Right now U-Boot supports the CONFIG_OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT option,
which makes it go out of its way in limiting the selection of PLL clock
frequencies and PMIC voltages in order not to upset outdated buggy
sunxi-3.4 kernel releases. And if the CONFIG_OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT
option is not set, then booting such old kernels exhibits various
failures at runtime. This is very user unfriendly, and there were
already several incidents when people wasted their time being hit
by these runtime failures and trying to debug them.
The right solution is not to add hacks and workarounds to the mainline
U-Boot, but to fix these bugs in the sunxi-3.4 kernel. And in fact,
the updated sunxi-3.4 kernels already exist. Still we need to follow
the 'Principle of Least Surprise' and U-Boot needs to ensure that
the old buggy kernels are not getting happily booted when the
CONFIG_OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT option is not set. And this patch
addresses this particular issue.
This patch makes U-Boot store the 'compatibility revision' number in
the top 4 bits of the machine id and pass it to the kernel. The old
buggy kernels will fail to load with a very much googlable error
message on the serial console (the "r1 = 0x100010bb" part of it):
"Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x100010bb)"
This error message can be documented in the linux-sunxi wiki with
proper explanations about how to resolve this situation and where
to get the necessary bugfixes for the sunxi-3.4 kernel.
The fixed sunxi-3.4 kernels implement a revision compatibility check
and clear the top 4 bits of the machine id if everything is alright.
By accepting the machine id with the bits 31:28 set to 1, the sunxi-3.4
kernel effectively certifies that it has the PLL5 clock speed and
AXP209 DCDC3 voltage fixes applied.
It is still possible to set the CONFIG_OLD_SUNXI_KERNEL_COMPAT option
in U-Boot if the user desires to use an outdated unpatched sunxi-3.4
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The CPU info is already logged during boot e.g.
CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
so the prompt is just one more thing to change for each new SoC, just makes it
"sunxi#" instead.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Mostly automatic with:
sed -i -e 's/CONFIG_\(SUN[45678]I\)/CONFIG_MACH_\1/g' $(git grep -l CONFIG_SUN[45678]I)
followed by removing the relevant #defines from include/configs/sun?i.h by
hand.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Many people are still using old linux-sunxi-3.4 kernels on sunxi devices,
adding the proper MACH_TYPE defines for this allows people to switch to
upstream u-boot, so that we can stop maintaining the linux-sunxi u-boot fork.
These machine-ids are all properly registered at:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Specific USB EHCI settings to be set for sun5i if CONFIG_USB_EHCI is enabled.
Note we don't specify default VBUS gpio pins for sun5i since they vary too
much from board to board.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Add support for the x-powers axp209 pmic which is found on most A10, A13 and
A20 boards.
And enable AXP209 support for the Cubietruck and Cubieboard boards.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Add support for the Allwinner A13 and A10s SoCs also know as the Allwinner
sun5i family, and the A13-OLinuXinoM A13 based and r7-tv-dongle A10s based
boards.
The only differences compared to the already supported sun4i and sun7i
families are all in the DRAM controller initialization:
-Different hcpr values
-Different MBUS settings
-Some other small initialization changes
Signed-off-by: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
