[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 0/7] add support for atheros ath79 based SOCs

[Wills Wang <wills.wang@live.com>]

On Thursday, January 21, 2016 09:32 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 01:21:29 PM, Wills Wang wrote:
>> On 01/17/2016 06:24 PM, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
>>> 2016-01-17 6:49 GMT+01:00 Wills Wang <wills.wang@live.com>:
>>>> On 01/17/2016 03:05 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 07:13:46 PM, Wills Wang wrote:
>>>>>> These series of patch add support for atheros ath79 based SOCs in
>>>>>> u-boot, at the present moment it's just available for ar933x and
>>>>>> qca953x chip.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch serises is based on mips_io_v4 branch on u-boot-mips
>>>>>> repository
>>>>>> [1] and tested on ar933x and qca953x board.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-mips.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/m
>>>>>> ips_ io_v4
>>>>> So if I didn't complain about this being sent as separate emails this
>>>>> morning.
>>>>> Please, do send your patches as a series, not as separate emails.
>>>> How to send a patch series by patman?
>>> If your git-sendmail config is correctly set up, patman automatically
>>> sends the cover letter and then all patches as response to that cover
>>> letter.
>>>
>>> You have to enable mail threading in git-sendmail. Check that with:
>>>
>>> $ git config --get sendemail.thread
>>>
>>> To enable it globally:
>>>
>>> $ git config --global sendemail.thread true
>> Thanks, i will try it for the coming v8.
> I got as far as booting my ar9330 rev 1 machine, though it did take considerably
> amount of hackery. I also had to use locked cachelines for stack, because it is
> far faster than using the SRAM on ar9331 . You can find my hacks in the
> attachment, most of the stuff there is because arduino yun is repugnant crappy
> piece of hardware and needs some extra treatment.
>
> You should mostly care about the hacks in start.S , in particular the one
> setting bit 3 in CP0 in setup_c0_status seems important on mips 24kc core.
> Daniel seems to have some ideas on this too I think, he helped me finding
> out there's a problem.
>
> Also, mips_cache_lock_24k does the job for locking the cachelines, but (!) it
> is clearly a dirty hack. The start.S needs to be modularized in some way for
> this to be properly integrat(ed|able).
>
> In case I select SYS_MIPS_CACHE_INIT_RAM_LOAD , the machine hangs. No idea why,
> but I suspect it makes no sense on a machine which has no running DRAM anyway,
> so I removed this option.
>
> Change to ddr.c seems correct, the values for DDR1 and DDR2 were swapped, but
> I suggest you double-check it.
>
> Ignore my AHB hack in lowlevel_init.S , it's necessary to keep my SPI NOR
> running at low speed, since I am using an FPGA instead of real SPI NOR and
> the FPGA implementation of the SPI NOR emulator cannot run at tens of MHz.
>
> I am now looking into implementing ethernet and USB support for ar9331, did
> you look into it at all or not ? I'd like to avoid duplicating efforts.

-#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE            0x9f000000
+#define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE            0xbf000000

Why need this change?

> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut

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Best Regards
Wills