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RE: sdram scrubbing and MMU enabling.



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> >> > enabling MMU and then scrubbing sdram starting from 
> >> RAM_BASE i.e A0000000.
> >> > Now, my doubt is:
> >> > since we have mapped the first 4K of RAM to flash,
> >> > 	[ mmu_table_rambase:
> >> > 	        // Map 4k page at 0xa0000000 virt --> 
> >> 0x00000000 physical
> >> > 	        //   Read-Write, cacheable, non-bufferable ]
> >> > does that mean writing a 0x00 to a0000000 is same as 
> >> writing to flash?
> >> > Am i missing something here?
> >> 
> >> No, its a problem. It came up this week on the ARM linux 
> >> kernel mailing list.
> >> I'm working on a fix.
> >> 
> >> --Mark
> >> 
> > what i am doing is scrubbing and then enabling mmu.
> 
> I was told by the hw designer that that would not work. Scrubbing
> needs to occur with the dcache/ECC turned on which means the MMU
> must be on.
> 
> There is also a related problem where the first 1MB of SDRAM does
> not have ECC turned on. Since the board is populated with ECC RAM,
> its likely that single bit errors will occur and go undetected.
> 
> --Mark

  I am going thru 80312's documentation page 3-31, section
  3.2.4.4 and it's related to Scrubbing. This doesn't say anything
  about cache's. Is it in someother section? also, where can i find
  info about first 1MB of sdram stuff?
  
Venkat


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