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U-Boot-Users Jerry Van Baren 2 participants 2 messages May 1, 2003 – May 10, 2003 1 message not in the archive

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Sorry, no direct help on CodeWarrior but... stuck in the FP exception would tend to indicate a memory, probably a SDRAM, problem. This is a classic
problem: SDRAM appears to work, but is misconfigured and cache burst reading doesn't work properly. This causes a lot of 0xFFs in the instruction stream and these map into FP instructions, causing the FP exception.

Reading and writing RAM using your CodeWarrior is NOT a good test of SDRAM. Most often you need to do a burst read for it to fail. Burst reads occur (at this point in the game) only when doing an instruction fetch with the instruction cache enabled.

Try running with instruction cache turned off. If it runs slowly but steady :-), you are in the 99% probability it is a SDRAM initialization issue.

gvb

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Hello,

Has anyone of you ever used MetroWerks CodeWarrior to debug U-Boot?

After I've succesfuly compiled the u-boot ELF and binairy I've programmed my flash with the binairy.

Next, I've made a CodeWarrior project using the ELF file output of the GNU Compiler.

I can connect to the PPC and I can view memory, but when I break the running process, the cpu is always stuck at address 0x800 (floating point exception).

Also I cannot view the code in CodeWarrior??

Can someone help me?

Thx Roel

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#2 lore raw

Hi,

Yes, most of debuggers will have a problem
(randomly) if you turn on the cache. And also, you may check the MMU table if it is correct or not. Although you can read/ write the memory, it doesn't mean that the memory can burst.

If you want to see the code in CW, you need to
re-compile the program with CW compiler to generate a symbol table. I tried to do it but it failed. Some of the inline command are not supported by CW and there are a lot of syntax warning.

Wilson

--- Jerry Van Baren
<[email protected]> ??????> Sorry, no direct help on CodeWarrior but... stuck in

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the FP exception would
tend to indicate a memory, probably a SDRAM, problem. This is a classic
problem: SDRAM appears to work, but is misconfigured and cache burst
reading doesn't work properly. This causes a lot of 0xFFs in the
instruction stream and these map into FP instructions, causing the FP
exception.

Reading and writing RAM using your CodeWarrior is NOT a good test of
SDRAM. Most often you need to do a burst read for it to fail. Burst reads
occur (at this point in the game) only when doing an instruction fetch with
the instruction cache enabled.

Try running with instruction cache turned off. If it runs slowly but
steady :-), you are in the 99% probability it is a SDRAM initialization issue.

gvb

Quoted 3 lines · RL at prodrive.nl

Hello,

Has anyone of you ever used MetroWerks CodeWarrior

to debug U-Boot?

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After I've succesfuly compiled the u-boot ELF and

binairy I've programmed my

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flash with the binairy.

Next, I've made a CodeWarrior project using the ELF

file output of the GNU

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Compiler.

I can connect to the PPC and I can view memory, but

when I break the running

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process, the cpu is always stuck at address 0x800

(floating point

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exception).

Also I cannot view the code in CodeWarrior??

Can someone help me?

Thx Roel

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