linux booting fails on ppc440x5 with SRAM
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Fri Oct 9 22:33:38 EST 2009
Dear Vineeth _,
In message <a9b543570910090320t1444f8f1qf4c8ab7dbbef679f at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> We ported the uboot Memory test and tested the 15MB ram and it was
> successful.interestingly we have only 16MB SRAM in our board.We used 1
Such a memory test means nothing. The only thing you can learn from it
is that basic read and write accesses are working. You don;t get any
information about the behaviour for burst mode accesses from such a
test. See the FAQ at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxCrashesRandomly and at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootCrashAfterRelocation
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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