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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Vineeth _ <blacklites@gmail.com>
Cc: Johnny Hung <johnny.hacking@gmail.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: linux booting fails on ppc440x5 with SRAM
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:33:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091009113338.2B7E3E84EBC@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9b543570910090320t1444f8f1qf4c8ab7dbbef679f@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Vineeth _,

In message <a9b543570910090320t1444f8f1qf4c8ab7dbbef679f@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> We ported the uboot Memory test and tested the 15MB ram and it was
> successful.interestingly we have only 16MB SRAM in our board.We used 1

Such a memory test means nothing. The only thing you can learn from it
is that basic read and write accesses are working. You don;t get any
information about the behaviour for burst mode accesses from such a
test. See the FAQ at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxCrashesRandomly  and at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootCrashAfterRelocation

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-09 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23 14:49 linux booting fails on ppc440x5 with SRAM Vineeth _
2009-09-23 21:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-02 17:17   ` Johnny Hung
2009-10-09 10:20     ` Vineeth _
2009-10-09 11:33       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2009-10-12 13:34         ` Vineeth _
2009-10-15  6:01           ` Vineeth _

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