[U-Boot] coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

[U-Boot] coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

[angelo]

Hi all,

i ported with small changes/additions u-boot to a custom board with MCF5307.
Relocation into ram is done correctly, and monitor works fine except for 
the timer 2 interrupt:
Once inside the assembly "_int_handler" in start.S, the "rte" cause a 
vector 3 exception (instruction fetch error).

So i traced the stack/registers from inside the timer interrupt, too see 
if there is something strange:

U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

CPU:   Freescale Coldfire MCF5307 at 90 MHz
Board: Sysam AMCORE Board
DRAM:  16 MB

Stack set to 00fa1f78
Start relocate of code from ffc00400 to 00ff2000
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 00ff2000


Vector Number: 31  Format: 04  Fault Status: 0

PC: ffffffff    SR: 00002009    SP: 00fa1d9c
D0: 00000000    D1: 0000001d    D2: 00000066    D3: 00fb1f90
D4: ffffbfff    D5: dfffff7e    D6: eff7ffef    D7: 00fb1f90
A0: 00fb1f90    A1: 00ff24c0    A2: 00fa1e3e    A3: 00ffd000
A4: 7ff5fbef    A5: 00ffc000    A6: 00fa1de4

?

The strange thing is that the PC that should be the address where to 
return (next instruction) is 0xffffffff, from this, probably, the 
exception is generated just after the "rte".

I don't really undertsand for what reason the PC is set badly from the micro, hope some 68k expert here can help me.

Many thanks in advance,
angelo

[U-Boot] coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

[Andy Pont]

Hello Angelo,

> U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

I suggest that you have two options:

1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was
current.

2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot.  :-)

Andy.

[U-Boot] coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

[angelo]

On 06/06/2011 15:30, Andy Pont wrote:
> Hello Angelo,
>
>    
>> U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)
>>      
> I suggest that you have two options:
>
> 1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was
> current.
>
> 2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot.  :-)
>
> Andy.
>
>
>    
Hi Andy,

thanks,
the "current" sourceforge link of u-boot offer this package, so i 
considered as almost stable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

If you think there could be some issue related to this, i certainly 
update to last source.
<http://www.sysam.it>
regards,
angelo

[U-Boot] coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

[Andy Pont]

Angelo wrote...

> > > U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)
> >    
> > I suggest that you have two options:
> >
> > 1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was
> > current.
> >
> > 2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot.  :-)
>
> the "current" sourceforge link of u-boot offer this package, so i
considered as almost stable. 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

I think it is a long time since the sourceforge.net page was current.  The
home for the project is at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot.

> If you think there could be some issue related to this, i certainly update
to last source.

If nothing else, you might want the last four years worth of feature
enhancements, bug fixes, etc.

Regards,

Andy.