Hi all,

We've been stuck for about 3 weeks trying to run u-boot on our custom 8548 board. Its failing in the generic start.S code, independent of what TLB's we have. We've tracked this down to be hardware, but after much head scratching and many official support contacts, we are without any solid theories on the cause.

On the 8548 CDS board, we've been able to load the same code up until where the start.S TLB loop completes via the BDI and 'load', ie, in memory:

cds8548>load Loading E:/temp/dump.bin , please wait .... Loading program file passed cds8548>verify Verifying E:/temp/dump.bin , please wait .... Verifying target memory passed cds8548>bi 0xfffff0f4 Breakpoint identification is 0 cds8548>go 0xfffff000 - TARGET: core #0 has entered debug mode cds8548>info Target CPU : MPC85xx (e500v2 rev.2) Core state : halted Debug entry cause : instruction breakpoint Current PC : 0xfffff0f4 Current CR : 0x00000000 Current MSR : 0x00000200 Current LR : 0xfffff0b4 Current CCSRBAR : 0x0_ff700000 cds8548> cds8548>l2cam 0 15 IDX PID EPN SIZE V TS RPN U0-U3 WIMGE UUUSSS 0 : 00 fc000000 64MB V 0 -> 0_fc000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 1 : 00 f8000000 64MB V 0 -> 0_f8000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 2 : 00 80000000 1GB V 0 -> 0_80000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 3 : 00 c0000000 256MB V 0 -> 0_c0000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 4 : 00 d0000000 256MB V 0 -> 0_d0000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 5 : 00 e0000000 64MB V 0 -> 0_e0000000 0000 -I-G- ---RWX 6 : c5 82c78000 64MB - 1 -> c_fb779000 1101 -I-GE ----W- 7 : 57 54d8f000 1TB - 0 -> 4_ffaff000 0100 -I--E -WXR-X 8 : 6a 089af000 64GB - 0 -> 5_b5123000 1001 W-M-E -W---X 9 : 5b 64ba2000 64GB - 1 -> 2_c7e59000 1111 ----- --XRW- 10 : a1 8e25e000 64MB - 1 -> 0_27e74000 1000 WI-G- RWXRWX 11 : 07 7a8b3000 16GB - 0 -> 4_6f030000 1111 -I-G- --X-W- 12 : 98 df40d000 64KB - 1 -> 9_d46b9000 0001 -IMGE RWXRWX 13 : 62 94e78000 64MB - 1 -> c_b7ba8000 1110 WI--E --X--X 14 : cb 9cc65000 256MB - 0 -> 1_8a73f000 0010 W--GE -----X 15 : 57 31338000 1TB - 1 -> 8_a323b000 0100 WI-G- R----X cds8548>

Where 0xfffff0f4 is:

180 lis r4,CFG_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT@h

On our custom hardware running the same u-boot code that ran fine on CDS, we get a crash when simply assigning the number of TLB's before the loop. We've tried only one TLB and simpler code, but nothing is working.

When running from L2SRAM, as the above example show's CDS running just fine, on our custom hardware we cannot assign the values from the registers r6-r9 to the MAS0-MAS3 and then the code crashes in the start.S TLB loop.

The crash from flash might indicate a problem with our external memory controller, but the fact that the same code that runs fine on the CDS board via 'load' from memory while not able to assign values to the MAS0-MAS3 memory is leaving us in doubt what could be the cause.

Any suggestions highly appreciated, Robert