[U-Boot] Cortex-A72 hangs after jumping from ARM Trusted Firmware to U-Boot?

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.

When booting from ARM Trusted Firmware, U-Boot runs in EL1-NS.
The boot flow is as follows:
  BL1 -> BL2 -> BL31 -> BL33 (i.e. U-Boot)

My UniPhier LD20 SoC (primary CPU = CA72) hangs in U-Boot.
The same boot sequence works fine on a similar SoC, LD11 (primary CPU = CA53).

I do not know why.
Do you have a clue?  A CA72-specific problem (errata)?

After a while, I found a solution to make it work for CA72.

Insert the following two lines in early boot stage of U-Boot.

  mrs x0, sctlr_el1
  msr sctlr_el1, x0

The code above seems no effect because it just reads sctlr_el1 register,
then writes back the value immediately.  Surprisingly enough,
it fixes the problem.  I do not know why.

I sent the following patch for my SoC:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/760988/
I am not sure if this is good.


Anybody who has a clue?

Thanks!

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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada