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frequencies and PMIC voltages in order not to upset outdated buggy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in U-Boot if the user desires to use an outdated unpatched sunxi-3.4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>
While discussing with some people how to get the Linux kernel to do the
right thing wrt sending output to both the serial console and the
hdmi out / lcd screen when booting on ARM devices, Grant Likely pointed out
that there already is a solution for this.
All we need to do is set the /chosen/stdout-path fdt property, and if no
console= arguments were specified on the kernel commandline the kernel
will honor this and add this device as a console (next to the primary
video output on hdmi).
And u-boot already has support for setting this, all we need to do is
define OF_STDOUT_PATH and then everything will just work ootb, without
people needing to meddle with adding console= arguments in extlinux.conf .
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
This commits adds support for configuring a a bitbang i2c controller, which
is used on some boards to configure the LCD panel (via i2c).
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
This allows to define the ethaddr env variable according to the the IVM
content by reading the IVM in misc_init_r.
Later, when HUSH is available the content read earlier is analyzed to
populate some non env variables.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp@keymile.com>
Make sunxi's FEL code fit with the normal U-Boot boot sequence instead of
creating its own. There are some #ifdefs required in start.S. Future work
will hopefully remove these.
This series is available at u-boot-dm, branch sunxi-working.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Do not use CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE for the framebuffer, instead override
board_get_usable_ram_top to make sure that u-boot is not relocated into the
area where we want to use the framebuffer, and patch the devicetree from
sunxi_simplefb_setup() to tell the kernel to not touch the framebuffer.
This makes u-boot properly see the framebuffer as dram, and initalize the
level 2 cache for it, fixing the very slow cfb scrolling problem.
As an added bonus this stops us from reserving the framebuffer when simplefb
is not used because an older kernel is booted, or hdp is used and no hdmi
cable was plugged in, freeing up the memory for kernel use in these cases.
Reported-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
SILK is an entry level development board based on R-Car E2 SoC (R8A7794)
This commit supports the following peripherals:
- SCIF, I2C, Ethernet, QSPI, MMC, USB Host
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Barinov <vladimir.barinov@cogentembedded.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
Remove driver model CONFIGs from the board config headers and use Kconfig
instead.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Many CONFIG options have an unnecessary value of 1. CONFIG_440 is set in
the various board config files. Also simplify the CONFIG_440 check in
config.mk
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Use the bootz command to load zImages in case of any new boot scripts. Only
the legacy one will still use bootm. Apart form the fact, that this will
simplify the image generation process, it saves one copy of the kernel
image: Common practice is to generate an uImage with a loading address of
0x8000. This uImage contains a compressed zImage, which will unpack the
kernel image to the beginning of the RAM. But because there is already the
compressed image the uncompressor first relocates the compressed image to a
higher location. The load address is encoded into the uImage which is
generated by the distributions and thus cannot be easily changed. By using
the bootz command we can load the compressed image to a higher memory
address and the decompressor doesn't have to reloacte the image.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
The dtb was loaded at a memory address after the initial ramdisk. Thus a
large ramdisk would overwrite the dtb. Move it to "ramdisk_start - 64k".
64k should be enough for the device tree blob. Also the kernel
documentation arm/Booting suggests to put the dtb before the initial
ramdisk.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
The load addresses for the bootcmd_legacy script were taken from the
original bootloader from Buffalo. But newer kernels are too big and the
uncompressing will overwrite parts of the initial ramdisk. Therefore,
we switch to the load addresses which are also used by the other boot
script.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
The recent changes to config_distro_bootcmd.h require CONFIG_CMD_PART to be
defined, as the default bootcmd not uses the "part" command.
This fixes sunxi boards not booting with v2015.04-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
This patch has some parts connected together:
- Use _gd in bss section which is automatically cleared
Location at SPL_MALLOC_END wasn't cleared at all
- Use MALLOC_F_LEN(early alloc) instead of FULL MALLOC
(mem_malloc_init is not called at all)
- Simplify malloc and stack init.
At the end of SPL addr is malloc area and below is stack
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Compile code with -fPIC to get GOT. Do not build SPL
with fPIC because it increasing SPL size for nothing.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Following SPARK ARC now has SYS_MONITOR_BASE setup via Kconfig.
This makes "include/configs/*.h" cleaner and more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Common arch_early_init_r() is used in "arc/lib/cpu.c" for all ARC boards
so there's no sense in separate per-board definitions.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Currently there's nothing related to really low-level init on ARC so
CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT definition makes no sense.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
