[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] arm: socfpga: cyclone5-socdk: Enabling mtd partitioning layout

Chin Liang See
2015-12-18T09:39:12Z

On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 19:16 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 11:09:59 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 02:15 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 02:09:42 AM, Chin Liang See
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 01:32 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 04:22:57 PM, Chin Liang See
> > > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 02:25 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 02:22:32 AM, Chin Liang
> > > > > > > See
> > > >
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > > > Yeah, I can successfully mounted with ubifs :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just that I still have the issue with U-Boot ubifsmount
> > > > > > although I
> > > > > > already applied the patch for cache ARMV7. I will take a
> > > > > > look
> > > > > > into
> > > > > > ubi
> > > > > > code as I suspect its due to eraseblock size issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Keep looking, good luck.
> > > >
> > > > Yup, will compare the UBI code with the Linux one.
> >
> > Yeah, I managed to get ubiufsmount work in U-Boot now. Need to
> > disable
> > the 4K_SECTORS when enabling UBI at NOR flash.
>
> In that case, look at commit 0a02655481834a4ebdf457e43c24729ffd7daf37

Yup, I was defining that macro. Surprising that nobody is defining
that. Also nice to know you are the one creating this patch.

>
> > > > > The armv7 cache issue is more serious than I thought, I am
> > > > > starting
> > > > > to suspect
> > > > > there is some problem with the L3 interconnect, but I cannot
> > > > > put
> > > > > my
> > > > > finger on
> > > > > it yet.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... I can try to help.
> > > >
> > > > FYI, I was trying to understand how the code error in cache
> > > > -cp15
> > > > will
> > > > cause the misbehave. One thing I am suspecting it might due to
> > > > mismatch
> > > > of cache policy for the memory that store the page table and
> > > > translation page walk mechanism. But with your fix, it should
> > > > be
> > > > good
> > > > as they are matching now.
> > >
> > > I would suggest to move this to the thread below the CPU_V7
> > > patch.
> >
> > Would you able to include me to the thread? Thanks in advance!
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg195327.html
>
> > > btw. the L2 cache is not enabled on SoCFPGA at all :-( I have a
> > > patch
> > > to fix
> > > it, but this doesn't help us.
> >
> > Hmmm... I saw the PL310 is defined. I might want to look further.
>
> I will send that patch out shortly, but I think there is something
> else
> going on. I am starting to suspect something with the L3
> interconnect.
> Maybe some R/W reordering or something like that in NIC301 .
>
> Are you able to replicate my USB issue with mainline on socfpga ?
> What
> happens if you run usb reset with a USB stick plugged in? What
> compiler
> version do you use ?

I tried that few weeks back and it works for me. FYI, I am using the
mentor toolchain "arm-altera-eabi" that come with SOCEDS. Maybe I can
try again with your toolchain.

Thanks
Chin Liang

>
> > > I suspect there might be some synchronisation
> > > or timing issue with accesses through the L3 interconnect, which
> > > would point
> > > to NIC301 misconfiguration, but that's purely hypothetical.Do you
> > > have some
> > > hardware-level or RTL-level/simulation tool to debug such issues
> > > at
> > > Altera ?
> >
> > I hardly use simulation except for in house pre-silicon validation.
> > But
> > I use DS-5 a lot to troubleshoot an issue (by probing various
> > registers
> > including cp15).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chin Liang
> >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Marek Vasut
>
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut