Hi Marek,

On 28.04.2016 00:36, Marek Vasut wrote:
> The indirect write code is buggy pile of nastiness which fails horribly
> when the system runs fast enough to saturate the controller. The failure
> results in some pages (256B) not being written to the flash. This can be
> observed on systems which run with Dcache enabled and L2 cache enabled,
> like the Altera SoCFPGA.
> 
> This patch replaces the whole unmaintainable indirect write implementation
> with the one from upcoming Linux CQSPI driver, which went through multiple
> rounds of thorough review and testing. While this makes the patch look
> terrifying and violates all best-practices of software development, all
> the patch does is it plucks out duplicate ad-hoc code distributed across
> the driver and replaces it with more compact code doing exactly the same
> thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Chin Liang See <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jagan Teki <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefan Roese <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vignesh R <[email protected]>

I've applied both patches and tested them on SR1500 (SPI-NOR used
for booting and redundant environment). This is what I get upon
"saveeenv":

=> saveenv
Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
SF: Detected N25Q128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
Erasing SPI flash...Writing to SPI flash...data abort
pc : [<3ff8368a>]          lr : [<3ff8301b>]
reloc pc : [<010216ca>]    lr : [<0102105b>]
sp : 3bf54eb8  ip : 3ff82f69     fp : 00000002
r10: 00000000  r9 : 3bf5dee8     r8 : ffff0000
r7 : 00000001  r6 : 3bf54f9b     r5 : 00000001  r4 : 3bf5e520
r3 : 00000000  r2 : 3bf54f9b     r1 : 00000001  r0 : ffa00000
Flags: nZCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32
Resetting CPU ...

resetting ...

U-Boot SPL 2016.05-rc3-00009-ge1bf9b8 (Apr 29 2016 - 11:25:46)


Any idea, what might be going wrong here?

Thanks,
Stefan
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