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

Keerthy a0393675 at ti.com
Thu Jul 28 14:42:15 CEST 2016


Hi Marek,

On Thursday 28 July 2016 05:38 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 07/27/2016 05:37 AM, Keerthy wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> Please resubmit fixed patch. Also please add your full name as the
> author, otherwise the patches can not be applied.
>

I will re-submit the patches with the correct link.

Coming to the name. My full name is Keerthy and that is the name i have 
been using for the last 4-5 years in the mailing list. I do not have a 
surname.

- Keerthy
> See ie. https://lwn.net/Articles/195643/
>
>>>
>>> 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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