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coldfire, bad program counter on "rte"

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Hi all,

i ported with small changes/additions u-boot to a custom board with MCF5307. Relocation into ram is done correctly, and monitor works fine except for the timer 2 interrupt:
Once inside the assembly "_int_handler" in start.S, the "rte" cause a vector 3 exception (instruction fetch error).

So i traced the stack/registers from inside the timer interrupt, too see if there is something strange:

U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

CPU:   Freescale Coldfire MCF5307 at 90 MHz
Board: Sysam AMCORE Board
DRAM:  16 MB

Stack set to 00fa1f78
Start relocate of code from ffc00400 to 00ff2000
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 00ff2000

Vector Number: 31 Format: 04 Fault Status: 0

PC: ffffffff SR: 00002009 SP: 00fa1d9c
D0: 00000000 D1: 0000001d D2: 00000066 D3: 00fb1f90
D4: ffffbfff D5: dfffff7e D6: eff7ffef D7: 00fb1f90
A0: 00fb1f90 A1: 00ff24c0 A2: 00fa1e3e A3: 00ffd000
A4: 7ff5fbef A5: 00ffc000 A6: 00fa1de4

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The strange thing is that the PC that should be the address where to return (next instruction) is 0xffffffff, from this, probably, the exception is generated just after the "rte".

I don't really undertsand for what reason the PC is set badly from the micro, hope some 68k expert here can help me.

Many thanks in advance,
angelo

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Hello Angelo,

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U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

I suggest that you have two options:

1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was current.

2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot. :-)

Andy.

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Hello Angelo,

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U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

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I suggest that you have two options:

1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was current.

2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot. :-)

Andy.

Hi Andy,

thanks,
the "current" sourceforge link of u-boot offer this package, so i considered as almost stable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

If you think there could be some issue related to this, i certainly update to last source.
<http://www.sysam.it>
regards,
angelo

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Angelo wrote...

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U-Boot 1.1.6 (May 27 2011 - 00:09:24)

I suggest that you have two options:

1. Create a time machine and set it for November 2006 when 1.1.6 was current.

2. Try the latest code base for U-Boot. :-)

the "current" sourceforge link of u-boot offer this package, so i

considered as almost stable.

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

I think it is a long time since the sourceforge.net page was current. The home for the project is at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot.

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If you think there could be some issue related to this, i certainly update

to last source.

If nothing else, you might want the last four years worth of feature enhancements, bug fixes, etc.

Regards,

Andy.