i.mx28 u-boot 2011.12, patches, fec

[wolfgang_gaerbe]

.. Downloaded and compiled latest u-boot 2011.12 for use with mx28evk according platform readme.

U-boot freezes on ping and tftp -

Are there any additional patches needed ?

Browsing the internet I found 2 problems with patches:

1) warm-start issue from kernel

2) MDIO timeout

Are there any other patches needed ?

The 2008.09 u-boot packaged with evk comes with lots of patches.....

Any hints ?

rgds.

[wolfgang_gaerbe]

We use the freescale EVK as well as the final target - somewhat evk clone;-))

FSL kernel worked with patched 2008.09 u-boot - will have a look into that.

Will try the provided patches - and submit my final solution if available.

For some boards I will add serial flash as well.

BTW: Is there some alternate i.mx28 documentation  (source) available ?

We already spent some stupid man-month writing our own drivers for safe-rtos - to figure out all odds on the fec endianess expected from dma, to figure out that ocrram as dma target for spi doesn´t work.... ..... benchmarked gpio/abpx bridge timings,....reverse engineered the ptp timing engine..., realizing that some examples in the manual are estimation based on typos never exercised....

I dont´t want to complain - just thank you for the immediate support ;-))))

Anyway, the documentation for that chip defines a new standard on its own..

Maybe there is another, better documented i.mx platform with more consistant documentation, which can be used as co-reference to the i.mx28 stuff ??

rgds.

[fabio_estevam]

Mainline U-boot boots fine a kernel from kernel.org.

I also see the issue with cpufreq when using a FSL kernel.

in order to avoid this problem I use the attached patch as a workaround. It disables cpufreq support in the kernel.

[fabio_estevam]

m28evk is a board from Denx.

mx28evk is the one from Freescale.

You should use mx28evk_config.

The DMA errors are fixed by this patch:

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-imx.git;a=commit;h=8bfbae6cc37313784f508c7301741f168666119d

NAND is supported in m28evk, but not on mx28evk currently.

It should be straightforward to add NAND support for mx28evk though.

Same thing for I2C.

If you have a chance, please add support for NAND and I2C and submit your patches to the U-boot list.

[wolfgang_gaerbe]

Otherwise I completely failed on adding nand and i2c support to (your) mx28evk config.

Nand probing on u-boot init throws DMA errors, I2C makes hangups (both worked with m28evk config).

I finally ended up using "m28evk" config with board init from your configuration.

Comparing the config files, I still have no clue why nand flash doesn´t work with your config.

Now I have the stuff almost running, kernel freezes at cpufreq init - but there seems to be some evidence for that problem.

rgds

[wolfgang_gaerbe]

Thx for the prompt reply...

Because of the absence of /freescale/mx28_evk, I used m28evk instead (BTW what board is that?, i.mx28 based).

Compared to your config for that board:

CONFIG_MX28_FEC_MAC_IN_OCOTP .... is missing...

Anyway, seems to work with your config...

rgds.

[fabio_estevam]

I have been successfully using mainline U-boot on mx28evk (well, I actually added the support for this board in mainline U-boot ;-)

Can you try the top of tree version from git.denx.de?

Issue 1) I know it is fixed. 2) I have never seen it.

Also, if you still have issues it would be nice to provide your boot log and details to the U-boot mailing list:

u-boot@lists.denx.de