[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 25/26] sunxi: introduce RMR switch to enter payloads in 64-bit mode

[Maxime Ripard]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 01:50:15AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The ARMv8 capable Allwinner A64 SoC comes out of reset in AArch32 mode.
> To run AArch64 code, we have to trigger a warm reset via the RMR register,
> which proceeds with code execution at the address stored in the RVBAR
> register.
> If the bootable payload in the FIT image is using a different
> architecture than the SPL has been compiled for, enter it via this said
> RMR switch mechanism, by writing the entry point address into the MMIO
> mapped, writable version of the RVBAR register.
> Then the warm reset is triggered via a system register write.
> If the payload architecture is the same as the SPL, we use the normal
> branch as usual.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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