On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:14:35AM -0700, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > I've been trying to get a WRS 8265 to do a warm reboot, and found some > things that I am wondering about. > > Firstly, is anyone having success on having "reboot" restart the machine > on a similar platform? > > Secondly, the default BOOTROM_RESTART_ADDR is 0x40000104 (sbc82xx.h) and I > was wondering if this matches any platforms out there. On this board, the > place where U-Boot lives is 0xFFF00104 -- and I've verified this by typing > "g fff00104" at the U-Boot prompt which causes U-Boot to simply restart. > > I've changed the value in sbc82xx.h and now at the reboot, instead of a > register dump, it simply hangs. Looking at m8260_gorom (in kernel/head.S) > it clears the MSR_EE (ext int. enable) bit in the MSR before jumping -- > but I was wondering if there are other bits in MSR that need to be > cleared; e.g. instruction relocation enable and data relocation enable > (MSR_IR and MSR_DR). The register bits are on p76 of MPCFPE32B.pdf from > Freescale. > > I guess if somebody even said "it works for me" then I'd have a better > feeling thinking that what is done to the MSR currently is sufficient.
I don't have any problems using reboot() on 8248 based board. Kernel.org-based 2.4.29 tree. I have U-Boot at 0xfe00'0000, and I use 0xfe00'0104 as a second parameter for m8260_gorom. Also make sure that first parameter is also correct: m8260_gorom(__pa(__res), 0xfe000104); -- Eugene