On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:21 AM Stefan Roese sr@denx.de wrote:
However, this is called *after* spl_init, which triggers a DM scan. So at the point where the DM subsystem is aware of the translation offset, drivers might have already cached addresses (priv->base) or even performed initialization (the TWSI i2c module does some configuration at bind time).
Yes, you might be correct here. Thanks for spotting. This might be the root cause for the I2C binding hang reported by Baruch (added to Cc):
https://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=155462955329578&w=2
Is this the same issue that you have noticed?
Yes, the original symptom I was debugging was indeed the mvtwsi I2C bind handler causing an early freeze in SPL. That patch from Baruch seems like it's trying to address the exact same issue. Thanks for pointing it out.
Note that on Turris Omnia the SPL needs a working I2C0 to fetch RAM configuration from an EEPROM. The "band-aid" fix of disabling the debug register write in SPL mode would break Omnia boards in 2GB RAM configuration.