[PATCH 0/2] Add support for loading images above 4GB
Michal Simek
michal.simek at xilinx.com
Thu Sep 3 14:30:16 CEST 2020
Hi,
On 03. 09. 20 13:16, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 9/3/20 1:03 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have several use cases where customers want to partition memory by
>> putting NS images above 4GB. On Xilinx arm 64bit SOC 0-2GB can be used for
>> others CPU in the systems (like R5) or for secure sw.
>> Currently there is limitation in SPL to record load/entry addresses in
>> 64bit format because they are recorded in 32bit only.
>> This series add support for it.
>> Patches have been tested on Xilinx ZynqMP zcu102 board in SD bootmode with
>> images generated by binman. Because u-boot is using
>> CONFIG_POSITION_INDEPENDENT it can be put to others 4k aligned addresses
>> and there is no real need to build it to certain offset.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michal
>
> Hello Michal,
>
> does this series require changes to doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt?
I am not changing fit format. I am just changing how SPL records
loadables in DT fit-images node. And also series is using FIT functions
for reading these properties (at least in this version).
Thanks,
Michal
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