[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/22] spl: Add features for passing info from SPL to U-Boot proper
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Tue Oct 9 03:40:43 UTC 2018
Hi Kever,
On 7 October 2018 at 20:30, Kever Yang <kever.yang at rock-chips.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
>
> On 09/27/2018 05:54 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > At present we have no standard way of passing information from SPL to
> > U-Boot. Such information may be the size of DRAM banks or some information
> > about the reset state of the machine,for example.
> >
> > This series first adds a bloblist, which allows a list of 'blobs' to be
> > created, each with a tag so that subsystems can store data and retrieve it
> > later. Then it adds the SPL 'handoff' information, which uses bloblist.
>
> It's great to see this patch set, because Rockchip U-Boot is also
> implementing this
> kind of feature recently, my plan was send it upstream after we run in a
> good result.
> We have some discussion in our team, and we chose ATAGs instead of a new
> format of data structure at last, fdt is another candidate, but we think
> it is too
> complicated for those TINY sram SoCs.
> The information we need to passing including:
> - DRAM size from TPL/SPL;
OK, this is supported in this series.
> - boot device from bootrom which can be read only in TPL/SPL;
That would need to be added. You could add it in
arch/arm/include/handoff.h behind an #ifdef CONFIG_ROCKCHIP guard,
perhaps?
> - DRAM reserved space in TRUST(ATF, OP-TEE), which means we need to modify;
> - other info which may help U-Boot, for example, we may able to skip
> MMC/SD init
> if we can get enough info for controller setting;
Same with the above.
I suppose we could create a new bloblist tag if needed.
Regards,
Simon
>
> Thanks,
> - Kever
> > Various minor sandbox enhancements are provided to make this easier, or to
> > support testing.
> >
> >
> > Simon Glass (22):
> > log: Correct definition of log_msg_ret()
> > spl: Add support for logging in SPL and TPL
> > Add core support for a bloblist to convey data from SPL
> > spl: Set up the bloblist in SPL
> > bloblist: Locate bloblist in U-Boot
> > test: Add a simple test for bloblist
> > Add bloblist documentation
> > spl: Support hash, input, pch, pci, rtc, tpm in SPL
> > spl: Add a define for SPL_TPL_PROMPT
> > spl: Make SPL_DISABLE_BANNER_PRINT a positive option
> > spl: Add a comment to spl_set_bd()
> > spl: Print a message if we are unable to load an image
> > sandbox: Add a memory map to the sandbox README
> > test/py: Add a way to pass flags to sandbox
> > sandbox: Add an option to display of-platdata in SPL
> > sandbox: Add a new 'sb' command
> > sandbox: Allow puts() output before global_data is set up
> > sandbox: Refactor code to create os_jump_to_file()
> > sandbox: Use malloc() and free() from os layer
> > sandbox: Filter arguments when starting U-Boot
> > sandbox: Boot in U-Boot through the standard call
> > spl: Add support for passing handoff info to U-Boot proper
> >
> > arch/Kconfig | 1 +
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/spl.h | 3 -
> > arch/sandbox/cpu/eth-raw-os.c | 9 +-
> > arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c | 115 +++++++++-----
> > arch/sandbox/cpu/spl.c | 31 +++-
> > arch/sandbox/cpu/start.c | 19 +++
> > arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 +-
> > arch/sandbox/include/asm/handoff.h | 18 +++
> > arch/sandbox/include/asm/state.h | 8 +
> > board/sandbox/README.sandbox | 14 +-
> > cmd/Makefile | 1 +
> > cmd/host.c | 5 -
> > cmd/sb.c | 65 ++++++++
> > common/Kconfig | 84 +++++++++-
> > common/Makefile | 5 +-
> > common/bloblist.c | 239 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > common/board_f.c | 47 ++++++
> > common/console.c | 7 +
> > common/init/Makefile | 1 +
> > common/init/handoff.c | 47 ++++++
> > common/spl/Kconfig | 95 +++++++++++-
> > common/spl/spl.c | 142 +++++++++++++----
> > configs/sandbox_spl_defconfig | 1 +
> > doc/README.bloblist | 82 ++++++++++
> > drivers/Makefile | 11 +-
> > include/asm-generic/global_data.h | 7 +
> > include/bloblist.h | 194 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/handoff.h | 36 +++++
> > include/log.h | 10 +-
> > include/spl.h | 41 +++++
> > include/test/suites.h | 1 +
> > test/Makefile | 1 +
> > test/bloblist.c | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > test/cmd_ut.c | 3 +
> > test/py/tests/test_handoff.py | 14 ++
> > test/py/tests/test_ofplatdata.py | 31 +++-
> > test/py/u_boot_console_base.py | 2 +-
> > test/py/u_boot_console_sandbox.py | 18 ++-
> > test/run | 2 +-
> > 39 files changed, 1497 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/include/asm/handoff.h
> > create mode 100644 cmd/sb.c
> > create mode 100644 common/bloblist.c
> > create mode 100644 common/init/handoff.c
> > create mode 100644 doc/README.bloblist
> > create mode 100644 include/bloblist.h
> > create mode 100644 include/handoff.h
> > create mode 100644 test/bloblist.c
> > create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_handoff.py
> >
>
>
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