[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] arm64: sunxi: reserve space for boot0 header

[André Przywara]

On 06/05/16 22:15, Steve Rae wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com
> <mailto:andre.przywara at arm.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The Allwinner provided boot0 boot loader requires a header before the
>     U-Boot binary to both check its validity and to find other blobs to
>     load. There is a tool called boot0img which fills the header
>     appropriately.
>     Reserve some space at the beginning of the binary to later hold the
>     header if needed.
>     Please note that the header is jumped over already by U-Boot anyway,
>     so filling the header is optional and can be skipped if for instance
>     boot0 is not used.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com
>     <mailto:andre.przywara at arm.com>>
>     ---
>      arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S | 3 +++
>      1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
>     diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
>     index deb44a8..b4c4867 100644
>     --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
>     +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S
>     @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
>      _start:
>             b       reset
> 
>     +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI
>     +       .space 0x5fc    /* can be filled with a boot0 header if
>     needed */
>     +#endif
> 
> 
> NAK !
> this is NOT the _only_ board that would need this, so I propose:

Well, I was thinking about this as well, but wondered why nobody has
ever come up with something like this before.

So I am happy indeed with a more generic solution.

> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_RESERVE_SPACE_BOOT0
>         .space  CONFIG_RESERVE_SPACE_BOOT0
> #endif

If you don't mind, I will put these three lines as your patch in a new
post. Feel free to send it yourself if you prefer this.
And it seems that boot0 is an Allwinner term, so maybe some more generic
naming like CONFIG_RESERVED_HEADER_SPACE or the like?

Cheers,
Andre.

>  
> Thanks, Steve
> 
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>     2.7.3
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