[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] vexpress: Check TC2 firmware support before defaulting to nonsec booting

Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy at linaro.org
Thu Jun 23 14:37:32 CEST 2016


The firmware on TC2 needs to be configured appropriately before booting
in nonsec mode will work as expected, so test for this and fall back to
sec mode if required.

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
---

This is an implementation of Andre's suggestion in
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-June/258873.html

Possibly the change to bootm.c should be in a separate patch?

 arch/arm/lib/bootm.c                 | 15 ++++++++++-----
 board/armltd/vexpress/Makefile       |  1 +
 board/armltd/vexpress/vexpress_tc2.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 board/armltd/vexpress/vexpress_tc2.c

diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
index 0838d89..766a0c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/bootm.c
@@ -248,15 +248,20 @@ static void boot_prep_linux(bootm_headers_t *images)
 	}
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARMV7_NONSEC
-bool armv7_boot_nonsec(void)
+__weak bool armv7_boot_nonsec_default(void)
 {
-	char *s = getenv("bootm_boot_mode");
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARMV7_BOOT_SEC_DEFAULT
-	bool nonsec = false;
+	return false;
 #else
-	bool nonsec = true;
+	return true;
 #endif
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARMV7_NONSEC
+bool armv7_boot_nonsec(void)
+{
+	char *s = getenv("bootm_boot_mode");
+	bool nonsec = armv7_boot_nonsec_default();
 
 	if (s && !strcmp(s, "sec"))
 		nonsec = false;
diff --git a/board/armltd/vexpress/Makefile b/board/armltd/vexpress/Makefile
index 1dd6780..95f4ec0 100644
--- a/board/armltd/vexpress/Makefile
+++ b/board/armltd/vexpress/Makefile
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 #
 
 obj-y	:= vexpress_common.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_TARGET_VEXPRESS_CA15_TC2)	+= vexpress_tc2.o
diff --git a/board/armltd/vexpress/vexpress_tc2.c b/board/armltd/vexpress/vexpress_tc2.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f00a83c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/board/armltd/vexpress/vexpress_tc2.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2016 Linaro
+ * Jon Medhurst <tixy at linaro.org>
+ *
+ * TC2 specific code for Versatile Express.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+#include <asm/io.h>
+
+#define SCC_BASE	0x7fff0000
+
+bool armv7_boot_nonsec_default(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARMV7_BOOT_SEC_DEFAULT
+	return false
+#else
+	/*
+	 * The Serial Configuration Controller (SCC) register at address 0x700
+	 * contains flags for configuring the behaviour of the Boot Monitor
+	 * (which CPUs execute from reset). Two of these bits are of interest:
+	 *
+	 * bit 12 = Use per-cpu mailboxes for power management
+	 * bit 13 = Power down the non-boot cluster
+	 *
+	 * It is only when both of these are false that U-Boot's current
+	 * implementation of 'nonsec' mode can work as expected because we
+	 * rely on getting all CPUs to execute _nonsec_init, so let's check that.
+	 */
+	return (readl((u32 *)(SCC_BASE + 0x700)) & ((1 << 12) | (1 << 13))) == 0;
+#endif
+}
-- 
2.1.4




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