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Red-Boot & Multiple Flash IC's
- From: sebastian igielski <sebastian dot igielski at kolporter dot com dot pl>
- To: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:23:44 +0200
- Subject: [ECOS] Red-Boot & Multiple Flash IC's
Hi!
We have porting Red-Boot to our platform based on EP9302 microprocessor
(produced by Cirrus Logic, ARM920T core inside). I have one question
about using multiple flash IC's connected to different chip selects, uut
at first I must tell something about our hardware platform.
In a few words, we have on board following IC's:
1x MCU: EP9302 (ARM920T core, 16 bit wide data bus)
4x SDRAM (one SDRAM chip have 32Mbyte capacity, four banks - [8MBytes
per bank]) - Total: 128Mbytes of RAM
2x NOR FLASH (JS28F1283D) (connected to two separate chip selects) (The
NOR flash chips is Intel-Strata FLASH IC's.)
One NOR-FLASH chip have 16-bit data bus. The NOR-Flash chips is placed
at 0x6000_0000 and 0x7000_0000 in physical memory layout. After
configuring and enabling the MMU the NOR-Flash chips is mapped as
follows (virtual address space):
IC #1: 0x6000_0000 - 0x60FF_FFFF
IC #2: 0x6100_0000 - 0x61FF_FFFF
And now is my question about Red-Boot environment. It is possible to
(and how to do it) use both NOR flash chips?
Now I have working only one chip (placed at virtual address:
0x6000_0000-0x60FF_FFFF).
I have no idea how to tell Red-Boot/Strata Flash driver to see my second
NOR-Flash chip. It is possible to RedBoot handle this kind of hardware
configuration?
Some people told me that I must modify the "CYGNUM_FLASH_DEVICES", but
in my humble opinion this variable defines the FLASH IC's needed to
coverage the data bus by multiple FLASH IC's (for example: when I have
32 bit wide data bus, and when I have two 16 bit FLASH IC's to coverage
32-bit data bus - in that case CYGNUM_FLASH_DEVICES must be set to 2).
I'm correct?
In our hardware the data bus is 16-bit wide and FLASH IC is 16 bit wide
(so one flash chip coverage all data bus), the second FLASH IC is used
to extend size of flash memory size. As i written above, I have working
first FLASH CHIP. And I don't know to add second chip to RedBoot
environment.
If anybody can suggest me right solution of my problem, or give any
helpful idea I will be graceful.
I have ecos-2.0 package.
with regards
Sebastian Igielski
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