[PATCH 01/10] Revert "ARM: uniphier: add weird workaround code for LD20"
Masahiro Yamada
masahiroy at kernel.org
Sat Jul 11 16:11:59 CEST 2020
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:09 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 45f41c134baf5ff1bbf59d33027f6c79884fa4d9.
>
> This weird workaround was the best I came up with at that time
> to boot U-Boot from TF-A.
>
> I noticed U-Boot successfully boots on LD20 (i.e. CA72 CPU) by using
> the latest TF-A.
>
> Specifically, since the following TF-A commit, U-Boot runs at EL2
> instead of EL1, and this issue went away as a side-effect.
>
> |commit f998a052fd94ea082833109f25b94ed5bfa24e8b
> |Author: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> |Date: Thu Jul 25 10:57:38 2019 +0900
> |
> | uniphier: run BL33 at EL2
> |
> | All the SoCs in 64-bit UniPhier SoC family support EL2.
> |
> | Just hard-code MODE_EL2 instead of using el_implemented() helper.
> |
> | Change-Id: I7ab48002c5205bc8c013e1b46313b57d6c431db0
> | Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>
> However, if I reverted that, this problem would come back, presumably
> because some EL1 code in U-Boot triggers this issue.
>
> Now that commit f8ddd8cbb513 ("arm64: issue ISB after updating system
> registers") fixed this issue properly, this weird workaround is no
> longer needed irrespective of the exception level at which U-Boot runs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> ---
Series, applied to u-boot-uniphier.
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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