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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Zynq support for barebox
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:10:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130308161024.GH32347@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130308063918.GB18166@pengutronix.de>

On 07:39 Fri 08 Mar     , Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 04:46:25PM -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:09:29AM -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> > [..]
> > > > > I have some patches laying around, that have support for booting first stage
> > > > > from a SD-Card on a ZedBoard. I didn't send them as of yet, because I'm not
> > > > > completely satisfied with them in one or two places. (The clocksource seems to
> > > > > be inverse to what barebox expects, which would be a quick fix, and barebox boots
> > > > > uuultra slow, if I do everything according to the TRM)
> > > > > At the moment, I do not have access to the board though. But I hope I can get a
> > > > > hand on it in the next days.
> > > > 
> > > > If you have a chance to send out what you have, I'd be curious to see
> > > > it.  Fortunately I have several Zynq boards to play with.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Have a look at
> > > http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=str/barebox.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > I "stole" your clk driver and added it to my patch stack :-)
> > > Current state for ZedBoard:
> > > 	- boot first stage from SD-Card
> > > 		- barebox.bin needs to be processed with
> > > 		./scripts/zynq_checksum barebox.bin BOOT.bin
> > > 		to have the checksum in the BootROM header
> > > 	- clocksource is arm_smp_tmd at seems accurate
> > > 	- the BootROM needs about 4-5 seconds to copy barebox from
> > > 	  SD to the OCM. I guess, I need to mess with the SD setup
> > > 	  in the BootROM somehow
> > > 	- just enough clkdev to use the timer
> > > 	- all pinctrl, clk setup etc happens in the lowlevel init
> 
> Hi Josh!
> 
> > 
> > Hey Steffen-
> > 
> > Thanks for sharing this! I'll be looking to get board support for the
> > zc702 on top of your work this weekend (I have several Zynq boards, but
> > none of them are ZedBoards).  I'm also in the process of porting the
> > uboot zynq_gem driver.
> 
> First, \o/. I don't know how the two differ. But I would guess, that
> you can pretty much copy the lowlevel stuff et al.
> Only the DDR timing stuff may make problems.
> 
> Second: No! Don't! I'm trying to get drivers/net/macb.c running on Zynq.
> As far as I can tell at the moment, this is a driver for a
> Cadence IP gem. And the zynq uses exactly that IP core.
> Alas, I have problems with the dma_alloc_coherent call in its
> probe function.
this should not give you any trouble execpt if you do not able the l2cache
correctly

I did the port and test that drivers on Cortex-A5
and Nicolas and I work on it to share the code with the kernel

U-Boot does not implement it correctly anyway

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> The same goes for the UART driver and other cores. We should not start
> developing Xilinx drivers for everything, if in reality we have IP cores
> from other providers.
> 
> The same goes for Linux. I haven't managed to boot mainline linux yet,
> but I saw that there are multiple bindings and drivers for Xilinx.
> And the TRM clearly states, that WDT, GEM, SPI, UART and TTC are all
> Cadence IP cores.
> 
> > Do you have plans for submitting this to the list?
> 
> Yes, definitely! I need to cleanup the patches a little and want to
> be sure that I didn't do anything stupidly wrong. The problem with
> dma_alloc is at least a hint, that I maybe did.
> 
> Regards,
> Steffen
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-03  1:20 Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03  0:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] trivial: doc: fix typos in mach-arm.dox Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03  0:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] defaultenv: fixed mismatched braces in bin/boot Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03  0:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] ARM: zynq: add driver for Zynq uarts Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03  7:16   ` Antony Pavlov
2013-03-03 14:55     ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03 10:37   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-03 10:37   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-03  0:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] ARM: zynq: add support for Zynq 7000 SoC Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03  7:24   ` Antony Pavlov
2013-03-05 17:22     ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-05 19:08       ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-03  0:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] ARM: zynq: add support for zc702 development board Josh Cartwright
2013-03-03 10:39   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-05 17:16     ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-05 18:02       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-03 14:58 ` [PATCH 0/5] Zynq support for barebox Steffen Trumtrar
2013-03-05 17:09   ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-06 17:28     ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-03-07 22:46       ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-08  6:39         ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-03-08 12:20           ` Michal Simek
2013-03-08 19:31             ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-03-08 16:10           ` Josh Cartwright
2013-03-08 16:11             ` Steffen Trumtrar
2013-03-08 16:10           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]

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