SDRAM area to the go cmd
> before jumping to the entry point for the MIPS architecture. The
> complete area is flushed as we don't know at this point, how big the
> area of the "application" really is.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierz...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mauro Condarelli <mc5...@mclink.it>
> Cc: Weijie Gao <weijie....@mediatek.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/lib/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/mips/lib/boot.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/mips/lib/boot.c
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/Makefile b/arch/mips/lib/Makefile
> index 589bc651f9..24a72d9c97 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/Makefile
> @@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ obj-y += stack.o
> obj-y += traps.o
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_BOOTM) += bootm.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_GO) += boot.o
>
> lib-$(CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC) += ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/boot.c b/arch/mips/lib/boot.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..6186f72090
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/boot.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2020 Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de>
> + */
> +
> +#include <common.h>
> +#include <command.h>
> +#include <cpu_func.h>
> +
> +DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
> +
> +unsigned long do_go_exec(ulong (*entry)(int, char * const []),
> + int argc, char * const argv[])
> +{
> + /*
> + * Flush cache before jumping to application. Let's flush the
> + * whole SDRAM area, since we don't know the size of the image
> + * that was loaded.
> + */
> + flush_cache(gd->bd->bi_memstart, gd->bd->bi_memsize);
> +
> + return entry(argc, argv);
> +}
