Fwd: PXA270 flash

Takács Áron takacs.aron at infracont.hu
Thu Sep 20 06:42:30 EDT 2012


Any Ideas?

2012-09-19 09:23 keltezéssel, Takács Áron írta:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have the following problem:
> I have been using a PXA270 based board (Toradex Colibri) with linux
> -.6.35.5. Now I decided to move to linux-3.6-rc4. At first I made a
> simple 'make colibri_pxa270_defconfig'+ 'make vmlinux' to build the
> kernel. It builds ok, it can be started from u-boot, but it doesn't find
> the onboard flash. The boot messages are the following:
>
> [    0.697232] physmap platform flash device: 02000000 at 00000000
> [    1.653417] CFI: Found no physmap-flash.0 device at location zero
> [    1.664090] physmap-flash physmap-flash.0: map_probe failed
>
> I don't know if it is related to the flash problem but there is another
> interesting message right at the beginning of the boot process:
>
> [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0
> [    0.000000] Linux version 3.6.0-rc4 (roni at Roni-laptop) (gcc version
> 4.6.3 (S2
> [    0.000000] BUG: mapping for 0x00000000 at 0xff000000 out of vmalloc
> space   <<<<<<<<<
> [    0.000000] Run Mode clock: 208.00MHz (*16)
> [    0.000000] Turbo Mode clock: 520.00MHz (*2.5, active)
> [    0.000000] Memory clock: 208.00MHz (/2)
> [    0.000000] System bus clock: 208.00MHz
>
>
> When I run the 2.6.35.5 kernel on the same board, it finds the flash and
> the partitions on it too.
> Information: The Colibri board has two 16bit flash chips put on the
> 32bit bus (parallel).
> I have traced down the problem to the flash probing routine
> 'cfi_qry_mode_on()'. With the 2.6.35.5 kernel it writes 0xf000f0 and
> then 0x980098 to the flash to put it into query mode (cfi_util.c:57-58).
> Then it reads (in function cfi_qry_present() at cfi_utils:37-39)
> 0x510051, 0x520052, 0x590059 from the flash. 51, 52, 59 are the ascii
> values for 'Q', 'R', and 'Y' as expected.
> In the case of the 3.6-rc4 kernel the values given to the
> '__raw_writel()' function at map.h:421 are 0xf000f0 and 0x980098. It
> seems to be ok.
> But the values read back are: 0x510000, 0x520000, 0x590000. I think
> these should be 0x510051, 0x520052, 0x590059 as are in the case of the
> 2.6.35.5 kernel.
>
> Now, I am stuck with it. I have tried it with linux-3.5.4 and
> linux-3.6-rc6, too. The situation is the same.
> Could somebody please help me solving this? I don't know what I am doing
> wrong.
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Best regards,
>
>     Áron
>
> p.s.: Sorry for my poor English, I hope you understand the problem!
>
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