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Fabio Estevam
0c5e26678b udoo: Add initial support for mx6q udoo board
Add basic support for mx6q udoo board.

For further information about Udoo board:
http://www.udoo.org/

Tested booting a mainline device tree kernel and a Yocto rootfs from mmc.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
2013-10-17 09:44:20 +02:00
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
469146c097 sf: Minor cleanups.
- Add comments.
- Renamed few macros.
- Add tabs.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Bo Shen <voice.shen@atmel.com>
2013-10-16 00:14:00 +05:30
Wolfgang Denk
16641d52fc Coding Style cleanup: drop some excessive empty lines
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2013-10-14 16:06:54 -04:00
Wolfgang Denk
93e1459641 Coding Style cleanup: replace leading SPACEs by TABs
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
[trini: Drop changes for PEP 4 following python tools]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-14 16:06:54 -04:00
Wolfgang Denk
3765b3e7bd Coding Style cleanup: remove trailing white space
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2013-10-14 16:06:53 -04:00
Jaehoon Chung
b0c3b1195a pmic: max77686: fix the wrong offset
0x1D is reserved. So BUCK3DVS1 is started from 0x1e.

Signed-off-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>
2013-10-14 16:06:53 -04:00
Tom Rini
40ace028f1 am335x_evm.h: Make 'am335x_boneblack' use redundant environment
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-14 16:06:52 -04:00
Tom Rini
4fa7613c50 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm 2013-10-14 11:20:32 -04:00
Tom Rini
bff4fae4fc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-nand-flash 2013-10-14 09:37:51 -04:00
Albert ARIBAUD
5a91204394 Merge branch 'u-boot-samsung/master' into 'u-boot-arm/master' 2013-10-11 14:47:25 +02:00
Tom Rini
7406d321cc omap5_common: Re-work mmc boot to try SD and eMMC, correct root device
OMAP5 boards may have both eMMC (on MMC2) and an SD slot (on MMC1).  We
Update the default bootcmd to match what happens on AM335x where we try
SD first, and then eMMC.  In this case however, the hardware layout used
for powering both of these means that in the kernel eMMC shall be found
first as it is powered by a fixed regulator and SD found second as SD is
powered via the palmas which will result in deferred probing.

Tested-by: Aparna Balasubramanian <aparnab@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-09 14:13:43 -04:00
Paul Burton
39ac34473f cmd_mtdparts: use 64 bits for flash size, partition size & offset
This matches the 64 bit size in struct mtd_info and allows the mtdparts
command to function correctly with a flash >= 4GiB. Format specifiers
for size & offset are given the ll length, matching its use in
drivers/mtd in absence of something like inttypes.h/PRIx64.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2013-10-09 12:52:16 -05:00
Paul Burton
40462e541d mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN
Linux modified the MTD driver interface in commit edbc4540 (with the
same name as this commit). The effect is that calls to mtd_read will
not return -EUCLEAN if the number of ECC-corrected bit errors is below
a certain threshold, which defaults to the strength of the ECC. This
allows -EUCLEAN to stop indicating "some bits were corrected" and begin
indicating "a large number of bits were corrected, the data held in
this region of flash may be lost soon". UBI makes use of this and when
-EUCLEAN is returned from mtd_read it will move data to another block
of flash. Without adopting this interface change UBI on U-boot attempts
to move data between blocks every time a single bit is corrected using
the ECC, which is a very common occurance on some devices.

For some devices where bit errors are common enough, UBI can get stuck
constantly moving data around because each block it attempts to use has
a single bit error. This condition is hit when wear_leveling_worker
attempts to move data from one PEB to another in response to an
-EUCLEAN/UBI_IO_BITFLIPS error. When this happens ubi_eba_copy_leb is
called to perform the data copy, and after the data is written it is
read back to check its validity. If that read returns UBI_IO_BITFLIPS
(in response to an MTD -EUCLEAN) then ubi_eba_copy_leb returns 1 to
wear_leveling worker, which then proceeds to schedule the destination
PEB for erasure. This leads to erase_worker running on the PEB, and
following a successful erase wear_leveling_worker is called which
begins this whole cycle all over again. The end result is that (without
UBI debug output enabled) the boot appears to simply hang whilst in
reality U-boot busily works away at destroying a block of the NAND
flash. Debug output from this situation:

  UBI DBG: ensure_wear_leveling: schedule scrubbing
  UBI DBG: wear_leveling_worker: scrub PEB 1027 to PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read_vid_hdr: read VID header from PEB 1027
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read: read 4096 bytes from PEB 1027:4096
  UBI DBG: ubi_eba_copy_leb: copy LEB 0:0, PEB 1027 to PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: ubi_eba_copy_leb: read 1040384 bytes of data
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read: read 1040384 bytes from PEB 1027:8192
  UBI: fixable bit-flip detected at PEB 1027
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_write_vid_hdr: write VID header to PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_write: write 4096 bytes to PEB 4083:4096
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read_vid_hdr: read VID header from PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read: read 4096 bytes from PEB 4083:4096
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_write: write 4096 bytes to PEB 4083:8192
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_read: read 4096 bytes from PEB 4083:8192
  UBI: fixable bit-flip detected at PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: schedule_erase: schedule erasure of PEB 4083, EC 55, torture 0
  UBI DBG: erase_worker: erase PEB 4083 EC 55
  UBI DBG: sync_erase: erase PEB 4083, old EC 55
  UBI DBG: do_sync_erase: erase PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: sync_erase: erased PEB 4083, new EC 56
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_write_ec_hdr: write EC header to PEB 4083
  UBI DBG: ubi_io_write: write 4096 bytes to PEB 4083:0
  UBI DBG: ensure_wear_leveling: schedule scrubbing
  UBI DBG: wear_leveling_worker: scrub PEB 1027 to PEB 4083
  ...

This patch adopts the interface change as in Linux commit edbc4540 in
order to avoid such situations. Given that none of the drivers under
drivers/mtd return -EUCLEAN, this should only affect those using
software ECC. I have tested that it works on a board which is
currently out of tree, but which I hope to be able to begin
upstreaming soon.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
2013-10-09 12:52:04 -05:00
Holger Brunck
13303e43b4 powerpc/km: drop unused CONFIG_SYS_DTT_LOW_TEMP
This define is not used in u-boot code, we can drop this define safely.

Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com>
2013-10-09 10:07:56 -04:00
Holger Brunck
7d77203cd7 km/common: switch on CMD_GREPENV
Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com>
2013-10-09 10:07:56 -04:00
Tom Rini
df166cc9f4 da850evm.h: Always set CONFIG_CMD_SF, move to by CONFIG_SPI_FLASH
When we have CONFIG_SPI_FLASH set we now require CONFIG_CMD_SF.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-08 15:08:38 -04:00
Tom Rini
31cd065df0 Revert "am335x_evm.h: If mmcdev and bootpart switch to mmcdev 1, so should mmcroot."
Upon further inspection and review and chatting with kernel folks, what
happens here is that what mmcblk# a device gets is based on probe order.
So a system with an SD card inserted with place eMMC on mmcblk1, but
without an SD card, it will be on mmcblk0.  So U-boot can only provide a
best guess.  In this case, if no SD card is present, we would want to
pass mmcblk0p2 still.  If an SD card is present, it woudl be able to
provide a uEnv.txt that would be loaded (even if the kernel is NOT
there) which can still update mmcroot variable.

This reverts commit 827512fb11.

Cc: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-08 11:09:17 -04:00
Tom Rini
9f3fe6da27 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm 2013-10-08 09:51:48 -04:00
Tom Rini
968294bd7b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-spi 2013-10-08 09:03:15 -04:00
Rajeshwari Shinde
fc9ae1bac4 exynos: Export timer_get_us() to get microsecond timer
This function, if implemented by the board, provides a microsecond
timer. The granularity may be larger than 1us if hardware does not
support this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajeshwari S Shinde <rajeshwari.s@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki@gmail.com>
2013-10-08 18:18:10 +05:30
Wolfgang Denk
b770e88a6c Fix number base handling of "load" command
As documented, almost all U-Boot commands expect numbers to be entered
in hexadecimal input format. (Exception: for historical reasons, the
"sleep" command takes its argument in decimal input format.)

This rule was broken for the "load" command; for details please see
especially commits 045fa1e "fs: add filesystem switch libary,
implement ls and fsload commands" and 3f83c87 "fs: fix number base
behaviour change in fatload/ext*load".  In the result, the load
command would always require an explicit "0x" prefix for regular
(i. e. base 16 formatted) input.

Change this to use the standard notation of base 16 input format.
While strictly speaking this is a change of the user interface, we
hope that it will not cause trouble.  Stephen Warren comments (see
[1]):

        I suppose you can change the behaviour if you want; anyone
        writing "0x..." for their values presumably won't be
        affected, and if people really do assume all values in U-Boot
        are in hex, presumably nobody currently relies upon using
        non-prefixed values with the generic load command, since it
        doesn't work like that right now.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/171172

Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2013-10-07 15:54:18 -04:00
Chin Liang See
5d649d2b08 socfpga: Adding System Manager driver
Adding System Manager driver which will configure the
pin mux for real hardware Cyclone V development kit
(not Virtual Platform)

Signed-off-by: Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@altera.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
CC: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@altera.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
2013-10-07 19:32:21 +02:00
Albert ARIBAUD
0610a16cf2 omap1510inn: arm925t: remove support
omap1510inn is orphan and has been for years now.
Reove it and, as it was the only arm925t target,
also remove arm925t support.
Update doc/README.scrapyard accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
2013-10-07 19:25:19 +02:00
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
ce22b922dd sf: Minor cleanups
- Add spaces, tabs
- Commenting.
- Rearrange code.
- Add static qualifier for missing func.
- Remove memory_map from ramtron.c
- Ramtron: spi_flash_internal.h -> sf_internal.h

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 19:34:56 +05:30
Matt Porter
247cdf0413 dra7xx_evm: add SPL API, QSPI, and serial flash support
Enables support for SPI SPL, QSPI and Spansion serial flash device
on the EVM. Configures pin muxes for QSPI mode.

Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki@gmail.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:52 +05:30
Poddar, Sourav
004f15b600 sf: Add memory mapped read support
Qspi controller can have a memory mapped port which can be used for
data read. Added support to enable memory mapped port read.

This patch enables the following:
- It enables exchange of memory map address between mtd and qspi
through the introduction of "memory_map" flag.
- Add support to communicate to the driver that memory mapped
 transfer is to be started through introduction of new flags like
"SPI_XFER_MEM_MAP" and "SPI_XFER_MEM_MAP_END".

This will enable the spi controller to do memory mapped configurations
if required.

Signed-off-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki@gmail.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:51 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
1b1bd9a7b3 spi: spi cleanups
- Rearranged multi-line comment style.
- Add tabs.
- Add spaces.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:49 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
a5e8199a13 sf: spi_flash cleanups
More cleanups on spi_flash side:
- Removed unneeded comments.
- Rearranged macros in proper location.
- Rearranged func declerations
- Renamed few function names.
- Added License headers.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:49 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
30b0ca6318 sf: Remove spi_flash_do_alloc references
Added a support for common probe, hence removed removed
spi_flash_do_alloc reference.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:49 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
af1679bc30 sf: ramtron: Add support for separate flash driver
Compared to other spi flashes, ramtron has a different
probing and implementation on flash ops, hence moved
ramtron probe code into ramtron driver.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:46 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
7ab35d922d sf: Add proper comment style on spi_flash structure
Added proper comment style on spi_flash structure to make
more readable.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:46 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
0f6232801c sf: probe: Add support for flag status polling
From Micron, 512MB onwards, flash requires to poll flag status
instead of read status- hence added E_FSR flag on spectific
flash parts.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:45 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
f4f51a8ff8 sf: probe: Add support for erase sector selection flag
SECT_4K, SECT_32K and SECT_64K opeartions are performed to
to specific flash by adding a SECT* flag on respective
spi_flash_params.flag param.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:45 +05:30
Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki
10ca45d005 sf: probe: Add support for SST_WP
Most of the SST flashes needs to write up using SST_WP, AAI
Word Program, so added a flag param on spi_flash_params table.

SST flashes, which supports SST_WP need to use a WP write
sst_write_wp instead of common flash write.

Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jaganna@xilinx.com>
2013-10-07 17:55:44 +05:30
Otavio Salvador
ce0f28fa82 include/linux/fb.h: Add a missing include for 'list.h'
The modelist data uses the list definition but the 'list.h' header
were not being included. The build failure is bellow:

,----
| In file included from yyyy.c:16:0:
| .../u-boot/include/linux/fb.h:503:19: error: field 'modelist' has incomplete type
|   struct list_head modelist; /* mode list */
|                    ^
| make[1]: *** [yyyy.o] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory `.../u-boot/board/xxx/yyyy'
| make: *** [board/xxx/yyyy/libyyyy.o] Error 2
`----

Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
2013-10-07 08:21:13 -04:00
Tom Rini
e3cf969205 am335x_evm: Switch to zImage as default rather than uImage
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-10-07 07:43:46 -04:00
Tom Rini
f835c77fb7 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm 2013-10-04 13:17:48 -04:00
Andre Przywara
e261c83aa0 ARM: VExpress: enable ARMv7 virt support for VExpress A15
To enable hypervisors utilizing the ARMv7 virtualization extension
on the Versatile Express board with the A15 core tile, we add the
required configuration variable.
Also we define the board specific smp_set_cpu_boot_addr() function to
set the start address for secondary cores in the VExpress specific
manner.
There is no need to provide a custom smp_waitloop() function here.

This also serves as an example for what to do when adding support for
new boards.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
2013-10-03 21:28:57 +02:00
Andre Przywara
ba6a169811 ARM: add SMP support for non-secure switch
Currently the non-secure switch is only done for the boot processor.
To enable full SMP support, we have to switch all secondary cores
into non-secure state also.

So we add an entry point for secondary CPUs coming out of low-power
state and make sure we put them into WFI again after having switched
to non-secure state.
For this we acknowledge and EOI the wake-up IPI, then go into WFI.
Once being kicked out of it later, we sanity check that the start
address has actually been changed (since another attempt to switch
to non-secure would block the core) and jump to the new address.

The actual CPU kick is done by sending an inter-processor interrupt
via the GIC to all CPU interfaces except the requesting processor.
The secondary cores will then setup their respective GIC CPU
interface.
While this approach is pretty universal across several ARMv7 boards,
we make this function weak in case someone needs to tweak this for
a specific board.

The way of setting the secondary's start address is board specific,
but mostly different only in the actual SMP pen address, so we also
provide a weak default implementation and just depend on the proper
address to be set in the config file.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
2013-10-03 21:28:51 +02:00
Andre Przywara
16212b594f ARM: add assembly routine to switch to non-secure state
While actually switching to non-secure state is one thing, another
part of this process is to make sure that we still have full access
to the interrupt controller (GIC).
The GIC is fully aware of secure vs. non-secure state, some
registers are banked, others may be configured to be accessible from
secure state only.
To be as generic as possible, we get the GIC memory mapped address
based on the PERIPHBASE value in the CBAR register. Since this
register is not architecturally defined, we check the MIDR before to
be from an A15 or A7.
For CPUs not having the CBAR or boards with wrong information herein
we allow providing the base address as a configuration variable.

Now that we know the GIC address, we:
a) allow private interrupts to be delivered to the core
   (GICD_IGROUPR0 = 0xFFFFFFFF)
b) enable the CPU interface (GICC_CTLR[0] = 1)
c) set the priority filter to allow non-secure interrupts
   (GICC_PMR = 0xFF)

Also we allow access to all coprocessor interfaces from non-secure
state by writing the appropriate bits in the NSACR register.

The generic timer base frequency register is only accessible from
secure state, so we have to program it now. Actually this should be
done from primary firmware before, but some boards seems to omit
this, so if needed we do this here with a board specific value.
The Versatile Express board does not need this, so we remove the
frequency from the configuration file here.

After having switched to non-secure state, we also enable the
non-secure GIC CPU interface, since this register is banked.

Since we need to call this routine also directly from the smp_pen
later (where we don't have any stack), we can only use caller saved
registers r0-r3 and r12 to not mess with the compiler.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@linaro.org>
2013-10-03 21:28:25 +02:00
Tom Rini
6297872cd5 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm 2013-10-02 11:45:22 -04:00
Albert ARIBAUD
f04c537629 Merge branch 'u-boot-imx/master' into 'u-boot-arm/master' 2013-10-02 14:53:27 +02:00
Albert ARIBAUD
5c8d5b6fc1 Merge branch 'u-boot-ti/master' into 'u-boot-arm/master' 2013-10-02 08:10:36 +02:00
Piotr Wilczek
4d6c96711b samsung: trats2: add support for new board Trats2
This patch add support for a new Samsung board Trats2.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Wilczek <p.wilczek@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
2013-09-25 10:52:33 +09:00
Piotr Wilczek
0475044712 drivers:power:max77693: add support for new multi function pmic max77693
This patch add support for new multi function pmic max77693.
The driver is split into three modules: pmic, muic and fuelgage.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Wilczek <p.wilczek@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
2013-09-25 10:52:27 +09:00
Lukasz Majewski
a6921adcf2 usb:g_dnl:dfu: Download gadget and DFU function code clean up
The download gadget code and DFU function lacks of proper declarations
for the case when a target board wants to use only one of available usb
functions.

Moreover the relevant declarations have been moved to consistent
localization (like <dfu.h>).

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
2013-09-24 17:51:36 +02:00
Lukasz Majewski
69d6cbe748 usb:gadget:Remove redundant #includes for USB composite gadget and its functions
Only the <linux/usb/gadget.h> requires error.h include. Hence, several
includes of error.h at USB gadget functions are not needed.

Moreover unnecessary malloc.h includes were also removed.

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
2013-09-24 17:51:36 +02:00
Lukasz Majewski
ba4e95c9f0 usb:g_dnl:ums: Conditional compilation for mass storage function (f_mass_storage)
The mass storage composite function is now compiled in only when
CONFIG_USB_GADGET_MASS_STORAGE is defined.
Such change provides binary size reduction for boards which use USB
download gadget (like am335x_evm) with DFU, but don't use UMS.

For example at am335x_evm board reduction is more than 2KiB for
text and around 120B for data.

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
2013-09-24 17:51:35 +02:00
Afzal Mohammed
e473b8b65b am335x_evm: enable DFU RAM
Enable DFU for RAM, provide example dfu_alt_info

Signed-off-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
2013-09-24 17:51:35 +02:00
Afzal Mohammed
a9479f0431 dfu: ram support
DFU spec mentions it as a method to upgrade firmware (software stored
in writable non-volatile memory). It also says other potential uses of
DFU is beyond scope of the spec.

Here such a beyond the scope use is being attempted - directly pumping
binary images from host via USB to RAM. This facility is a developer
centric one in that it gives advantage over upgrading non-volatile
memory for testing new images every time during development and/or
testing.

Directly putting image onto RAM would speed up upgrade process. This and
convenience was the initial thoughts that led to doing this, speed
improvement over MMC was only 1 second though - 6 sec on RAM as opposed
to 7 sec on MMC in beagle bone, perhaps enabling cache and/or optimizing
DFU framework to avoid multiple copy for ram (if worth) may help, and
on other platforms and other boot media like NAND maybe improvement
would be higher.

And for a platform that doesn't yet have proper DFU suppport for
non-volatile media's, DFU to RAM can be used.

Another minor advantage would be to increase life of mmc/nand as it
would be less used during development/testing.

usage: <image name> ram <start address> <size>
eg. kernel ram 0x81000000 0x1000000

Downloading images to RAM using DFU is not something new, this is
acheived in openmoko also.

DFU on RAM can be used for extracting RAM contents to host using dfu
upload. Perhaps this can be extended to io for squeezing out register
dump through usb, if it is worth.

Signed-off-by: Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Cc: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
2013-09-24 17:51:35 +02:00