EP7312 can't use 32MB DRAM (fwd)

[shadow]

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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:29:19 +0800 (CST)
From: shadow <saturn at structure.biochem.nchu.edu.tw>
To: PA Nilsson <pa at glaze.se>
Subject: RE: EP7312 can't use 32MB DRAM

Thanks for your suggestion.
I had modified my source code but still can not work.
 mi->bank[0].start = 0xc0000000;
 mi->bank[0].size = 32*1024*1024;
 mi->bank[0].node = 0;
 mi->nr_banks = 1;

I also rewrited my bootloader(hermit), in the linux.c, I specified
page_size, page_number, page_number_in_bank. 

	/* system page size */
        ps->u1.s.page_size = 0x1000;
	/* number of pages in all banks */
	ps->u1.s.nr_pages = 8192;
	/* pages per bank */
	ps->u1.s.pages_in_bank[0] = 8192;


In hermit's boot.S, I reconfigured the SDRAM size, 32MB.
	
	mov r1, #0x42 		/* 32MB */
        add r1, r1, #0x0500
        mov r2, #0x2300
        add r2, r2, r0
        str r1, [r2]

        mov r1, #0x240                  /* 36MHz SDRAM refresh period */
        mov r2, #0x2340
        add r2, r2, r0
        str r1, [r2]

I wonder the above initial code of SDRAM, if it is also needed by linux 
kernel's boot.S or it only needed to executed once at the bootloader ?

Sadly, it still can not work after the above course.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Brian



On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, PA Nilsson wrote:

> Since I am a hardware designer, software is not my strongest side but this
> might help you.
> 
> You do not write anything about what board you are running on, but here is
> one possibility why your code might crash:
> 
> If your board is set up with two 16-bit wide DRAMs to form a 32-bit wide
> bus, all of your memory will be located in the same bank, not over both
> banks. That would mean that you should only configure one bank, but twice
> the size.
> 
> Make sure that you have set up your DRAM-controller in your bootloader
> aswell, depending on the physical layout on the board.
> 
> /PA
>