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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] AMCC PPC440EPx/sequoia stability question...
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804241506.17386.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209038406.2946.20.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

On Thursday 24 April 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > This depends. When the bootwrapper version is used then yes, the kernel
> > should get changed. This is because the bootwrapper detects the SDRAM
> > size from the DDR2 controller and passes it to Linux.
> >
> > Without bootwrapper no changes are needed, since U-Boot already passes
> > the corrected memory size to Linux (totalsize-4k currently).
>
> Hm.  Given that AMCC ships the boards with an older U-Boot that requires
> cuImages, I think we'll need to patch the wrapper.

Yes, this should be done too. I forgot about it since I usually don't use the 
wrapper.

> Does 440GRx share 
> this same errata?  I would think so.

Yep. Same problem on 440GRx.

Best regards,
Stefan

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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] AMCC PPC440EPx/sequoia stability question...
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804241506.17386.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209038406.2946.20.camel@vader.jdub.homelinux.org>

On Thursday 24 April 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > This depends. When the bootwrapper version is used then yes, the kernel
> > should get changed. This is because the bootwrapper detects the SDRAM
> > size from the DDR2 controller and passes it to Linux.
> >
> > Without bootwrapper no changes are needed, since U-Boot already passes
> > the corrected memory size to Linux (totalsize-4k currently).
>
> Hm.  Given that AMCC ships the boards with an older U-Boot that requires
> cuImages, I think we'll need to patch the wrapper.

Yes, this should be done too. I forgot about it since I usually don't use the 
wrapper.

> Does 440GRx share 
> this same errata?  I would think so.

Yep. Same problem on 440GRx.

Best regards,
Stefan

=====================================================================
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80  Email: office at denx.de
=====================================================================

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-24 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23  3:33 AMCC PPC440EPx/sequoia stability question Dave Littell
2008-04-23  3:33 ` [U-Boot-Users] " Dave Littell
2008-04-23 12:49 ` Stefan Roese
2008-04-23 12:49   ` Stefan Roese
2008-04-24  1:10   ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-24  1:10     ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-24  4:36     ` Stefan Roese
2008-04-24  4:36       ` Stefan Roese
2008-04-24 12:00       ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-24 12:00         ` Josh Boyer
2008-04-24 13:06         ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2008-04-24 13:06           ` Stefan Roese
2008-04-24  2:17   ` Dave Littell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-23 14:10 Mike Nuss
2008-04-24 15:59 Niklaus Giger

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