* Adding memory to TQM8xx
@ 2002-09-24 11:46 Gerard Flynn
2002-09-24 12:42 ` Wolfgang Denk
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From: Gerard Flynn @ 2002-09-24 11:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-embedded
Hello,
I'm afraid this question is a bit off-topic because it has perhaps more to
do with hardware than software but I don't know of a better place to ask this
sort of question.
Has anyone had experience adding memory (specifically SDRAM) to a carrier
board for TQM855 or other TQM mini-modules ? It seems like this should work
except for :
1) The 50 pF capacitance limit on the MPC8xx bus lines (ie. how much is
already used on the module ?)
2) As far as I can tell it should be possible to use UPMB to control the new
memory bank without interfering in any way with the UPMA configuration. It
appears that UPMB is only used by ppcboot for the CAN driver (which I'm not
using). Is this correct ?
3) Should it be possible to configure the extra memory bank after ppcboot
has started, say with an independant program which runs before the kernel ?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Gerard Flynn
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* Re: Adding memory to TQM8xx
2002-09-24 11:46 Adding memory to TQM8xx Gerard Flynn
@ 2002-09-24 12:42 ` Wolfgang Denk
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From: Wolfgang Denk @ 2002-09-24 12:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gerard Flynn; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded, Andreas Widder
Dear Gerard,
in message <E17to9K-0003eZ-00@stdev1•machine.clio> you wrote:
>
> I'm afraid this question is a bit off-topic because it has perhaps more to
Actually, it is OT here.
> do with hardware than software but I don't know of a better place to ask this
> sort of question.
Well, why don;t you ask TQ directly? They are in the best position to
answer such questions. I've put Mr. Andreas Widder on Cc: - I'm sure
he can help you.
> Has anyone had experience adding memory (specifically SDRAM) to a carrier
> board for TQM855 or other TQM mini-modules ? It seems like this should work
> except for :
>
> 1) The 50 pF capacitance limit on the MPC8xx bus lines (ie. how much is
> already used on the module ?)
Sorry, I'm not a hardware guy.
> 2) As far as I can tell it should be possible to use UPMB to control the new
> memory bank without interfering in any way with the UPMA configuration. It
> appears that UPMB is only used by ppcboot for the CAN driver (which I'm not
> using). Is this correct ?
Yes, this is correct.
> 3) Should it be possible to configure the extra memory bank after ppcboot
> has started, say with an independant program which runs before the kernel ?
While technically possible, this makes little sense to me. I think
you should perform this initialization as part of the normal memory
initialization sequence within PPCBoot, so you can present one big
contiguous piece of system RAM to the Linux kernel.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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