Hi,

On 03/20/2014 11:50 PM, Ratin wrote:
> On Friday, October 18, 2013 10:25:27 AM UTC-7, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>> http://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2013-07-29#4520613;
>>
>>
>>
>> 10:10 <Tsvetan> the reason we made 384Mhz image is, because when we had 
>> enough
>>
>>                 boards produced
>>
>> 10:10 <Tsvetan> we noticed that 20% of A20 boards fail on clock more than 
>> 400Mhz
>>
>> 10:11 <Tsvetan> replacing the A20 chips on them make them alive
>>
>> 10:11 <Tsvetan> which made us think that A20 chips have some tolerances and
>>
>>                 not all can run above 400Mhz
>>
>> 10:11 <wingrime> Tsvetan: хи
>>
>> 10:11 <Tsvetan> I ask Tom and he observed the same
>>
>> 10:11 <Tsvetan> so we decided to generate images with 384 to be on the
>>
>>                 safe side to all boards
>>
>> 10:12 <Tsvetan> 80% of the boards still can run up to 480Mhz
>>
>> 10:12 <Tsvetan> btw datasheet say nothing for max safe frequency
>>
>> 10:12 <Tsvetan> we found this in fiel
>>
>> 10:12 <wingrime> Tsvetan: we still not have any auto testing framework
>>
>> 10:12 <Tsvetan> field
>>
>> 10:12 <oliv3r> wingrime: you mean for dram timings?
>>
>> 10:13 <wingrime> oliv3r: yex, some mistery
>>
>> 10:13 <Tsvetan> so running at 400-432-480 may work
>>
>> 10:13 <oliv3r> i guess it's with overlcocking a PC, you get it with a safe
>>
>>                setting, and then overclock it to whatever works for you
>>
>> 10:13 <Tsvetan> but you do not know what tolerances your chips have
>>
>> 10:13 <Tsvetan> and when it will fail infield
>>
>> 10:13 <wingrime> Tsvetan: are you using same dram ic ?
>>
>> 10:13 <oliv3r> Tsvetan: so cubieboard2 also runs at 384 MHz by default now?
>>
>> 10:13 <Tsvetan> same memory chips
>>
>> 10:13 <Tsvetan> BTW A10 chips do not suffer this problem
>>
>> 10:14 <Tsvetan> and work fine on same layout up to 480Mhz
>>
>> 10:14 <Tsvetan> so its up to you at what memory clock you want to run your 
>> board
>>
>> 10:14 <Tsvetan> our statistic though says to stay at 384 to be on the safe 
>> side
>>
>> 10:15 <oliv3r> better safe then sorry ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> The 480MHz dram clock frequency has been also confirmed to cause problems
>>
>> for at least one user at www.cubieforums.com when running Qt5.
>>
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <[email protected]>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c | 2 +-
>>
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c b/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
>>
>> index 370a3d9..287673c 100644
>>
>> --- a/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
>>
>> +++ b/board/sunxi/dram_cubieboard2.c
>>
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>>
>>  #include <asm/arch/dram.h>
>>
>>  
>>
>>  static struct dram_para dram_para = {
>>
>> -    .clock = 480,
>>
>> +    .clock = 384,
>>
>>      .type = 3,
>>
>>      .rank_num = 1,
>>
>>      .density = 4096,
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> 1.8.1.5

Hmm, it seems this patch never got merged into the u-boot-sunxi git repo, are 
there
any objections to me merging this during one of the coming days ?

Regards,

Hans

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