Re: Porting U-boot on MIPS (Au1350)

[Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>]

>       we are porting U-boot 1.2.0 to MIPS32 Au1350 Processor. i am using ELDK 
> 4.1 for MIPS32.
>
> We have a MIPS CPU which has reset address 0xBFC00000 , this is mapped to NOR 
> flash with XIP in place. The boot block  ( ie 0xBFC00000) is in the top block 
> of the NOR flash and its of 16KB. U-Boot shall be put from address 0xBFC00000 
> in the NOR flash for CPU boot up , since it is the last block (16KB only) we 
> cannot put complete U-Boot , some part of the U-Boot should go to lower 
> blocks . To do this u-boot need to be divided into blocks and we shall 
> provide a jump from the top block to other blocks of NOR flash. We have 
> BDI3000 debugger for flashing the NOR flash and bdiGDB for MIPS.
>
> Is there any NOR flash drivers available which can support the below chip?
>
> NOR Flash chip : M29W160ET --> AM29BX16
> NOR Flash chip size is 0x00200000 --> 2MB

I believe you need to change CS0# decoded range (staddr0 reg) very
early to enable
access to the whole chip.  Put init code at bfc00000, and let it load
the main bootloader
binary from a predefined ROM address to a predefined RAM address and execute.

Manuel