Hi,
I used the same strategy, but had similar issues.
So I just skip the first couple of 1000 bytes.
I'd like to find out why too.
Also, memory wraps. If I have 32MB of RAM @ 0x80000000,
then run the memory test in non-existent memory from
0x82000000 to 0x83ffffff it appears to reference 0x80000000
to 0x81ffffff. Can this be made to fail?
Lyle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org
> [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Baitis
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 5:27 PM
> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Power On Self Test and testing memory
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> I implemented memory tests in my bootloader code for the
> AU1500. I'm trying to figure out why Linux boots when loaded
> into cached KSEG0 (0x 80c0 0000), but my memory test FAILS
> for this same region.
>
> (pretty backwards huh? get linux booting, then write memory tests!)
>
>
> I start by writing 0x5555 5555 to all of uncached memory,
> reading it back, and I write 0xAAAA AAAA to all of uncached
> memory and read it back.
>
> This works great.
>
> Next, I try to write 0x5555 5555 to cached KSEG0 memory, and
> it fails at addr 0x8000FE50. But Linux boots!
>
> I'm not issuing SYNC commands when writing to cached memory;
> could this be the problem?
>
> We've exhaustively verified the memory burst parameters, etc.
> They look good.
>
> Thank you in advance for your ideas!
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
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>
> Evolution Robotics, Inc.
> 130 West Union Street
> Pasadena CA 91103
>
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