[U-Boot] [U-Boot,V2] spl: Weed out CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE usage

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Sep 26 12:42:46 UTC 2018


On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:27:02AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

> The SPL loaders assume that the CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE memory location
> is available and can be corrupted by loading ie. uImage or fitImage
> headers there. Sometimes it could be beneficial to load the headers
> elsewhere, ie. if CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE is not yet writable while we
> still want to parse the image headers in some local onchip memory to
> ie. extract firmware from that image.
> 
> Add the possibility to override the location where the headers get
> loaded by introducing new function, spl_get_load_buffer() which takes
> two arguments -- offset from the CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and size of the
> data that are to be loaded there -- and returns a valid buffer address
> or hangs the system. The default behavior is the same as before, add
> the offset to CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and return that address. User can
> override the weak spl_get_load_buffer() function though.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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