[PATCH v2 1/7] arm: juno: Fix Juno address variables

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Tue Apr 7 13:12:30 CEST 2020


The U-Boot documentation explains that variables ending with "_r" hold
addresses in DRAM, while those without that ending point to flash/ROM.
The default variables for the Juno board pointing to the kernel and DTB
load addresses were not complying with this scheme: they lack the
extension, but point to DRAM. This is particularly confusing since the
Juno board features parallel NOR flash, so there *is* a memory mapped
NOR address holding a DTB, for instance.

Fix the variables to use the proper names, changing initrd_addr to
ramdisk_addr_r on the way, which seems to be more prevelant and
documented. On the way adjust the FDT load address to be situated
*before* the kernel, since users happened to overwrite the DTB by the
kernel clearing its .BSS section during initialisation.
Also remove the fdt_high and initrd_high variables (which were set
to -1), to allow U-Boot moving those images around.

This should avoid many problems in the future, but breaks loading
Linux kernels < v4.2, since they expect the DTB to be loaded in the same
512MB region as the kernel. If you need to load such an old kernel,
please set fdt_high to either 0xffffffffffffffff or 0xa0000000 (if you
load the kernel to the beginning of DRAM).

That fixes loading debug kernels, which happened to overwrite the DTB on
certain setups.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
---
 include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h b/include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h
index 9a9cec414c..fe929f9d5b 100644
--- a/include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h
+++ b/include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h
@@ -138,35 +138,33 @@
 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS	\
 				"kernel_name=norkern\0"	\
 				"kernel_alt_name=Image\0"	\
-				"kernel_addr=0x80080000\0" \
-				"initrd_name=ramdisk.img\0"	\
-				"initrd_addr=0x84000000\0"	\
+				"kernel_addr_r=0x80080000\0" \
+				"ramdisk_name=ramdisk.img\0"	\
+				"ramdisk_addr_r=0x88000000\0"	\
 				"fdtfile=board.dtb\0" \
 				"fdt_alt_name=juno\0" \
-				"fdt_addr=0x83000000\0" \
-				"fdt_high=0xffffffffffffffff\0" \
-				"initrd_high=0xffffffffffffffff\0" \
+				"fdt_addr_r=0x80000000\0" \
 
 /* Copy the kernel and FDT to DRAM memory and boot */
-#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND	"afs load ${kernel_name} ${kernel_addr} ; " \
+#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND	"afs load ${kernel_name} ${kernel_addr_r} ;"\
 				"if test $? -eq 1; then "\
 				"  echo Loading ${kernel_alt_name} instead of "\
 				"${kernel_name}; "\
-				"  afs load ${kernel_alt_name} ${kernel_addr};"\
+				"  afs load ${kernel_alt_name} ${kernel_addr_r};"\
 				"fi ; "\
-				"afs load  ${fdtfile} ${fdt_addr} ; " \
+				"afs load ${fdtfile} ${fdt_addr_r} ;"\
 				"if test $? -eq 1; then "\
 				"  echo Loading ${fdt_alt_name} instead of "\
 				"${fdtfile}; "\
-				"  afs load ${fdt_alt_name} ${fdt_addr}; "\
+				"  afs load ${fdt_alt_name} ${fdt_addr_r}; "\
 				"fi ; "\
-				"fdt addr ${fdt_addr}; fdt resize; " \
-				"if afs load  ${initrd_name} ${initrd_addr} ; "\
+				"fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; fdt resize; " \
+				"if afs load  ${ramdisk_name} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ; "\
 				"then "\
-				"  setenv initrd_param ${initrd_addr}; "\
-				"  else setenv initrd_param -; "\
+				"  setenv ramdisk_param ${ramdisk_addr_r}; "\
+				"  else setenv ramdisk_param -; "\
 				"fi ; " \
-				"booti ${kernel_addr} ${initrd_param} ${fdt_addr}"
+				"booti ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_param} ${fdt_addr_r}"
 
 
 #elif CONFIG_TARGET_VEXPRESS64_BASE_FVP
-- 
2.14.5



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