[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] riscv: qemu-riscv.h: define CONFIG_PREBOOT (enables extlinux)

Auer, Lukas lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de
Thu Apr 11 12:41:23 UTC 2019


+ Bin

On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 12:42 +0200, David Abdurachmanov wrote:
> - Set fdt_addr variable, which is needed for extlinux to find FDT.
>   Otherwise booting kernel using extlinux results in missing FDT.
> 
> - Also run fdt addr with FDT address so that fdt commands would
>   work out of the box in U-Boot prompt.

While often useful to have, the fdt command is not used during a normal
boot. I think we should avoid calling commands, which are not normally
needed. Can you remove this from your patch?

Thanks,
Lukas

> 
> This is successfully used by Fedora/RISCV with 5.1-rc3+ kernel using
> OpenSBI -> U-Boot (S-mode) [extlinux] -> Kernel setup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov at gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/configs/qemu-riscv.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/qemu-riscv.h b/include/configs/qemu-riscv.h
> index 22a5cd7365..b7110edebc 100644
> --- a/include/configs/qemu-riscv.h
> +++ b/include/configs/qemu-riscv.h
> @@ -48,4 +48,8 @@
>  	"ramdisk_addr_r=0x88300000\0" \
>  	BOOTENV
>  
> +#define CONFIG_PREBOOT \
> +	"setenv fdt_addr ${fdtcontroladdr};" \
> +	"fdt addr ${fdtcontroladdr};"
> +
>  #endif /* __CONFIG_H */


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