On Friday, October 18, 2013 10:25:27 AM UTC-7, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2013-07-29#4520613;
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> 10:10 <Tsvetan> the reason we made 384Mhz image is, because when we had enough
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>                 boards produced
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> 10:10 <Tsvetan> we noticed that 20% of A20 boards fail on clock more than 
> 400Mhz
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> 10:11 <Tsvetan> replacing the A20 chips on them make them alive
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> 10:11 <Tsvetan> which made us think that A20 chips have some tolerances and
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>                 not all can run above 400Mhz
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> 10:11 <wingrime> Tsvetan: хи
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> 10:11 <Tsvetan> I ask Tom and he observed the same
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> 10:11 <Tsvetan> so we decided to generate images with 384 to be on the
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>                 safe side to all boards
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> 10:12 <Tsvetan> 80% of the boards still can run up to 480Mhz
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> 10:12 <Tsvetan> btw datasheet say nothing for max safe frequency
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> 10:12 <Tsvetan> we found this in fiel
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> 10:12 <wingrime> Tsvetan: we still not have any auto testing framework
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> 10:12 <Tsvetan> field
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> 10:12 <oliv3r> wingrime: you mean for dram timings?
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> 10:13 <wingrime> oliv3r: yex, some mistery
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> 10:13 <Tsvetan> so running at 400-432-480 may work
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> 10:13 <oliv3r> i guess it's with overlcocking a PC, you get it with a safe
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>                setting, and then overclock it to whatever works for you
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> 10:13 <Tsvetan> but you do not know what tolerances your chips have
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> 10:13 <Tsvetan> and when it will fail infield
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> 10:13 <wingrime> Tsvetan: are you using same dram ic ?
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> 10:13 <oliv3r> Tsvetan: so cubieboard2 also runs at 384 MHz by default now?
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> 10:13 <Tsvetan> same memory chips
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> 10:13 <Tsvetan> BTW A10 chips do not suffer this problem
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> 10:14 <Tsvetan> and work fine on same layout up to 480Mhz
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> 10:14 <Tsvetan> so its up to you at what memory clock you want to run your 
> board
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> 10:14 <Tsvetan> our statistic though says to stay at 384 to be on the safe 
> side
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> 10:15 <oliv3r> better safe then sorry ;)
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> The 480MHz dram clock frequency has been also confirmed to cause problems
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> for at least one user at www.cubieforums.com when running Qt5.
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> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <[email protected]>
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> ---
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>  board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c | 2 +-
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>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> diff --git a/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c b/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
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> index 370a3d9..287673c 100644
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> --- a/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
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> +++ b/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
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> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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>  #include <asm/arch/dram.h>
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>  
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>  static struct dram_para dram_para = {
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> -     .clock = 480,
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> +     .clock = 384,
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>       .type = 3,
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>       .rank_num = 1,
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>       .density = 4096,
> 
> -- 
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> 1.8.1.5

How to do this for nand boot loader?

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