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Linus Walleij
cc4dcd488c board: stemmy: Increase boot image to 64 MB
When using a recent kernel with a bunch of compiled-in
stuff the kernel image easily becomes bigger than 8 MB
yielding this error:

  Loading Kernel Image
  Image too large: increase CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN
  Must RESET board to recover

Fix this by bumping to SZ_64MB.

Cc: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
2022-01-04 16:58:23 -05:00
Tom Rini
9774462e34 arm: Disable ATAGs support
With the exceptions of ds109, ds414, icnova-a20-swac, nokia_rx51 and
stemmy, disable ATAG support.  A large number of platforms had enabled
support but never supported a kernel so old as to require it.  Further,
some platforms are old enough to support both, but are well supported by
devicetree booting, and have been for a number of years.  This is
because some of the ATAGs related functions have been re-used to provide
the same kind of information, but for devicetree or just generally to
inform the user.  When needed still, rename these functions to
get_board_revision() instead, to avoid conflicts.  In other cases, these
functions were simply unused, so drop them.

Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: Stefan Bosch <stefan_b@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2021-09-07 16:22:30 -04:00
Stephan Gerhold
f64011e11e board: stemmy: Add basic Fastboot support
Make use of the new drivers for ARM U8500 introduced in the U-Boot
2021.10 merge window by adding basic support for USB Fastboot with
the "stemmy" board. As a first step this will always boot directly
into USB Fastboot for now with the console displayed on the screen
to make that obvious.

Samsung uses quite strange GPT partition labels on these boards,
so also add a bunch of fastboot_partition_alias_* to make this more
easy to use.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
2021-09-01 19:25:37 -04:00
Tom Rini
7cfbba36e9 Convert CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN to Kconfig
This converts the following to Kconfig:
   CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rick Chen <rick@andestech.com>
2021-08-31 17:47:49 -04:00
Tom Rini
a2ac2b964b Convert CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT et al to Kconfig
This converts the following to Kconfig:
   CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
   CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY

In order to do this, we need to introduce SPL and TPL variants of these
options so that we can clearly disable these options only in SPL in some
cases, and both instances in other cases.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2021-08-31 17:47:49 -04:00
Tom Rini
49c8ef0e45 Convert CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR to Kconfig
Now that we have consistent usage, migrate this symbol to Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Rick Chen <rick@andestech.com>
2021-08-31 17:46:37 -04:00
Stephan Gerhold
e2f82f93f8 board: stemmy: Copy atags for booting downstream/vendor kernel
The U-Boot "stemmy" board is mainly intended to simplify booting
mainline Linux on various smartphones from Samsung based on ST-Ericsson
Ux500. While the mainline kernel is working great, there are still some
features missing there. In particular, it is currently not possible to
charge the battery when using the mainline kernel.

This means that it is still necessary to boot the downstream/vendor
kernel from Samsung sometimes to charge the device. That kernel is
ancient, still uses board files + ATAGS instead of device trees and
relies on a strange very long kernel command line hardcoded in the
Samsung bootloader.

Actually, since mainline is booted with device trees there is a very
simple way to make the old downstream kernel work as well: We can
simply take most of the ATAGS passed to U-Boot from the Samsung
bootloader and copy them as-is when booting a kernel without device
tree. That way the long command line and other needed ATAGS are copied
as-is without having to bother with them.

The only exception is the ATAG_INITRD - since the initrd is loaded
by U-Boot, the atag for that should be generated in U-Boot so it points
to the correct address. All other ATAGS are copied as-is and not
generated in U-Boot.

Also use the chance and provide a serial# for U-Boot by parsing the
ATAG_SERIAL that is also passed by the Samsung bootloader.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2021-07-14 16:48:12 -04:00
Stephan Gerhold
03585d52fc board: stemmy: Parse atags to get available memory
At the moment the "stemmy" board attempts to detect the RAM size with
a simple memory test (get_ram_size()). Unfortunately, this does not work
correctly for devices with 768 MiB RAM (e.g. Samsung Galaxy Ace 2
(GT-I8160), "codina"). Reading/writing memory after the 768 MiB RAM
succeeds but actually overwrites some earlier parts of the memory.

For U-Boot this does not result in any major problems, but on Linux
this will eventually lead to strange crashes because of the memory
corruption.

Since the "stemmy" U-Boot port is designed to be chainloaded from
the original Samsung bootloader, the most reliable way to get the
available amount of RAM is to look at the ATAGS passed by the Samsung
bootloader. Fortunately, the header used to generate ATAGS in U-Boot
(asm/setup.h) can also be easily used to parse them.

Also clarify and simplify stemmy.h a bit to make it more clear where
some of the magic values in there are actually coming from.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2021-07-14 16:48:11 -04:00
Stephan Gerhold
43d28855d8 board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500
The ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC has been used in mass-production for
some Android smartphones released around 2012.
In particular, Samsung has released more than 5 different
smartphones based on U8500, e.g.

  - Samsung Galaxy S III mini (GT-I8190) "golden"
  - Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070)  "janice"
  - Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710)   "skomer"

and a few others.

Mainline Linux has great support for the Ux500 SoC, so these
smartphones can also run Linux mainline quite well.

Unfortunately, the original Samsung bootloader used on these devices
has limitations that prevent booting Linux mainline directly.
It keeps the L2 cache enabled, which causes Linux to crash very early,
shortly after decompressing the kernel.

Using U-Boot allows to circumvent these limitations. We can let the
Samsung bootloader chain-load U-Boot and U-Boot locks the L2 cache
before booting into Linux. U-Boot has several other advantages
- it supports device-trees directly and we are no longer limited to
flashing Android boot images through Samsung's proprietary download
mode.

The Samsung "stemmy" board covers all Samsung devices based on U8500.
Add minimal support for "stemmy". For now only UART is supported but
this will be extended later.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2020-01-22 17:47:57 -05:00