vexpress_ca9x4 is seemingly the only board except for qemu_arm which
is able to run U-Boot correctly, using the `-M vexpress-a9` option to
QEMU. Building for qemu_arm and running qemu-system-arm with the `-M
virt` argument has a number of downsides, most importantly that it
only supports virtio storage drivers. This significantly reduces its
usefulness in testing memory card and Flash solutions, especially when
the tested images are from a third party source.
So therefore we reintroduce the vexpress_ca9x4 board in this commit,
with the explicit goal of using it with QEMU.
A number of differences to note from the original:
* Since the board was apparently unmaintained, I have now set myself
as the maintainer.
* The board has been converted to use the driver model, which was the
reason it was removed in the first place.
* The vexpress_ca15_tc2 and vexpress_ca5x2 boards, which were removed
in the same commit, are not necessary for the QEMU use case, and
have been omitted.
* An `mmc0` alias was introduced in the dts file. The mmc is not
detected correctly without this, now that it's based on the device
tree instead of the board's init function.
* A couple of other nodes were removed because they were problematic
when trying to run the UEFI bootmgr. Once again, the primary use
case here is QEMU, and these nodes are not needed for that to work.
* Unnecessary board init code has been removed, thanks to driver model
and device tree.
* `CONFIG_OF_EMBED` has been enabled. I know this goes against
recommended practice, but there doesn't seem to be any other way to
pass the dtb to U-Boot in the QEMU scenario. Using the -dtb argument
does not work, I suppose because U-Boot doesn't use the same
mechanics as the kernel when it's booting.
* Load addresses have been changed to fit QEMU use case.
People wanting to get a more detailed, yet somewhat isolated, diff
between this and the original, can run this command:
git diff c6c26a05b89f25a06e7562f8c2071b60fd0c9eac~1 -- \
$( git diff-tree --diff-filter=A -r --name-only HEAD~1 HEAD)
(Make sure to either check out this commit first, or replace HEAD with
the commit ID of this commit)
Signed-off-by: Kristian Amlie <kristian.amlie@northern.tech>
This board has not been converted to CONFIG_DM_MMC by the deadline.
Remove it.
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and
there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from. So we picked the
area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it
with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry. Since then, the
Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first
line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line)
and with slightly different comment styles than us.
In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility
and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style.
This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared
license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag
contents. There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag
and have introduced one.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
The firmware on TC2 needs to be configured appropriately before booting
in nonsec mode will work as expected, so test for this and fall back to
sec mode if required.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
The current ca9x4_ct_vxp platform contains support for a Versatile
Express motherboard with a quad core A9 core tile.
This patch separates the Versatile Express motherboard code and the
A9 specific code, to ease supporting more core tiles in the next
patches.
Andre: merged the first two of Ryan's original patches and did some
checkpatch fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
The top level Makefile does not do any recursion into subdirs when
cleaning, so these clean/distclean targets in random arch/board dirs
never get used. Punt them all.
MAKEALL didn't report any errors related to this that I could see.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils. As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".
This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.
The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o". This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.
This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols. Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>
Adds support for the ARM quad-core Cortex-A9 processor
This system includes a motherboard(Versatile Express), daughterboard
(Coretile), and SOC(Cortex-A9 quad core). The serial port, ethernet,
and flash systems work with these additions. The naming convention
is:
SOC -> CortexA9 quad core = ca9x4
daughterboard -> Coretile = ct
motherboard -> Versatile Express = vxp
This gives ca9x4_ct_vxp.c as the board support file.
Signed-off-by: Matt Waddel <matt.waddel@linaro.org>
