[U-Boot] [PATCH v1] colibri_imx7: boot kernel in secure mode

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Wed Jul 24 11:32:42 UTC 2019


On 2019-07-03 15:50, Igor Opaniuk wrote:
> From: Igor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk at toradex.com>
> 
> NXP downstream kernel uses legacy method to enable other cores,
> which requires kernel to run in a security mode (althought upstream kernel
> uses PSCI for this).
> 
> As we're using NXP kernel in our BSPs, lets enable this by default.

I think I mentioned it internally, but just to be clear: I do not agree
with this patch.

Upstream U-Boot should be able to boot upstream Linux. I'd rather prefer
to carry that patch in our downstream fork (or set the bootm_boot_mode
environment in our boot script).

--
Stefan

> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Opaniuk <igor.opaniuk at toradex.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/configs/colibri_imx7.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/configs/colibri_imx7.h b/include/configs/colibri_imx7.h
> index 40173b18fa..5408577661 100644
> --- a/include/configs/colibri_imx7.h
> +++ b/include/configs/colibri_imx7.h
> @@ -164,7 +164,8 @@
>  		"${board}/flash_blk.img && source ${loadaddr}\0" \
>  	"setup=setenv setupargs " \
>  		"console=tty1 console=${console}" \
> -		",${baudrate}n8 ${memargs} consoleblank=0\0" \
> +		",${baudrate}n8 ${memargs} consoleblank=0; " \
> +		"setenv bootm_boot_mode sec\0" \
>  	"setupdate=run setsdupdate || run setusbupdate || run setethupdate\0" \
>  	"setusbupdate=usb start && setenv interface usb && " \
>  		"fatload ${interface} 0:1 ${loadaddr} " \


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