[U-Boot] [PATCH][v3] powerpc/mpc85xx: SECURE BOOT- Add secure boot target for B4860QDS

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Feb 4 00:02:21 CET 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 14:47 +0530, Aneesh Bansal wrote:
> Changes:
> 1. L2 cache is being invalidated by Boot ROM code for e6500 core.
>    So removing the invalidation from start.S
> 2. Clear the LAW and corresponding configuration for CPC. Boot ROM
>    code uses it as hosekeeping area.
> 3. For Secure boot, CPC is configured as SRAM and used as house
>    keeping area. This configuration is to be disabled once in uboot.
>    Earlier this disabling of CPC as SRAM was happening in cpu_init_r.
>    As a result cache invalidation function was getting skipped in
>    case CPC is configured as SRAM.This was causing random crashes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruchika Gupta <ruchika.gupta at freescale.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Bansal <aneesh.bansal at freescale.com>
> ---
>  README                                     |  4 ++++
>  arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/cpu_init.c        | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.S           |  3 ++-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/fsl_secure_boot.h |  6 ++++++
>  boards.cfg                                 |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Changes from v2:
> Squashed with previous patch after removing the ISBC version as per discussion.
> Changed the Subject Line.
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 176de61..3ca307f 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -428,6 +428,10 @@ The following options need to be configured:
>  		In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
>  		clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
>  
> +		CONFIG_SYS_SECURE_HKAREA_CPC
> +		This CONFIG is defined for the SoC's in which the BootROM code uses
> +		the platform cache configured as SRAM for house keeping.

What sort of house keeping?  The bootrom is finished by the time U-Boot
starts, right?  What restrictions are there on U-Boot's use of the SRAM?

-Scott




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