[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/5] arm: Reduce the scope of lowlevel_init()

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 10 22:35:09 CET 2015


This function has grown into something of a monster. Some boards are setting
up a console and DRAM here in SPL. This requires global_data which should be
set up in one place (crt0.S).

There is no need for SPL to use s_init() for anything since board_init_f()
is called immediately afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3: None
Changes in v2: None

 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/lowlevel_init.S | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/lowlevel_init.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/lowlevel_init.S
index f1aea05..4803150 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/lowlevel_init.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/lowlevel_init.S
@@ -17,24 +17,27 @@
 
 ENTRY(lowlevel_init)
 	/*
-	 * Setup a temporary stack
+	 * Setup a temporary stack. Global data is not available yet.
 	 */
 	ldr	sp, =CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR
-	bic	sp, sp, #7 /* 8-byte alignment for ABI compliance */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
-	ldr	r9, =gdata
-#else
-	sub	sp, sp, #GD_SIZE
-	bic	sp, sp, #7
-	mov	r9, sp
-#endif
+	mov	r9, #0
 	/*
 	 * Save the old lr(passed in ip) and the current lr to stack
 	 */
 	push	{ip, lr}
 
 	/*
-	 * go setup pll, mux, memory
+	 * Call the very early init function. This should do only the
+	 * absolute bare minimum to get started. It should not:
+	 *
+	 * - set up DRAM
+	 * - use global_data
+	 * - clear BSS
+	 * - try to start a console
+	 *
+	 * For boards with SPL this should be empty since SPL can do all of
+	 * this init in the SPL board_init_f() function which is called
+	 * immediately after this.
 	 */
 	bl	s_init
 	pop	{ip, pc}
-- 
2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c



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