[PATCH 0/6] highbank: Update to driver model

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Mon Apr 12 02:04:49 CEST 2021


The Calxeda Highbank and Midway systems have not been updated in a
while, so were gathering more and more warning messages about not being
DM compliant over time.

To avoid the support being removed, update the board to comply with
modern U-Boot standards:
- Enable OF_CONTROL, and use the DTB provided by previous firmware stages.
- Convert the XGMAC network driver over to the driver model.
- Read the actual DRAM size (as detect by the management processor) from
  the DTB and use that to populate the memory node, and U-Boot internal
  idea of DRAM.

Access to SATA drives broke with commit 66c54f1a3e46 ("scsi: Simplify
scsi_read()/_write()") before the v2020.01 release, and remains
non-functional with this series for now. Reverting that commit (and
massaging it a bit) brought it back to life. I will send a proper patch
once I wrapped my head around the SCSI/SATA/AHCI/DM-block connections.


To test this build, you can use chain-loading on an existing installation
(firmware updates in flash on those boards are not trivial):
$ mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -T standalone -C none -a 0x8000 -e 0x8000 \
  -d u-boot.bin -n U-Boot /srv/tftp/u-boot-highbank.img
=> tftpboot 0x8000 u-boot-highbank.img
=> bootm 0x8000

Cheers,
Andre

Andre Przywara (6):
  arm: highbank: Limit FDT and initrd load addresses
  arm: highbank: Enable OF_CONTROL
  net: calxedagmac: Convert to DM_ETH
  arm: highbank: Remove artificial SDRAM size
  arm: highbank: Do DRAM init from DT
  arm: highbank: Update maintainership

 arch/arm/Kconfig             |  11 +-
 board/highbank/MAINTAINERS   |   2 +-
 board/highbank/highbank.c    |  32 +++---
 configs/highbank_defconfig   |   4 +-
 drivers/net/Kconfig          |   7 ++
 drivers/net/calxedaxgmac.c   | 192 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 include/configs/highbank.h   |  13 +--
 include/netdev.h             |   1 -
 scripts/config_whitelist.txt |   1 -
 9 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)

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