[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 3/6] arm64: sunxi: reserve space for boot0 header
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Sun May 15 12:13:55 CEST 2016
Hi,
On 04-05-16 23:15, Andre Przywara 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>
Further down the thread you said you would do a v2 of this one,
so I'm dropping it.
Regards,
Hans
> ---
> 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
> .align 3
>
> .globl _TEXT_BASE
>
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