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Siarhei Siamashka
77ef136950 sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels
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frequencies and PMIC voltages in order not to upset outdated buggy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in U-Boot if the user desires to use an outdated unpatched sunxi-3.4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>
2015-02-21 16:54:29 +01:00
Ian Campbell
4e7c892d15 sunxi: Use a common CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT
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>
2015-01-23 15:15:51 +01:00
Hans de Goede
115200ceb0 sunxi: ehci: Add proper Kconfig options to select the usb Vbus gpio-s
Add proper Kconfig options to select the usb Vbus gpio-s, besides moving to
Kconfig being the right thing to do, an added advantage of this is that it
allows for boards without Vbus gpio-s.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
2014-11-13 14:49:02 +01:00
Ian Campbell
ed41e62f51 sunxi: Use CONFIG_MACH_SUN?I from Kconfig instead of CONFIG_SUN?I
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>
2014-11-05 13:09:58 +01:00
Hans de Goede
e711891685 sunxi: Add CONFIG_MACH_TYPE defines to sun4i, sun5i and sun7i
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>
2014-10-24 09:35:38 +02:00
Hans de Goede
906f609681 sun4i: add USB EHCI settings
Specific USB EHCI settings to be set for sun4i if CONFIG_USB_EHCI is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
2014-07-31 15:37:23 +02:00
Henrik Nordstrom
14bc66bd9a sunxi: Add axp209 pmic support
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>
2014-07-18 19:42:10 +01:00
Hans de Goede
745325a97d sunxi: Add sun4i support
Add support for the Allwinner A10 SoC also known as the Allwinner sun4i family,
and add the Cubieboard board which uses the A10 SoC.

Compared to sun7 only the DRAM controller is a bit different:
-Controller reset bits are inverted, but only for Rev. A
-Different hpcr values
-No MBUS on sun4i
-Various other 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>
2014-07-06 20:12:44 +01:00