[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: socfpga: Convert to DM serial

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 11:01:18 UTC 2018


Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> schrieb am Fr., 3. Aug. 2018, 11:22:

> On 08/03/2018 11:10 AM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >
> >
> > Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de <mailto:marex at denx.de>> schrieb am Fr., 3.
> > Aug. 2018, 11:00:
> >
> >     On 08/03/2018 10:40 AM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On 01.08.2018 09:34, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >     >> On 08/01/2018 09:29 AM, Goldschmidt Simon wrote:
> >     >>>
> >     >>> On 30.07.2018 16:04, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >     >>>> On 07/30/2018 04:03 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >     >>>>>
> >     >>>>> On 12.05.2018 22:28, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >     >>>>>> Pull the serial port configuration from DT and use DM serial
> >     instead
> >     >>>>>> of having the serial configuration in two places, DT and board
> >     >>>>>> config.
> >     >>>>>>
> >     >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de <mailto:
> marex at denx.de>>
> >     >>>>>> Cc: Chin Liang See <chin.liang.see at intel.com
> >     <mailto:chin.liang.see at intel.com>>
> >     >>>>>> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at kernel.org
> >     <mailto:dinguyen at kernel.org>>
> >     >>>>>> ---
> >     >>>>>>     arch/arm/Kconfig                             | 3 +++
> >     >>>>>>     arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi                    | 2 ++
> >     >>>>>>     arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc.dts | 1 +
> >     >>>>>>     include/configs/socfpga_common.h             | 8 --------
> >     >>>>>>     4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >     >>>>>>
> >     >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >     >>>>>> index 532aa41a87..2012ac6410 100644
> >     >>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >     >>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> >     >>>>>> @@ -737,6 +737,7 @@ config ARCH_SOCFPGA
> >     >>>>>>         select ARCH_MISC_INIT
> >     >>>>>>         select CPU_V7A
> >     >>>>>>         select DM
> >     >>>>>> +    select DM_SERIAL
> >     >>>>>>         select ENABLE_ARM_SOC_BOOT0_HOOK
> >     >>>>>>         select OF_CONTROL
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
> >     >>>>>> @@ -746,11 +747,13 @@ config ARCH_SOCFPGA
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_NAND_SUPPORT if SPL_NAND_DENALI
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_OF_CONTROL
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
> >     >>>>>> +    select SPL_DM_SERIAL
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT if SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_SPI_SUPPORT if DM_SPI
> >     >>>>>>         select SPL_WATCHDOG_SUPPORT
> >     >>>>>>         select SUPPORT_SPL
> >     >>>>>>         select SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_PARTITION_TYPE
> >     >>>>>> +    select SYS_NS16550
> >     >>>>>>         select SYS_THUMB_BUILD
> >     >>>>>>         imply CMD_MTDPARTS
> >     >>>>>>         imply CRC32_VERIFY
> >     >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi
> >     b/arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi
> >     >>>>>> index e64127fcb2..314449478d 100644
> >     >>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi
> >     >>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/socfpga.dtsi
> >     >>>>>> @@ -737,6 +737,7 @@
> >     >>>>>>                 reg-shift = <2>;
> >     >>>>>>                 reg-io-width = <4>;
> >     >>>>>>                 clocks = <&l4_sp_clk>;
> >     >>>>>> +            clock-frequency = <100000000>;
> >     >>>>>>             };
> >     >>>>>>               uart1: serial1 at ffc03000 {
> >     >>>>>> @@ -746,6 +747,7 @@
> >     >>>>>>                 reg-shift = <2>;
> >     >>>>>>                 reg-io-width = <4>;
> >     >>>>>>                 clocks = <&l4_sp_clk>;
> >     >>>>>> +            clock-frequency = <100000000>;
> >     >>>>>>             };
> >     >>>>>>               rst: rstmgr at ffd05000 {
> >     >>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc.dts
> >     >>>>>> b/arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc.dts
> >     >>>>>> index b573d0e658..06b61cb0af 100644
> >     >>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc.dts
> >     >>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc.dts
> >     >>>>>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> >     >>>>>>     };
> >     >>>>>>       &uart1 {
> >     >>>>>> +    clock-frequency = <50000000>;
> >     >>>>>>         u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
> >     >>>>>>         status = "okay";
> >     >>>>>>     };
> >     >>>>>> diff --git a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> >     >>>>>> b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> >     >>>>>> index 54b9edc97c..a60da85499 100644
> >     >>>>>> --- a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> >     >>>>>> +++ b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
> >     >>>>>> @@ -173,14 +173,6 @@ unsigned int
> >     >>>>>> cm_get_qspi_controller_clk_hz(void);
> >     >>>>>>      * Serial Driver
> >     >>>>>>      */
> >     >>>>>>     #define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_SERIAL
> >     >>>>>> -#define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_REG_SIZE    -4
> >     >>>>>> -#if defined(CONFIG_TARGET_SOCFPGA_GEN5)
> >     >>>>>> -#define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_COM1        SOCFPGA_UART0_ADDRESS
> >     >>>>>> -#define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_CLK        100000000
> >     >>>>>> -#elif defined(CONFIG_TARGET_SOCFPGA_ARRIA10)
> >     >>>>>> -#define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_COM1        SOCFPGA_UART1_ADDRESS
> >     >>>>>> -#define CONFIG_SYS_NS16550_CLK        50000000
> >     >>>>>> -#endif
> >     >>>>>>       /*
> >     >>>>>>      * USB
> >     >>>>>>
> >     >>>>> Unfortunately I saw this just now, but it seems this breaks
> GEN5
> >     >>>>> SPL? At
> >     >>>>> least git-bisect told me that
> >     73172753f4f3351ed1c9d2f6586fc599ce4e728c
> >     >>>>> is the first bad commit.
> >     >>>>>
> >     >>>>> I tested socfpga_socrates_defconfig on my socrates board.
> >     >>>>>
> >     >>>>> Any idea what's wrong there?
> >     >>>> Nope, this should work fine. Can you investigate ?
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Ok, so after adding "u-boot,dm-pre-reloc" to uart0 in
> >     >>> socfpga_cyclone5_socrates.dts, U-Boot works (combined with an
> >     old SPL).
> >     >>
> >     >> Good!
> >     >>
> >     >>> SPL still does not work. Any idea? How does SPL get the uart?
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Thanks for any pointers.
> >     >>
> >     >> Dig around the NS16550 driver .
> >     > OK, so my DS-5 debugger shows me it's not the driver that fails but
> >     > "malloc_simple()" returns 0x0 when being called from
> >     > uclass_get_device_by_seq(). Which is strange because
> >     gd->malloc_base is
> >     > 0xffffe000.
> >
> >     malloc() returns NULL because it ran out of space ?
> >
> >
> > No, the malloc limit is not even set in gd.
> > It just somehow fails to add malloc_base. I don't get why, as it should
> > do so given the disassembly.
> >
> > The next step is then zeroing the memory from calloc() and it doesn't
> > return from there.
> >
> > I guess next I could check if malloc_simple is called at all without
> > serial DM. That would at least explain how this error is connected to
> > your commit...
>
> Maybe it's not, I recall that the SPL sometimes failed when it grew too
> large and noone explained in a satisfactory way why. Maybe the commit
> just triggers this.
>

I know. That's why I just tested with a smaller config where I disable spi
and spi-flash drivers. The SPL binary is now only 40kbyte but the error
remains the same.

I wonder if the cause might be that now malloc_simple() is called earlier
than before?


> >     > Also, gd->fdt_blob is not initialized at the time serial_init() is
> >     > called from SPL. Should it be? Because that way, we don't seem to
> have
> >     > dts control over which uart is used as console?
> >
> >
> > Can someone shed some light on this? Should the device tree be available
> > when allocating the SPL console? Because if not, it would just use the
> > first driver available, or am I wrong?
> >
> > Simon
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
>


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