[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 1/2] SPL: add support to boot from a partition type

Dalon Westergreen dwesterg at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 00:04:48 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-02-11 at 00:47 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 02/10/2017 11:58 PM, Dalon Westergreen wrote:
> > 
> > the socfpga bootrom supports mmc booting from either a raw image
> > starting at 0x0, or from a partition of type 0xa2.  This patch
> > adds support for locating the boot image in the first type 0xa2
> > partition found.
> > 
> > Assigned a partition number of -1 will cause a search for a
> > partition of type CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION_TYPE
> > and use it to find the u-boot image
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dalon Westergreen <dwesterg at gmail.com>
> > 
> > --
> > Changes in v8:
> >  - Move partition type default to arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> > Changes in v7:
> >  - set part type to 0xa2 only if socfpga selected
> > Changes in V6:
> >  - Remove unneeded backslash
> > Changes in V5:
> >  - fix styling in if (..) per Tom's request
> > Changes in V4:
> >  - Try search for partition type and failover to the defined
> >    partition number
> > Changes in V3:
> >  - Add depends on DOS_PARTITION
> >  - Ensure that PARTTION_TYPE defaults to non-zero
> >  - Add ifdef around sys_ind in disk_partition structure
> > Changes in V2:
> >  - Merge partition search into single partition function
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig |  3 +++
> >  common/spl/Kconfig            | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  common/spl/spl_mmc.c          | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  disk/part_dos.c               |  1 +
> >  include/part.h                |  3 +++
> >  5 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> > index df9e8d4..6fd724e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> > @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ config SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
> >  config SPL_WATCHDOG_SUPPORT
> >  	default y
> >  
> > +config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION_TYPE
> > +	default 0xa2
> > +
> >  config TARGET_SOCFPGA_ARRIA5
> >  	bool
> >  	select TARGET_SOCFPGA_GEN5
> > diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
> > index cf714c2..3cdd200 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/Kconfig
> > +++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
> > @@ -96,6 +96,22 @@ config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR
> >  	  Address on the MMC to load U-Boot from, when the MMC is being
> > used
> >  	  in raw mode. Units: MMC sectors (1 sector = 512 bytes).
> >  
> > +config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_PARTITION_TYPE
> > +	bool "MMC raw mode: by partition type"
> > +	depends on SPL && DOS_PARTITION
> > +	default y if ARCH_SOCFPGA
> 
> SoCFPGA should select this, ARCH_SOCFPGA has nothing to do in common
> stuff :)
> 
Odd, i did test it and it worked in hw

> > 
> > +	help
> > +	  Use partition type for specifying U-Boot partition on MMC/SD in
> > +	  raw mode. U-Boot will be loaded from the first partition of this
> > +	  type to be found.
> > +
> > +config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION_TYPE
> > +	hex "Partition Type on the MMC to load U-Boot from"
> > +	depends on SPL && SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_PARTITION_TYPE
> > +	help
> > +	  Partition Type on the MMC to load U-Boot from, when the MMC is
> > being
> > +	  used in raw mode.
> > +
> >  config TPL
> >  	bool
> >  	depends on SPL && SUPPORT_TPL
> > diff --git a/common/spl/spl_mmc.c b/common/spl/spl_mmc.c
> > index 0cd355c..fb51fd5 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/spl_mmc.c
> > +++ b/common/spl/spl_mmc.c
> > @@ -157,6 +157,21 @@ static int mmc_load_image_raw_partition(struct
> > spl_image_info *spl_image,
> >  	disk_partition_t info;
> >  	int err;
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_PARTITION_TYPE
> > +	int type_part;
> > +	/* Only support MBR so DOS_ENTRY_NUMBERS */
> > +	for (type_part = 1; type_part <= DOS_ENTRY_NUMBERS; type_part++) {
> > +		err = part_get_info(mmc_get_blk_desc(mmc), type_part,
> > &info);
> > +		if (err)
> > +			continue;
> > +		if (info.sys_ind == 
> > +			CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION_TYPE) {
> > +			partition = type_part;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  	err = part_get_info(mmc_get_blk_desc(mmc), partition, &info);
> >  	if (err) {
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
> > diff --git a/disk/part_dos.c b/disk/part_dos.c
> > index c77d881..7ede15e 100644
> > --- a/disk/part_dos.c
> > +++ b/disk/part_dos.c
> > @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static int part_get_info_extended(struct blk_desc
> > *dev_desc,
> >  #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(PARTITION_UUIDS)
> >  			sprintf(info->uuid, "%08x-%02x", disksig,
> > part_num);
> >  #endif
> > +			info->sys_ind = pt->sys_ind;
> >  			return 0;
> >  		}
> >  
> > diff --git a/include/part.h b/include/part.h
> > index 9d0e20d..b6d1b33 100644
> > --- a/include/part.h
> > +++ b/include/part.h
> > @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ typedef struct disk_partition {
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PARTITION_TYPE_GUID
> >  	char	type_guid[37];	/* type GUID as string, if exists
> > 	*/
> >  #endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
> > +	uchar	sys_ind;	/* partition type 			
> > */
> > +#endif
> >  } disk_partition_t;
> >  
> >  /* Misc _get_dev functions */
> > 
> 
> 


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