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-rw-r--r--cpu/mpc824x/cpu_init.c21
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/cpu/mpc824x/cpu_init.c b/cpu/mpc824x/cpu_init.c
index 965f4fd5ed..7871031b97 100644
--- a/cpu/mpc824x/cpu_init.c
+++ b/cpu/mpc824x/cpu_init.c
@@ -106,6 +106,21 @@ cpu_init_f (void)
CONFIG_READ_BYTE(AMBOR,val);
CONFIG_WRITE_BYTE(AMBOR,val|0x1);
+#if 0
+ /*
+ * The following bug only affects older (XPC8245) processors.
+ * DMA transfers initiated by external devices get corrupted due
+ * to a hardware scheduling problem.
+ *
+ * The effect is:
+ * when transferring X words, the first 32 words are transferred
+ * OK, the next 3 x 32 words are 'old' data (from previous DMA)
+ * while the rest of the X words is xferred fine.
+ *
+ * Disabling 3 of the 4 32 word hardware buffers solves the problem
+ * with no significant performance loss.
+ */
+
CONFIG_READ_BYTE(PCMBCR,val);
/* in order not to corrupt data which is being read over the PCI bus
* with the PPC as slave, we need to reduce the number of PCMRBs to 1,
@@ -117,10 +132,8 @@ cpu_init_f (void)
#else
CONFIG_WRITE_BYTE(PCMBCR,(val|0x80)); /* 2 PCMRBs */
CONFIG_WRITE_BYTE(PCMBCR,(val|0x40)); /* 3 PCMRBs */
- /* default, 4 PCMRBs are used, so don't change the
- * register is this is _really_ what you want: data
- * corruption with no performance gain
- */
+ /* default, 4 PCMRBs are used */
+#endif
#endif
#endif