[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc

[Tom Rini]

On 08/24/2012 12:01 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 08/23/2012 11:39 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 08/23/2012 01:12 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>
>>> This patch enables the SPL framework to be used on powerpc platforms
>>> and not only ARM.
>> [snip]
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM
>>>  	gd = &gdata;
>>> +#endif
>>
>> So, here's what I don't understand.  On ARM, in general, we can't rely
>> on the global data pointer register (r8) to be set to a useful value, so
>> we do the above to ensure it points to something useful.  Are you always
>> able to rely on r2 it looks like pointing to something useful?  Or do
>> you take care of this much earlier on in powerpc?  Thanks!
> 
> You are correct, I missed something here. r2 was still configured to the
> value written to it from the "real" U-Boot (pointing to internal SRAM).
> 
> I can't use the code in preloader_console_init() though to setup the gd
> pointer. As I need to write some values in gd *before* calling
> preloader_console_init() (mainly clocks for serial driver). And since
> this "gd stuff" is quite platform specific, we should probably move this
> into an platform/arch spl file instead. As you also mentioned in another
> reply to create an arch/${ARCH}/lib/spl.c file.
> 
> What do you think? Can you move this gd init stuff into such a common
> ARM spl file in the next patchset version?

Yes.  We should probably say it's the job of board_init_f.  I know full
U-Boot does it at the start of board_init_r but I think for SPL it makes
sense to document that board_init_f does any early init it needs to,
clears BSS, sets up gd and calls board_init_r.

-- 
Tom