Regression - BlackParrot+Arty demo.bin stuck on lift-off

[troibe]

I just tried if I can reproduce https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/pull/1259 on BlackParrot. Unfortunately using BlackParrot and the Arty board the demo.bin gets stuck on lift-off even if -flto is removed. Here are the commands that I used:

digilent_arty.py --build --load --sys-clk-freq 20e6 --cpu-type blackparrot --cpu-variant standard --variant=a7-100
litex_bare_metal_demo --build-path=build/digilent_arty
lxterm /dev/ttyUSB1 --kernel demo.bin --kernel-adr 0x80000000
sdram_mr_write 0 2624
sdram_mr_write 1 2054
sdram_mr_write 2 512
sdram_cal
serialboot

Interestingly in simulation the demo application works as expected (at least without -flto):

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 BIOS built on Apr  2 2022 00:09:09
 BIOS CRC passed (3ca1a04e)

 Migen git sha1: ac70301
 LiteX git sha1: ab9ddc99

--=============== SoC ==================--
CPU:        BlackParrotRV64[imafd] @ 1MHz
BUS:        WISHBONE 32-bit @ 4GiB
CSR:        32-bit data
ROM:        128KiB
SRAM:       8KiB
L2:     8KiB
SDRAM:      65536KiB 32-bit @ 1MT/s (CL-2 CWL-2)

--========== Initialization ============--
Initializing SDRAM @0x80000000...
Switching SDRAM to software control.
Switching SDRAM to hardware control.

--============== Boot ==================--
Booting from serial...
Press Q or ESC to abort boot completely.
sL5DdSMmkekro
Timeout
Executing booted program at 0x80000000

--============= Liftoff! ===============--

LiteX minimal demo app built Apr  2 2022 00:09:05

Available commands:
help               - Show this command
reboot             - Reboot CPU
donut              - Spinning Donut demo
helloc             - Hello C
litex-demo-app> 

[enjoy-digital]

Hi @developandplay,

20MHz is quite low, is the DDR3 calibrating correctly at this freq and memtest passing? If so, have you tested the same design also at 20MHz with Rocket?

I would recommend first trying to execute the demo.bin from an integrated RAM by adding--integrated-main-ram-size=0x10000 (Adjust size to your needs). This will remove the DDR3 from the equation. If working like this, the issue is thesys_clk_freq that is too low, are you able to increase it of is 20MHz the maximum frequency for BlackParrot on Arty?

[troibe]

So the memory is calibrated and the test is passing at 20Mhz. I have been using this setup previously that is why I marked it as a regression. I'll try rocket at 20Mhz and the integrated ram as well. Besides dram are there frequency dependent components that might cause this?

enjoy-digital @.***> schrieb am Di., 5. Apr. 2022, 09:10:

Hi @developandplay https://github.com/developandplay,

20MHz is quite low, is the DDR3 calibrating correctly at this freq and memtest passing? If so, have you tested the same design also at 20MHz with Rocket?

I would recommend first trying to execute the demo.bin from an integrated RAM by adding --integrated-main-ram-size=0x10000 (Adjust size to your needs). This will remove the DDR3 from the equation. If working like this, the issue is the sys_clk_freq that is too low, are you able to increase it of is 20MHz the maximum frequency for BlackParrot on Arty?

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