[PATCH v2 0/5] rpi: Tidy up booting

[Simon Glass]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 16:06, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 18:20, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> This series allows rpi to boot a compressed Ubuntu kernel with ~100MB
>> ramdisk, by expanding the available space.
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> What version of the RPi hardware have you tested this on?

Only rpi_4 and rpi_5

The U-Boot change itself is tested on rpi_0 and rpi_2 but not actually
booting a kernel[1]. I don't seem to have an rpi_1 in my lab.

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>> It also tidies up some strange behaviour with the provided FDT, where a
>> separate pointer is maintained to it, even though U-Boot has copied it
>> and placed it in its own space. This avoids strange bugs where it
>> accidentally gets overwritten when loading a file into memory.
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>> The patch to expand the devicetree was dropped, meaning that people
>> should be careful to unset fdt_addr in the environment.
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>> Changes in v2:
>> - Add new patch to make myself an rpi maintainer
>> - Add new patch to set bootm_size
>> - Add new patch to drop fdt_high and initrd_high
>> - Drop patch to allow expanding the devicetree during relocation
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>> Simon Glass (5):
>>   rpi: Add myself to the list of maintainers
>>   rpi: Set bootm_size to 512MB
>>   rpi: Drop fdt_high and initrd_high
>>   rpi: Update environment to support booti and large initrd
>>   rpi: Use the U-Boot control FDT for fdt_addr
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>>  MAINTAINERS                   |  1 +
>>  board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.c   | 20 ++++++++------------
>>  board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
>>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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>> --
>> 2.34.1
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[1] https://ci.u-boot.org/u-boot/u-boot/-/pipelines/82