[RFC only] ARM: i.MX: Fix SDRAM size detect

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Apr 26 07:42:13 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:12:56PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:21:54PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > This is a trying to fix problem described in:
> > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/barebox/2013-April/014182.html
> > 
> > Sorry, can you explain what the problem is and how this patch fixes
> > that?
> > How I understood it the problem was that your board had the second chip
> > select enabled without having sdram connected there leading to a wrong
> > size detection.
> ...
> > > +	arm_add_mem_device("ram0", MX51_CSD0_BASE_ADDR, size);
> > 
> > With this patch you imply that imx_v3_sdram_size does not work which was
> > never mentioned in the thread you reference.
> > 
> > Can you please post:
> > 
> > - Which values the sdram controller is programmed with
> > - How much memory you really have
> > - what barebox detects
> 
> Values for ESDCTL is programmed by DCD-data from flash_header.

Yes, that happens on most i.MX using DCD data

> Currently both channels are enabled and configured to 256M.
> Barebox is NOT detect size of memory, it just a read back these values.

Yes.

> At least on every i.MX51 this is not works correctly. In any words:
> How much we specify in flash_header, this is our "detected" size.

Yes.

> I have a two modules (256M and 512M),

How is the layout? for 256M do you have a single chipselect with 256M or
two chipselects with 128M each?

Can you please post the output of:

md 0x83fd9000+0x10

Sascha

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