[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 6/6] fdt: ARM: Add fdtcontroladdr to set device tree address in environment

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Oct 25 07:15:34 CEST 2011


This adds support for a new environment variable called 'fdtcontroladdr'. If
defined, the hex address is used as the address of the control fdt for U-Boot.

Note: I have not changed CONFIG_PRAM section as I already have an
outstanding patch on that.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
Changes in v3:
- Add fdtcontroladdr environment variable

Changes in v6:
- Use the new getenv_ulong() function

 README                 |    4 ++++
 arch/arm/lib/board.c   |    3 +++
 doc/README.fdt-control |   12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 4b5ecd0..ba7b5b3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3497,6 +3497,10 @@ List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
 		  add the information it needs into it, and the memory
 		  must be accessible by the kernel.
 
+  fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
+		  device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
+		  defined.
+
   i2cfast	- (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
 		  if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
 		  mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/board.c b/arch/arm/lib/board.c
index bd6d4e3..bae2892 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/board.c
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/board.c
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ void board_init_f(ulong bootflag)
 	/* FDT is at end of image */
 	gd->fdt_blob = (void *)(_end_ofs + _TEXT_BASE);
 #endif
+	/* Allow the early environment to override the fdt address */
+	gd->fdt_blob = (void *)getenv_ulong("fdtcontroladdr", 16,
+						(uintptr_t)gd->fdt_blob);
 
 	for (init_fnc_ptr = init_sequence; *init_fnc_ptr; ++init_fnc_ptr) {
 		if ((*init_fnc_ptr)() != 0) {
diff --git a/doc/README.fdt-control b/doc/README.fdt-control
index 3f8bb5a..85bda03 100644
--- a/doc/README.fdt-control
+++ b/doc/README.fdt-control
@@ -144,6 +144,18 @@ and then flash image.bin onto your board.
 
 You cannot use both of these options at the same time.
 
+If you wish to put the fdt at a different address in memory, you can
+define the "fdtcontroladdr" environment variable. This is the hex
+address of the fdt binary blob, and will override either of the options.
+Be aware that this environment variable is checked prior to relocation,
+when only the compiled-in environment is available. Therefore it is not
+possible to define this variable in the saved SPI/NAND flash
+environment, for example (it will be ignored).
+
+To use this, put something like this in your board header file:
+
+#define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS	"fdtcontroladdr=10000\0"
+
 
 Limitations
 -----------
-- 
1.7.3.1



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