[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] kconfig: remove unneeded dependency on !SPL_BUILD

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Feb 21 03:28:54 CET 2015


Hi Masahiro,

On 20 February 2015 at 17:54, Masahiro YAMADA <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon, Stephen,
>
>
> 2015-02-21 3:39 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 20 February 2015 at 10:54, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>> On 02/20/2015 10:06 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +Stephen
>>>>
>>>> Hi Masahiro,
>>>>
>>>> On 19 February 2015 at 22:25, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Now CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is not defined in Kconfig, so
>>>>> "!depends on SPL_BUILD" and "if !SPL_BUILD" are redundant.
>>>
>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>>>> index 41f3220..700e2a8 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -739,9 +739,8 @@ config TEGRA
>>>>>          bool "NVIDIA Tegra"
>>>>>          select SUPPORT_SPL
>>>>>          select SPL
>>>>> -       select OF_CONTROL if !SPL_BUILD
>>>>> -       select CPU_ARM720T if SPL_BUILD
>>>>> -       select CPU_V7 if !SPL_BUILD
>>>>> +       select OF_CONTROL
>>>>> +       select CPU_V7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if I have missed something here. On Tegra most unfortunately the
>>>> SPL uses ARMv4t and U-Boot proper uses ARMv7. In fact that is the only
>>>> reason that Tegra has SPL. Doesn't this change with this commit?
>
>
> No.   I think behavior is still the same as before.
>
> In a single .config, we cannot define two CPUs in Kconfig.
>
> So, we only define CPU_V7, for the main processors.
>
> For SPL, we override the "CPU" in config.mk
>
> ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
> ifdef CONFIG_TEGRA
> CPU := arm720t
> endif
> endif
>
> I know what you might be saying is, this is too ugly. Yes.
>
> I think we can do a little better with further rafactoring,
> but the basic idea is, SPL of Tegra is a special case.
>

Yes I saw that, I understand now. So SPL_BUILD is no longer available
in Kconfig, but is still available in Makefiles, right?

>
>
>
>>> Yes, on Tegra SPL runs on an ARMv4t and main U-Boot on some ARMv7 CPU. The
>>> change above is actively incorrect.
>>>
>>> The OF_CONTROL change is probably incorrect too; we certainly don't intend
>>> to use OF_CONTROL in the SPL (there's really nothing to control in the SPL)
>>> - I just don't know if enabling that feature will cause any issue. Things to
>>> look out for would be bloat of the SPL binary so that it didn't fit into the
>>> space before the main binary's TEXT_BASE, since the two get concatenated
>>> together into a single binary that's loaded into RAM, and XIP'd.
>>
>> This at least is not a problem with this patch.
>>
>> I'll make some time to take a look at this in the next few days.
>>
>
> As for CONFIG_OF_CONTROL, I think my answer is already in the git-description.
> I wrote as follows:
>
>      - Add some entries to include/config_uncmd_spl.h and the new file
>        scripts/Makefile.uncmd_spl.  Some CONFIG options that are not
>        supported on SPL must be disabled because one .config is shared
>        between SPL and U-Boot proper going forward.  I know this is not
>        a beautiful solution and I think we can do better, but let's see
>        how much we will have to describe them.

So I thnk we are OK. I will give it all a test on Tegra.

Regards,
Simon


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