OMAP 3730 200 MHz SDRAM config

OMAP 3730 200 MHz SDRAM config

[Orjan Friberg]

Hi,

I'm looking at configuring an OMAP 3730 board for 200 MHz SDRAM.

I've been looking at the kernel code (arch/arm/mach-omap2) the last
couple of days to try and figure out what I need to do.  We're basing 
ourselves off of the Beagleboard, so I tried copying the 200 MHz Hynix 
SDRAM entry for Beagleboard-xM but that didn't help: it still 
(re)programs the SDRC clock to 166 MHz.

* Does the kernel at all use or depend on the boot loader's SDRAM
config?  (I'm using u-boot with a prepended configuration header.)

* Does the SDRAM setup/clocking depend on the MPU rate at all?  I.e. do
I need to boot Linux in 1 GHz to be able to set 200 MHz SDRC clock?

The clock config is a bit convoluted, so I'd appreciate any help.


Thanks,
Orjan



Appendix:

I'm using a program (user-mode app) called 'bandwidth' (which has an ARM
port):
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/bandwidth.html for measurements.

With big (several MB) sequential writes I get ~1170 MB/s.  The
theoretical max for a 166 MHz is 166*2 * 4 bytes = 1328 MB/s, so we're
almost at 90%.  We're not the only process accessing memory, and maybe
there's some loss due to SDRAM refresh etc.

-- 
Orjan Friberg
FlatFrog Laboratories AB

Re: OMAP 3730 200 MHz SDRAM config

[Orjan Friberg]

On 2011-03-07 16:19, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> You probably need update x-loader. Try using the beagleboard x-loader project located at gitorious (v1.44) or the ti arago one (1.48, but not quite the latest in terms of support for beagleboard xm parts).
>
> Looking at board/omap3530beagle/omap3530beagle.c for the memory part definitions. For the XM, the Numonyx part is at 165Mhz, and the Micron part is at 200Mhz.

I'm using u-boot with a configuration header, and there I have set the 
new CTRLA, CTRLB and RFR values (and I did compare the values with the 
Micron data sheet; apart from the TCKE value they are all identical).

But are you saying that the values set by the boot loader are preserved 
by the kernel?  (In that case I wonder what the sdram-micron header file 
is for :)


Thanks,
Orjan

-- 
Orjan Friberg
FlatFrog Laboratories AB