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u-boot hangs immediately on new 04/2014 Rev D boards

vadimv
vadimv over 11 years ago

Hello,

I have a Zynq PS/PL design that happily runs on my two Rev D Zedboards, boots using tftpboot, runs great. I'm a longtime Zedboard/Xilinx user, never had serious problems before.

I recently bought 8 new Rev D boards to share with the rest of my development team. I have tried all 8 - every single one fails to boot in the exact same setup as my original 2 that work. I power off working board, unplug, plug in new board exactly the same way, and fail. Booting from JTAG, u-boot gets to approx this step and hangs:

I2C:   ready
Memory: ECC disabled
DRAM: 

Sometimes it hangs when printing out the Memory: line, sometimes in the following line. I can turn off and unplug new Rev D, plug in old Red D, power on, and boot like a champ, so nothing is really changing... The truly bizzare thing is that this behavior only happens on JTAG/TFTP boot. SD card boot works fine. There's nothing in my network for controlling MAC addresses, all the boards look the same to the network. Nonetheless, u-boot fails to load way before  the TFTP step.

New boards have an 0814 datecode and S/N of D57XXXX. Additionally, the new boards have different markings on the DDR3 chips - 4CK77 D9PTK. Old Rev Ds that work were 1334 datecode and had DDR3 of 2WD22 D9LGQ, with an S/N of D53XXXX. That's the only difference, these boards are the same rev after all...

Anyone know what could be happening?  

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    We have not encountered this problem ourselves or had any other reports but we are not discounting your issue. You mention that SD Card boot works fine but it fails to boot via JTAG. Are you booting the same system with both SD Card and JTAG or could differences in the booting system account for the problem? If they are not the same could you try and see if that might be an issue.

     

    -Gary

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    We have not encountered this problem ourselves or had any other reports but we are not discounting your issue. You mention that SD Card boot works fine but it fails to boot via JTAG. Are you booting the same system with both SD Card and JTAG or could differences in the booting system account for the problem? If they are not the same could you try and see if that might be an issue.

     

    -Gary

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    0 vadimv over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Identical boot system, identical u-boot... It's configured for SD operation with "run sdboot" entered in the appropriate place in the .h configuration file. When booting JTAG, on rare occasions I get to the point where I can get to a u-boot prompt to call tftpboot at the console, but most of the time it gets stuck earlier...


    That's really the bizzare aspect of this - sometimes, on rare occasions, it almost works. This tends to happen when the board is cool, which again pointed me to some sort of board issue. Doesn't happen at all with our working Rev D pair of boards, those things are rock solid.

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