Overview -------- The LS2080A Reference Design (RDB) is a high-performance computing, evaluation, and development platform that supports the QorIQ LS2080A Layerscape Architecture processor. LS2080A SoC Overview ------------------ The LS2080A integrated multicore processor combines eight ARM Cortex-A57 processor cores with high-performance data path acceleration logic and network and peripheral bus interfaces required for networking, telecom/datacom, wireless infrastructure, and mil/aerospace applications. The LS2080A SoC includes the following function and features: - Eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs - 1 MB platform cache with ECC - Two 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving support - One secondary 32-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controller, intended for use by the AIOP - Data path acceleration architecture (DPAA2) incorporating acceleration for the following functions: - Packet parsing, classification, and distribution (WRIOP) - Queue and Hardware buffer management for scheduling, packet sequencing, and congestion management, buffer allocation and de-allocation (QBMan) - Cryptography acceleration (SEC) at up to 10 Gbps - RegEx pattern matching acceleration (PME) at up to 10 Gbps - Decompression/compression acceleration (DCE) at up to 20 Gbps - Accelerated I/O processing (AIOP) at up to 20 Gbps - QDMA engine - 16 SerDes lanes at up to 10.3125 GHz - Ethernet interfaces - Up to eight 10 Gbps Ethernet MACs - Up to eight 1 / 2.5 Gbps Ethernet MACs - High-speed peripheral interfaces - Four PCIe 3.0 controllers, one supporting SR-IOV - Additional peripheral interfaces - Two serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers - Two high-speed USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY - Enhanced secure digital host controller (eSDXC/eMMC) - Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller - Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) Controller - Four I2C controllers - Two DUARTs - Integrated flash controller (IFC 2.0) supporting NAND and NOR flash - Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning enforcement - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 3.0 - Service processor (SP) provides pre-boot initialization and secure-boot capabilities LS2080ARDB board Overview ----------------------- - SERDES Connections, 16 lanes supporting: - PCI Express - 3.0 - SATA 3.0 - XFI - DDR Controller - Two ports of 72-bits (8-bits ECC) DDR4. Each port supports four chip-selects and two DIMM connectors. Support is up to 2133MT/s. - One port of 40-bits (8-bits ECC) DDR4 which supports four chip-selects and two DIMM connectors. Support is up to 1600MT/s. -IFC/Local Bus - IFC rev. 2.0 implementation supporting Little Endian connection scheme. - 128 MB NOR flash 16-bit data bus - One 2 GB NAND flash with ECC support - CPLD connection - USB 3.0 - Two high speed USB 3.0 ports - First USB 3.0 port configured as Host with Type-A connector - Second USB 3.0 port configured as OTG with micro-AB connector - SDHC adapter - SD Card Rev 2.0 and Rev 3.0 - DSPI - 128 MB high-speed flash Memory for boot code and storage (up to 108MHz) - 4 I2C controllers - Two SATA onboard connectors - UART - ARM JTAG support Memory map from core's view ---------------------------- 0x00_0000_0000 .. 0x00_000F_FFFF Boot Rom 0x00_0100_0000 .. 0x00_0FFF_FFFF CCSR 0x00_1800_0000 .. 0x00_181F_FFFF OCRAM 0x00_3000_0000 .. 0x00_3FFF_FFFF IFC region #1 0x00_8000_0000 .. 0x00_FFFF_FFFF DDR region #1 0x05_1000_0000 .. 0x05_FFFF_FFFF IFC region #2 0x80_8000_0000 .. 0xFF_FFFF_FFFF DDR region #2 Other addresses are either reserved, or not used directly by U-Boot. This list should be updated when more addresses are used. IFC region map from core's view ------------------------------- During boot i.e. IFC Region #1:- 0x30000000 - 0x37ffffff : 128MB : NOR flash 0x3C000000 - 0x40000000 : 64MB : CPLD After relocate to DDR i.e. IFC Region #2:- 0x5_1000_0000..0x5_1fff_ffff Memory Hole 0x5_2000_0000..0x5_3fff_ffff IFC CSx (CPLD, NAND and others 512MB) 0x5_4000_0000..0x5_7fff_ffff ASIC or others 1GB 0x5_8000_0000..0x5_bfff_ffff IFC CS0 1GB (NOR/Promjet) 0x5_C000_0000..0x5_ffff_ffff IFC CS1 1GB (NOR/Promjet) Booting Options --------------- a) NOR boot b) NAND boot Booting Linux flavors which do not support 48-bit VA (< Linux 3.18) ------------------------------------------------------------------- One needs to use appropriate bootargs to boot Linux flavors which do not support 48-bit VA (for e.g. < Linux 3.18) by appending mem=2048M, as shown below: => setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS1,115200 root=/dev/ram earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x21c0600,115200 default_hugepagesz=2m hugepagesz=2m hugepages=16 mem=2048M'