It has been noticed on MT7628/88 platforms, that booting the RAM image does not work reliably. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. Debugging showed that this "might" be a cache related issue as very strange errors occured (output corrupted etc).
This patch adds a cache flush for the complete SDRAM area to the go cmd before jumping to the entry point. The complete area is flushed as we don't know at this point, how big the area of the "application" really is. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierz...@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Condarelli <mc5...@mclink.it> Cc: Weijie Gao <weijie....@mediatek.com> --- cmd/boot.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/cmd/boot.c b/cmd/boot.c index 9150fce80b..968522face 100644 --- a/cmd/boot.c +++ b/cmd/boot.c @@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ */ #include <common.h> #include <command.h> +#include <cpu_func.h> #include <net.h> #ifdef CONFIG_CMD_GO +DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR; + /* Allow ports to override the default behavior */ __attribute__((weak)) unsigned long do_go_exec(ulong (*entry)(int, char * const []), int argc, @@ -33,6 +36,13 @@ static int do_go(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]) printf ("## Starting application at 0x%08lX ...\n", addr); + /* + * Flush cache before jumping to application. Let's flush the + * whole SDRAM area, since we don't know the size of the image + * that was loaded. + */ + flush_cache(gd->bd->bi_memstart, gd->bd->bi_memsize); + /* * pass address parameter as argv[0] (aka command name), * and all remaining args -- 2.25.0