On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > On some Freescale reference boards for SOCs with Fman devices, the Fman > microcode is located at address 0xEF000000 in NOR flash. Unfortunately, > this address is in the "middle of nowhere" and makes it difficult to > partition flash space for other images. > > So we change the expected address to 0xEFF40000, which is the flash > sector adjacent to the environment. To support older boards, we use macro > CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_ADDR_OLD to look for the microcode in the old location > if it cannot be found in the new one. > > The code which uploads the microcode checks the new default location, and > if the microcode is not found, then it checks the old location. This allows > newer U-Boots to work on older boards. However, during boot, the error > messages are a bit confusing: > > Net: Fman1: Data at eff40000 is not a firmware > Fman1: Uploading microcode version 101.8.0 > Fman2: Data at eff40000 is not a firmware > Fman2: Uploading microcode version 101.8.0 > > Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <ti...@freescale.com> > --- > drivers/net/fm/fm.c | 7 +++++++ > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
I see no reason for this patch, if you're flashing a new u-boot flash the microcode to the new address as well. Don't we already have a warning if we don't find the ucode at the expected address. - k _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
