[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Introduce function to switch to hypervisor mode

Keerthy a0393675 at ti.com
Wed Jul 27 05:37:31 CEST 2016



On Wednesday 27 July 2016 09:05 AM, Keerthy wrote:
> On SoCs like DRA7, OMAP5 one cannot enable hypervisor mode directly from the
> u-boot because the ROM code puts the chip to supervisor mode after it
> jumps to boot loader.
>
> Patch 1: Introduces a weak function which can be overridden specific to
> SoCs to switch to hypervisor mode.
>
> Patch 2: overrides weak function in patch 1 switch cpu to hypervisor
> mode using the available ROM code hook early in the boot phase before
> the boot loader checks for hypervisor mode on OMAP5 based SoCs.
>
> Based on top of http://patchwork.dal.design.ti.com/patch/24937/.

Please ignore the above link.

Based on:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-June/258300.html

>
> Keerthy (2):
>    ARM: Introduce function to switch to hypervisor mode
>    ARM: OMAP5+: Override switch_to_hypervisor function
>
>   arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S                     | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   arch/arm/include/asm/system.h                  |  1 +
>   3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
>


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