uboot-mt623x

History

Becky Bruce 9973e3c614 Change initdram() return type to phys_size_t This patch changes the return type of initdram() from long int to phys_size_t. This is required for a couple of reasons: long int limits the amount of dram to 2GB, and u-boot in general is moving over to phys_size_t to represent the size of physical memory. phys_size_t is defined as an unsigned long on almost all current platforms. This patch only changes the return type of the initdram function (in include/common.h, as well as in each board's implementation of initdram). It does not actually modify the code inside the function on any of the platforms; platforms which wish to support more than 2GB of DRAM will need to modify their initdram() function code. Build tested with MAKEALL for ppc, arm, mips, mips-el. Booted on powerpc MPC8641HPCN. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>		2008-06-12 08:50:18 +02:00
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Makefile	Move "ar" flags to config.mk to allow for silent "make -s"	2006-10-09 01:02:05 +02:00
README	Cleanup	2004-10-11 23:10:30 +00:00
config.mk	* Patch by Steven Scholz, 10 Oct 2003	2003-10-09 20:09:04 +00:00
dbau1x00.c	Change initdram() return type to phys_size_t	2008-06-12 08:50:18 +02:00
flash.c	* Patch by Steven Scholz, 10 Oct 2003	2003-10-09 20:09:04 +00:00
lowlevel_init.S	[MIPS] Kill unused <version.h> inclusions	2008-06-05 22:29:00 +09:00
u-boot.lds	Fix linker scripts: add NOLOAD atribute to .bss/.sbss sections	2008-01-12 20:31:39 +01:00

README

By Thomas.Lange@corelatus.se 2004-Oct-05
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DbAu1xx0 are development boards from AMD containing
an Alchemy AU1xx0 series cpu with mips32 core.
Existing cpu:s are Au1000, Au1100, Au1500 and Au1550

Limitations & comments
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Support was originally big endian only.
I have not tested, but several u-boot users report working
configurations in little endian mode.

I named the board dbau1x00, to allow
support for all three development boards
( dbau1000, dbau1100 and dbau1500 ).
Now there is a new board called dbau1550 also, which
should be supported RSN.

I only have a dbau1000, so my testing is limited
to this board.

The board has two different flash banks, that can
be selected via dip switch. This makes it possible
to test new bootloaders without thrashing the YAMON
boot loader delivered with board.

NOTE! When you switch between the two boot flashes, the
base addresses will be swapped.
Have this in mind when you compile u-boot. TEXT_BASE has
to match the address where u-boot is located when you
actually launch.

Ethernet only supported for mac0.

PCMCIA only supported for slot 0, only 3.3V.

PCMCIA IDE tested with Sandisk Compact Flash and
IBM microdrive.

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########     NOTE!!!!!!   #########
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If you partition a disk on another system (e.g. laptop),
all bytes will be swapped on 16bit level when using
PCMCIA and running cpu in big endian mode!!!!

This is probably due to an error in Au1000 chip.

Solution:

a) Boot via network and partition disk directly from
dbau1x00. The endian will then be correct.

b) Partition disk on "laptop" and fill it with all files
you need. Then write a simple program that endian swaps
whole disk,

Example:
Original "laptop" byte order:
B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9...

Dbau1000 byte order will then be:
B1 B0 B3 B2 B5 B4 B7 B6 B9 B8...