memory corruption after MMU turned on

Lei Sun leisun124 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 03:47:01 EST 2006


No, i didn't do the burst memory test, how do i do it then ?

On 11/17/06, Dave Liu <r63238 at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:44 -0500, Lei Sun wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >    I am trying to bring up customized board based on MPC8270, the
> > kernel version is 2.4.30, it works fine on one of the Eval board
> > (PQ2FADS-VR, which use MPC8275).
> >    The kernel hangs after uncompressing is done, further debug shows
> > that it hangs right after "rfi " instruction of the turn_on_mmu:
> > function in head.S
> >
> >  turn_on_mmu:
> >     240     mfmsr   r0
> >     241     ori r0,r0,MSR_DR|MSR_IR
> >     242     mtspr   SRR1,r0
> >     243     lis r0,start_here at h
> >     244     ori r0,r0,start_here at l
> >     245     mtspr   SRR0,r0
> >     246     SYNC
> >     247     RFI             /* enables MMU */
> >
> > After i step over the RFI instruction, the PC points to C000XXX , but
> > all memory content is 0 by then.
> > my BATU0 is 0xC000FFE0  BATL0 is 0x00000002, I have 128MB RAM. The
> > u-boot works fine, without MMU turned on. We do have some hardware
> > problem, such that i have to lower the bus frequency to make the SDRAM
> > stable. What physical parameter could cause the board not working with
> > MMU on?
>
> When MMU turn on, the kernel memory should be cacheable, so the
> processor will burst read instructions from memory to i-cache. Did you
> do the burst read/write memory test in u-boot? As you said, you did not
> do the test.
>
> -Dave
>
>
>



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