[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/8] sandbox: Add support for bootz

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk
Tue Apr 7 09:56:00 CEST 2015


On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 15:40 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 03:02 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > Add dummy bootz_setup implementation allowing the u-boot sandbox to
> > run bootz. This recognizes both ARM and x86 zImages to validate a
> > valid zImage was loaded.
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/sandbox/lib/bootm.c b/arch/sandbox/lib/bootm.c
> 
> > +int bootz_setup(ulong image, ulong *start, ulong *end)
> 
> > +	*start = 0xdead;
> > +	*end = 0xbeef;
> > +	return 0;
> 
> Isn't that going to cause the rest of bootz to access or jump to some 
> bogus address and crash?

A very good question. I hadn't actually double-checked what these values
are used for as things just worked and i got distracted by fixing other
bits & pieces. 

Looking through the code, these values are only used to add an LMB
region directly after the kernel entry load address. As the sandbox
architecture doesn't define either arch_lmb_reserve nor
board_lmb_reserve these bogus values don't cause any issues (as they
don't seem to make the generic lmb code blow-up thatis), but it's
definitely not pretty.

I'll fix up that patch a bit to make those values more meaningful later
this.

> Aside from that, this series looks plausible, so,
> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> (I read through patch 6 most thoroughly, briefly skimmed patch 7, and 
> read the others fairly quickly, so take that as an ack primarily on 
> patch 6 although I didn't see anything obviously wrong elsewhere).

Thanks for the review!

-- 
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk>
Collabora Ltd.


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