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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [Rock Pi 4+] Mainline LPDDR4 RAM initialisation is not sufficient to boot successfully
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:15:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YquBUfkaScI2txiA@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yo4v3jUeHXTovjOH@google.com>

On Wed, 25 May 2022, Lee Jones wrote:

> Good afternoon,                                                                             
>                                                                                             
> There appear to be a number of issues with the Rockchip rk3399 DDR RAM                      
> initialisation sequence in Mainline.  Specifically, I'm seeing                              
> consistent failures on the Rock Pi 4+ during early boot.

Can anyone from Rockchip help with this please?

What does the binary blob [0] do differently to the U-boot
implementation.

Are you able to publish the source for the DDR binary blob?

Please help me fix U-boot.

[0] https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin/blob/master/bin/rk33/rk3399_ddr_933MHz_v1.25.bin

> A typical failure looks something like this:                                                          
>                                                                                             
>   U-Boot TPL 2022.07-rc3-00005-g1b04a961c6 (May 25 2022 - 11:09:19)                         
>   Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz                                                                  
>   BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB                                
>   Channel 1: col error                                                                      
>   Cap error!                                                                                
>   256B stride                                                                               
>   lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1                                        
>   lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0                                        
>   Trying to boot from BOOTROM                                                               
>   Returning to boot ROM...                                                                  
>                                                                                             
> Even when the system boots to a terminal, which happens very                                
> infrequently, the LPDDR4 RAM chip at Channel 1 can have conflicting                         
> discovery information printed during TPL.  The following 3 lines were                       
> printed during successive reboots using the same SD card with no                            
> changes:                                                                                    
>                                                                                             
>   # Boot 1:                                                                                 
>   BW=32 Col=9 Bk=4 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=384MB                                  
>                                                                                             
>   # Boot 2:                                                                                 
>   BW=32 Col=10 Bk=4 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=768MB                                 
>                                                                                             
>   # Boot 3:                                                                                 
>   BW=32 Col=10 Bk=4 CS0 Row=15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=512MB                                    
>                                                                                             
> The story changes when I build the idbloader.img image with Rockchip's                      
> TBL (?) binary blob [0].  With that built in, presumably in place of                        
> the upstream TBL, both RAM chips are successfully enumerated and boot                       
> succeeds with 100% success rate:                                                            
>                                                                                             
>   tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rksd -d \                                                      
>     rk3399_ddr_933MHz_v1.25.bin:spl/u-boot-spl.bin idbloader.img                            
>                                                                                             
> Another thing that is very different between the 2 is the initial                           
> frequency the LPDDR4 chips are clocked at.  Using the upstream TBL                          
> version, the default is 50Mhz, which seems very low.  If using the                          
> Rockchip supplied binary blob file, this is increased to a respectable                      
> 416MHz:                                                                                     
>                                                                                             
>   # Mainline                                                                                
>   Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz                                                                  
>                                                                                             
>   # Rockchip TBL blob                                                                       
>   Channel 0: LPDDR4,416MHz                                                                  
>                                                                                             
> One thing I did try was to load in the 400Mhz configuration settings                        
> from drivers/ram/rockchip/sdram-rk3399-lpddr4-400.inc as the default                        
> initial values, instead of the 50MHz default taken from                                     
> arch/arm/dts/rk3399-sdram-lpddr4-100.dtsi, but this failed in a number                      
> of ways:                                                                                    
>                                                                                             
>   Setting clock: Freq: 400MHz (400000000)                                                   
>   Calling SDRAM init: 2 Channels                                                            
>   Starting SDRAM initialization...                                                          
>     mr5:0  mr12:0  mr14:0                                                                   
>     Training failed for rank 2, ch 0 (ret: -22)                                             
>     mr5:0  mr12:0  mr14:0                                                                   
>     Training failed for rank 1, ch 0 (ret: -22)                                             
>     mr5:0  mr12:0  mr14:0                                                                   
>     Training failed for rank 2, ch 1 (ret: -22)                                             
>     mr5:0  mr12:0  mr14:0                                                                   
>     Training failed for rank 1, ch 1 (ret: -22)                                             
>     Rank for Channel 1 is 0x0                                                               
>     Rank for Channel 0 is 0x0                                                               
>     Rank for Channel 1 is 0x0                                                               
>   sdram_init: LPDDR4 - 400MHz failed!                                                       
>   rk3399_dmc_init DRAM init failed -22                                                      
>                                                                                             
> So my question is; does Rockchip, or anyone else for that matter, have                      
> any plans on updating Mainline U-Boot with the upgraded/working LPDDR4                      
> initialisation sequence?                                                                    
>                                                                                             
> As ever, any information / help would be gratefully received.                               
>                                                                                             
> NB: If I have missed any critical people out from this discussion,                          
> please feel free to loop as many of them in as you see fit.                                 
>                                                                                             
> Kind regards,                                                                               
> Lee                                                                                         
>                                                                                             
> [0] https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin/blob/master/bin/rk33/rk3399_ddr_933MHz_v1.25.bin
> 

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Principal Technical Lead - Developer Services
Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-16 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-25 13:32 [Rock Pi 4+] Mainline LPDDR4 RAM initialisation is not sufficient to boot successfully Lee Jones
2022-06-16 19:15 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2022-06-17 12:06   ` cym
2022-06-17 16:50     ` Lee Jones

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