[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 01/11] ARM: fix relocation on ARM926EJS

[José Miguel Gonçalves]

On 17-09-2012 18:18, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 05:36:47PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Dear Jos? Miguel Gon?alves,
>>
>>> On 09/16/2012 11:06 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> Dear Jos? Miguel Gon?alves,
>>>>
>>>>> On 09/15/2012 07:03 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Jos? Miguel Gon?alves,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jumping to board_init_r is not performed due to a bug on address
>>>>>>> computation.
>>>>>> Is your CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE configured correctly? I don't detect any
>>>>>> misbehavior on my arm926 boards.
>>>>> Maybe because you are not using it to build an SPL?
>>>> I do ... and I use CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE properly .
>>>>> Please check the same chunk of code in other start.S for arm1176 and
>>>>> armv7. They have the same code that I put for arm926ejs.
>>>> Please wait and please first explain what is the issue.
>>> The issue is what I've explained in the patch comments.
>> "Jumping to board_init_r is not performed due to a bug on address computation."
>>
>> Ok, I don't know how to replicate the bug from this comment or what effects it
>> causes or ... well, anything. So please, try to be more elaborate in your patch
>> description next time. Anyway ..
>>
>>> Without this
>>> change the code never reaches board_init_r in the SPL and I think I have
>>> all the configurations correctly set.
>> I wonder why you'd ever want to reach board_init_r in the SPL. SPL is there only
>> to load the real U-Boot from whatever media, so you usually use either NAND SPL
> Here's a good point for me to jump in, I think.  There's two things to
> understand:
> - In the current in-tree SPL implementations the code flow is
>    board_init_f calls relocate_code() to clear the BSS _and_ get our jump
>    to board_init_r.  It does not actually relocate the running U-Boot,
>    just clears the BSS.  board_init_r is what calls the things to load
>    and boot the next stage (U-Boot or Linux).
>
> - In my series this has been changed slightly to be board_init_f calls
>    memset and then board_init_r directly.  So this patch should not be
>    needed once rebased on that series.

OK Tom. I will start working on rebasing the MINI2416 board support on the new SPL 
framework.
If I have any doubts I will get in touch with you...

Best regards,
José Gonçalves