Hi everyone,
I was trying to get the USB Host MSD Command bare-metal example to work when using the external SDRAM. The example was modified to work with a custom board I have (added DCD to setup XIP w/ QSPI flash and SEMC for SDRAM, VBUS control), and the modified example works when using SRAM_DTC; my USB drive enumerates and the test executes successfully.
However, when I modify the example to use SDRAM instead of SRAM_DTC, my USB drive fails to enumerate. It appears that the stack doesn't receive any data, causing it to timeout the enumeration process.
I had seen that other people had issues with parts of the SDK not working when buffers are located in cacheable memory, so I went through and updated my project based off the following posts, and I could see that some of the USB buffers moved to the non-cacheable region I defined in SDRAM. However, my drive still would not enumerate.
Using NonCached Memory on i.MXRT
MCUX on RT1050 - MMC stack won't initialize
IMXRT1050 USB DEVICE examples fail to run from OCRAM
My main question is: How can I get the USB stack to work with a non-cacheable section defined in SDRAM?
Below I've attached parts of my project setup in case I've missed something.
Many thanks,
jg_sung



Here are my modified MPU regions: I added region 13 (seems redundant b/c of region 10) and updated region 9's size to match my defined memory layout. The rest of the regions are original to the example.
/*
* Add default region to deny access to whole address space to workaround speculative prefetch.
* Refer to Arm errata 1013783-B for more details.
*
*/
/* Region 0 setting: Instruction access disabled, No data access permission. */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(0, 0x00000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(1, ARM_MPU_AP_NONE, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_4GB);
/* Region 1 setting: Memory with Device type, not shareable, non-cacheable. */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(1, 0x80000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_512MB);
/* Region 2 setting: Memory with Device type, not shareable, non-cacheable. */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(2, 0x60000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_512MB);
#if defined(XIP_EXTERNAL_FLASH) && (XIP_EXTERNAL_FLASH == 1)
/* Region 3 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back. */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(3, 0x60000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_RO, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_8MB);
#endif
/* Region 4 setting: Memory with Device type, not shareable, non-cacheable. */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(4, 0x00000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_1GB);
/* Region 5 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(5, 0x00000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_128KB);
/* Region 6 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(6, 0x20000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_128KB);
/* Region 7 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(7, 0x20200000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_512KB);
/* Region 8 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(8, 0x20280000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_256KB);
/* Region 9 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, outer/inner write back */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(9, 0x80000000U);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_8MB);
while ((size >> i) > 0x1U)
{
i++;
}
if (i != 0)
{
/* The MPU region size should be 2^N, 5<=N<=32, region base should be multiples of size. */
assert(!(nonCacheStart % size));
assert(size == (uint32_t)(1 << i));
assert(i >= 5);
/* Region 10 setting: Memory with Normal type, not shareable, non-cacheable */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(10, nonCacheStart);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, i - 1);
}
/* Region 10 setting: Memory with Device type, not shareable, non-cacheable */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(11, 0x40000000);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_4MB);
/* Region 12 setting: Memory with Device type, not shareable, non-cacheable */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(12, 0x42000000);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_1MB);
/* Region 13 setting: Memory with non-cacheable */
MPU->RBAR = ARM_MPU_RBAR(13, 0x80800000);
MPU->RASR = ARM_MPU_RASR(0, ARM_MPU_AP_FULL, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, ARM_MPU_REGION_SIZE_8MB);