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Tom Rini
65cc0e2a65 global: Move remaining CONFIG_SYS_* to CFG_SYS_*
The rest of the unmigrated CONFIG symbols in the CONFIG_SYS namespace do
not easily transition to Kconfig. In many cases they likely should come
from the device tree instead. Move these out of CONFIG namespace and in
to CFG namespace.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-12-05 16:06:08 -05:00
Stephan Gerhold
f629895fa3 board: stemmy: Update documentation
Over the time, the "stemmy" U-Boot board was tested on several other
Samsung smartphones based on ST-Ericsson NovaThor Ux500. Convert the
documentation to reStructuredText at doc/board/ste/stemmy.rst and
make the device list complete. Also note that the board now boots
into USB Fastboot instead of just ending up at the U-Boot prompt.

The device table is mostly taken from the postmarketOS wiki article
(https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/ST-Ericsson_NovaThor_U8500).
All the newly added devices were tested by Linus Walleij.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
2021-09-01 19:25:37 -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
Simon Glass
691d719db7 common: Drop init.h from common header
Move this uncommon header out of the common header.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2020-05-18 17:33:33 -04:00
Simon Glass
90526e9fba common: Drop net.h from common header
Move this header out of the common header. Network support is used in
quite a few places but it still does not warrant blanket inclusion.

Note that this net.h header itself has quite a lot in it. It could be
split into the driver-mode support, functions, structures, checksumming,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2020-05-18 17:33:31 -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
Stephan Gerhold
689088f9da arm: Add support for ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC
The NovaThor U8500 SoC was released by ST-Ericsson in 2011.
It was used for some development boards like the CALAO Systems
Snowball SBC, but mass production was primarily for Android
smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S III mini.

Previous support for U8500 was removed in
commit 68282f55b8 ("arm: Remove unused ST-Ericsson u8500 arch")
since none of the boards were converted to generic boards
before the deadline.

The new code does not have much in common with the previous code.
I have completely rewritten everything, embracing the Driver Model
and device trees wherever possible.

The U8500 support is a bit more minimal for now - my primary
use case is to use U-Boot as alternative bootloader for some of the
U8500 Samsung smartphones. At the moment U-Boot is chain-loaded from
the original Samsung bootloader. A side effect of this is that we
can (temporarily) get away without implementing some functionality
- e.g. all clocks are already enabled by the original bootloader.

More functionality will be added in future patches.

Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: John Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2020-01-22 17:47:57 -05:00