[U-Boot] [PATCH v1 0/4] arm: socfgpa: support of-platdata

[Simon Goldschmidt]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:59 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 1/7/19 10:14 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> > This is an initial attempt to support OF_PLATDATA for socfpga gen5.
> >
> > There are two motivations for this:
> > a) reduce code size to eventually support secure boot (where SPL has to
> >    authenticate the next stage by loading/checking U-Boot from a FIT
> >    image)
> > b) to support the cyclone 5 boot ROM's CRC check on the SPL in SRAM
> >    (on warm-restart), all bytes to check need to be in one piece. With
> >    OF_SEPARATE, this is not the case (.bss is between .rodata and the
> >    DTB). Since OF_EMBEDDED has been discouraged, OF_PLATDATA seems to
> >    be a good solution.
>
> I'd much prefer parsing the DT (and thus, decoupling the SW from HW)
> than having some ad-hoc plat data again if we can avoid that.

So you're against the whole OF_PLATDATA thing or how should I understand
that?

It's not really ad-hoc, it's the DT converted to C structs. It's just in another
format, but it's still (sort of) decoupled SW from HW.

As written above, I have two goals I want to achieve with this. Right now, I
cannot enable verified boot in SPL because the available OCRAM cannot
hold all the code. And it seemed to me OF_PLATDATA could help me there.

Regards,
Simon