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| Notes for the MIPS architecture port of U-Boot |
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| Toolchains |
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| http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK |
| ELDK < DULG < DENX |
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| http://www.emdebian.org/crosstools.html |
| Embedded Debian -- Cross-development toolchains |
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| http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ |
| Buildroot |
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| Known Issues |
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| * Little endian build problem |
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| If use non-ELDK toolchains, -EB will be set to CPPFLAGS. Therefore all |
| objects will be generated in big-endian format. |
| |
| * Cache incoherency issue caused by do_bootelf_exec() at cmd_elf.c |
| |
| Cache will be disabled before entering the loaded ELF image without |
| writing back and invalidating cache lines. This leads to cache |
| incoherency in most cases, unless the code gets loaded after U-Boot |
| re-initializes the cache. The more common uImage 'bootm' command does |
| not suffer this problem. |
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| [workaround] To avoid this cache incoherency, |
| 1) insert flush_cache(all) before calling dcache_disable(), or |
| 2) fix dcache_disable() to do both flushing and disabling cache. |
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| * Note that Linux users need to kill dcache_disable() in do_bootelf_exec() |
| or override do_bootelf_exec() not to disable I-/D-caches, because most |
| Linux/MIPS ports don't re-enable caches after entering kernel_entry. |
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| TODOs |
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| * Probe CPU types, I-/D-cache and TLB size etc. automatically |
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| * Secondary cache support missing |
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| * Centralize the link directive files |
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| * Initialize TLB entries redardless of their use |
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| * R2000/R3000 class parts are not supported |
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| * Limited testing across different MIPS variants |
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| * Due to cache initialization issues, the DRAM on board must be |
| initialized in board specific assembler language before the cache init |
| code is run -- that is, initialize the DRAM in lowlevel_init(). |
