This commit adds support for HDMI output.
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
This commit adds support for DM I2C on sunxi platform. It can coexist
with old style sunxi I2C driver, because it is still used in SPL and
by some SoCs.
Because sunxi platform doesn't yet support DM clk, reset and pinctrl
driver, workaround is needed to enable clocks and set resets and
pinctrls. This is done by calling i2c_init_board() in board_init().
This means that CONFIG_I2Cx_ENABLE options needs to be correctly set
in order to use needed I2C controller.
Commit is based on the previous patch made by Philipp Tomsich
Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Currently $fdtfile is constructed from CONFIG_DEFAULT_TREE, containing
the filename. However on arm64 that file is located in an allwinner
subdirectory.
To avoid the need for users/distros symlinking the .dtb files, prepend
the vendor directory for ARM64.
This aligns Pine64 with other boards such as Raspberry Pi 3.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Basic U-Boot support is now present for V3s.
Some memory addresses are changed specially for V3s, as the original
address map cannot fit into a so small DRAM.
As the DRAM controller code needs a big refactor, the SPL support is
disabled in this version.
Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Convert the CONS_INDEX configuration to Kconfig.
Update sunxi's defconfigs to remove SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS variable not
needed anymore.
Default value is 1 except for sun5i (equals 2) and sun8i (equals 5).
Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand@free-electrons.com>
[Maxime: Added a depends on ARCH_SUNXI to avoid build breakages]
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
On boards that defines ENV_IS_NOWHERE, such as the NES classic, commit
19dbe7d1a3f7 ("common: Move environment choice to Kconfig") broke the build
because of a missing environment size.
Reintroduce a default environment size consistent with what we had before.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
In order for the user to be able to see and modify them, add those
variables to the default environment.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Enable the NAND and UBI support in the configuration header so that we can
(finally) use it.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
The environment location is something that might change per board
(depending on what storage options are availaible there) or depending on
the user choice (when we have several options).
Instead of hardcoding it in our configuration header, create a Kconfig
choice with the options we use for now, and the symbols that depend on it.
Once done, also remove the irrelevant sunxi defines.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
With d53ecad92f some unused interrupt related code was removed.
However all of these options are currently unused. Rather than migrate
some of these options to Kconfig we just remove the code in question.
The only related code changes here are that in some cases we use
CONFIG_STACKSIZE in non-IRQ related context. In these cases we rename
and move the value local to the code in question.
Fixes: d53ecad92f ("Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-sunxi")
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Traditionally Allwinner SoCs have their boot ROM mapped just below 4GB,
while the first SRAM region is mapped at address 0.
With the extended physical memory support of the A80 this was changed,
so the BROM is now at address 0 and the SRAM region starts right behind
this at 64KB. This configuration seems to be called "high SRAM".
Instead of enumerating the SoCs which have copied this configuration,
let's call a spade a spade and introduce a Kconfig option for this setup.
SoCs implementing this (A80, A64 and H5, so far), can then select this
configuration.
Simplify the config header definition on the way.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
For some reason we were pretty conservative when defining the maximum
SPL size for the Allwinner A80(sun9i) SoC.
According to the manual the SRAM A1 is even 40KB, but the BROM
probably still has the 32 KiB load limit. For the sake of simplicity,
merge the SPL memory definitions for the A64 and A80 SoCs, since both
SoC share the BROM/SRAM A1 memory layout.
This helps to further simplify this is in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Many ARMv8 boards define a constant COUNTER_FREQUENCY to specify the
frequency of the ARM Generic Timer (aka. arch timer).
ARMv7 boards traditionally used CONFIG_TIMER_CLK_FREQ for the same
purpose. It seems useful to unify them.
Since there are less occurences of the latter version, lets convert all
users over to COUNTER_FREQUENCY.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Move this in to Kconfig with a default of 115200.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
[trini: Run moveconfig.py, reword commit slightly]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Today, we have cases where we wish to build all of U-Boot in Thumb2 mode for
various reasons. We also have cases where we only build SPL in Thumb2 mode due
to size constraints and wish to build the rest of the system in ARM mode. So
in this migration we introduce a new symbol as well, SPL_SYS_THUMB_BUILD to
control if we build everything or just SPL (or in theory, just U-Boot) in
Thumb2 mode.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
We repeated partial moves for CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH, but this is
not completed. Finish this work by the tool.
During this move, let's rename it to CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH.
Actually, we have more instances of "#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH"
than those of "#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH". Flipping the logic will
make the code more readable. Besides, negative meaning symbols do
not fit in obj-$(CONFIG_...) style Makefiles.
This commit was created as follows:
[1] Edit "default n" to "default y" in the config entry in
common/Kconfig.
[2] Run "tools/moveconfig.py -y -r HEAD SYS_NO_FLASH"
[3] Rename the instances in defconfigs by the following:
find . -path './configs/*_defconfig' | xargs sed -i \
-e '/CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH=y/d' \
-e 's/# CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH is not set/CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH=y/'
[4] Change the conditionals by the following:
find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs sed -i \
-e 's/ifndef CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH/ifdef CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH/' \
-e 's/ifdef CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH/ifndef CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH/' \
-e 's/!defined(CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH)/defined(CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH)/' \
-e 's/defined(CONFIG_SYS_NO_FLASH)/!defined(CONFIG_MTD_NOR_FLASH)/'
[5] Modify the following manually
- Rename the rest of instances
- Remove the description from README
- Create the new Kconfig entry in drivers/mtd/Kconfig
- Remove the old Kconfig entry from common/Kconfig
- Remove the garbage comments from include/configs/*.h
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Now, CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC seems equivalent to CONFIG_MMC.
Let's create an entry for "config GENERIC_MMC" with "default MMC",
then convert all macro defines in headers to Kconfig. Almost all
of the defines will go away.
I see only two exceptions:
configs/blanche_defconfig
configs/sandbox_noblk_defconfig
They define CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC, but not CONFIG_MMC. Something
might be wrong with these two boards, so should be checked later.
Anyway, this is the output of the moveconfig tool.
This commit was created as follows:
[1] create a config entry in drivers/mmc/Kconfig
[2] tools/moveconfig.py -r HEAD GENERIC_MMC
[3] manual clean-up of garbage comments in doc/README.* and
include/configs/*.h
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Move (and rename) the following CONFIG options to Kconfig:
CONFIG_DAVINCI_MMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_DAVINCI)
CONFIG_OMAP_HSMMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_HS)
CONFIG_MXC_MMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_MXC)
CONFIG_MXS_MMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_MXS)
CONFIG_TEGRA_MMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_TEGRA)
CONFIG_SUNXI_MMC (renamed to CONFIG_MMC_SUNXI)
They are the same option names as used in Linux.
This commit was created as follows:
[1] Rename the options with the following command:
find . -name .git -prune -o ! -path ./scripts/config_whitelist.txt \
-type f -print | xargs sed -i -e '
s/CONFIG_DAVINCI_MMC/CONFIG_MMC_DAVINCI/g
s/CONFIG_OMAP_HSMMC/CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_HS/g
s/CONFIG_MXC_MMC/CONFIG_MMC_MXC/g
s/CONFIG_MXS_MMC/CONFIG_MMC_MXS/g
s/CONFIG_TEGRA_MMC/CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_TEGRA/g
s/CONFIG_SUNXI_MMC/CONFIG_MMC_SUNXI/g
'
[2] Commit the changes
[3] Create entries in driver/mmc/Kconfig.
(copied from Linux)
[4] Move the options with the following command
tools/moveconfig.py -y -r HEAD \
MMC_DAVINCI MMC_OMAP_HS MMC_MXC MMC_MXS MMC_SDHCI_TEGRA MMC_SUNXI
[5] Sort and align drivers/mmc/Makefile for readability
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Now that the SPL is ready to be compiled in AArch64 and the DRAM
init code is ready, enable SPL support for the A64 SoC and in the
Pine64 defconfig.
For now we keep the boot0 header in the U-Boot proper, as this allows
to still use boot0 as an SPL replacement without hurting the SPL use
case.
We disable FEL support for now by making its compilation conditional
and disabling it for ARM64, as the code isn't ready yet.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
The predominantely 32-bit ARM targets try to compile the SPL in Thumb
mode to reduce code size.
The 64-bit AArch64 instruction set does not know an alternative, concise
encoding, so the Thumb build option should only be set for 32-bit
targets.
Likewise -marm machine options are only valid for ARMv7 targets.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
Set CONFIG_SYS_MMC_MAX_DEVICE to 4 for sunxi SoC.
This define is needed in the API code.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
CONFIG_SUNXI -> CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI
and removed CONFIG_SUNIX from config_whitelist.txt
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
This converts the following to Kconfig:
CONFIG_SYS_STDIO_DEREGISTER
This option should never be enabled in SPL, so use
CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(SYS_STDIO_DEREGISTER) when checking the option.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
[trini: Re-sync]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
This converts the following to Kconfig:
CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
[trini: Re-convert, find all the cases where this is off]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
This converts the following to Kconfig:
CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
Once we migrate to driver model for video, we should be able to drop this
option.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This converts the following to Kconfig:
CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
CONFIG_CONSOLE_MUX
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
[trini: Re-order, re-migrate]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Create a Kconfig entry for DISPLAY_BOARDINFO and make it be the default
in certain architectures. Migrate all config files.
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Create a Kconfig entry for DISPLAY_CPUINFO and make it be the default
in certain architectures. Migrate all config files.
Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Introduce a hidden USB_FUNCTION_DFU Kconfig option and select it for
CMD_DFU (as we must have the DFU command enabled to do anything DFU).
Make all of the entries in drivers/dfu/Kconfig depend on CMD_DFU and add
options for all of the back end choices that DFU can make use of.
Cc: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
Move the config IDENT_STRING to Kconfig and migrate all boards
[sivadur: Migrate zynq boards]
Signed-off-by: Siva Durga Prasad Paladugu <sivadur@xilinx.com>
[trini: Update configs, add some default to sunxi Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
This commit moved the SPL stack into SRAM C, which worked when the SPL
set the AHB1 clock down to 100 MHz to cope with the flaky SRAM C access
from the CPU.
However booting with boot0 (and thus not using SPL at all) we still run
with a 200 MHz AHB1, so any access to SRAM C is prone to fail.
Since this commit does _not_ only affect the SPL code, but also the
U-Boot proper, we fail when booting with boot0.
As the introduction of tiny-printf reduced the size of the SPL, we
can afford to have the SPL stack in SRAM A1.
This reverts commit 1a83fb4a17
and fixes booting the Pine64 when using boot0.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
This series moves the CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE. First, in nearly all
cases we are mirroring the values used by the Linux Kernel here. Also,
so long as (and in this case, it is true) we implement flushes in hunks
that are no larger than the smallest implementation (and given that we
mirror the Linux Kernel, again we are fine) it is OK to align higher.
The biggest changes here are that we always use 64 bytes for CPU_V7 even
if for example the underlying core is only 32 bytes (this mirrors
Linux). Second, we say ARM64 uses 64 bytes not 128 (as found in the
Linux Kernel) as we do not need multi-platform support (to this degree)
and only the Cavium ThunderX 88xx series has a use for such large
alignment.
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
Cc: Luka Perkov <luka.perkov@sartura.hr>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Nagendra T S <nagendra@mistralsolutions.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav@ti.com>
Acked-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Cc: Steve Rae <steve.rae@raedomain.com>
Cc: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il>
Cc: Nikita Kiryanov <nikita@compulab.co.il>
Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner@toradex.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Cc: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Acked-by: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Sakoman <sakoman@gmail.com>
Cc: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Robert Baldyga <r.baldyga@samsung.com>
Cc: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: David Feng <fenghua@phytium.com.cn>
Cc: Alison Wang <b18965@freescale.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Cc: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
Cc: Shengzhou Liu <Shengzhou.Liu@nxp.com>
Cc: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
Cc: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar.kushwaha@nxp.com>
Cc: Aneesh Bansal <aneesh.bansal@freescale.com>
Cc: Saksham Jain <saksham.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: Qianyu Gong <qianyu.gong@nxp.com>
Cc: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@nxp.com>
Cc: Alex Porosanu <alexandru.porosanu@freescale.com>
Cc: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@nxp.com>
Cc: tang yuantian <Yuantian.Tang@freescale.com>
Cc: Rajesh Bhagat <rajesh.bhagat@nxp.com>
Cc: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Cc: Bo Shen <voice.shen@atmel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm@oevsv.at>
Cc: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Ricard <christophe-h.ricard@st.com>
Cc: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
Cc: Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@endlessm.com>
Cc: huang lin <hl@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Xu Ziyuan <xzy.xu@rock-chips.com>
Cc: "jk.kernel@gmail.com" <jk.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ariel D'Alessandro" <ariel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Cc: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Samuel Egli <samuel.egli@siemens.com>
Cc: Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Ben Whitten <ben.whitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Warren <twarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Cc: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
Cc: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
Cc: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
Cc: Carlos Hernandez <ceh@ti.com>
Cc: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ash Charles <ashcharles@gmail.com>
Cc: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Cc: Daniel Allred <d-allred@ti.com>
Cc: Gong Qianyu <Qianyu.Gong@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
On some sunxi boards we have NANDs exposing 1664 OOB bytes per page.
Define the CONFIG_SYS_NAND_MAX_ECCPOS value accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
We already have an SPL driver for the sunxi NAND controller, now add
the normal/standard one.
The source has been copied from Linux 4.6 with a few changes to make
it work in u-boot.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Allwinner devices support SPI flash as one of the possible
bootable media type. The SPI flash chip needs to be connected
to SPI0 pins (port C) to make this work. More information is
available at:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SPI_flash
This patch adds the initial support for booting from SPI flash.
The existing SPI frameworks are not used in order to reduce the
SPL code size. Right now the SPL size grows by ~370 bytes when
CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option is enabled.
While there are no popular Allwinner devices with SPI flash at
the moment, testing can be done using a SPI flash module (it
can be bought for ~2$ on ebay) and jumper wires with the boards,
which expose relevant pins on the expansion header. The SPI flash
chips themselves are very cheap (some prices are even listed as
low as 4 cents) and should not cost much if somebody decides to
design a development board with an SPI flash chip soldered on
the PCB.
Another nice feature of the SPI flash is that it can be safely
accessed in a device-independent way (since we know that the
boot ROM is already probing these pins during the boot time).
And if, for example, Olimex boards opted to use SPI flash instead
of EEPROM, then they would have been able to have U-Boot installed
in the SPI flash now and boot the rest of the system from the SATA
hard drive. Hopefully we may see new interesting Allwinner based
development boards in the future, now that the software support
for the SPI flash is in a better shape :-)
Testing can be done by enabling the CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option
in a board defconfig, then building U-Boot and finally flashing
the resulting u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin binary over USB OTG with
a help of the sunxi-fel tool:
sunxi-fel spiflash-write 0 u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
The device needs to be switched into FEL (USB recovery) mode first.
The most suitable boards for testing are Orange Pi PC and Pine64.
Because these boards are cheap, have no built-in NAND/eMMC and
expose SPI0 pins on the Raspberry Pi compatible expansion header.
The A13-OLinuXino-Micro board also can be used.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
