[PATCH v5 0/8] Handoff bloblist from previous boot stage

Raymond Mao raymond.mao at linaro.org
Fri Jan 12 22:33:26 CET 2024


This patch set adds/adapts a few bloblist APIs and implements Arm arch
custom function to retrieve the bloblist (aka. Transfer List) from
previous loader via boot arguments when BLOBLIST option is enabled and
all boot arguments are compliant to the register conventions defined
in the Firmware Handoff spec v0.9.

FDT library function will load the FDT from the bloblist if it exists.
Otherwise it fallbacks to get the FDT from traditional way.

If an arch wishes to have different behaviors for loading bloblist
from the previous boot stage, it is required to implement the custom
function xferlist_from_boot_arg().

V5:
Drop [PATCH v4 8/9] fdt: update the document and Kconfig description.

Raymond Mao (8):
  bloblist: add API to check the register conventions
  bloblist: check bloblist with specified buffer size
  bloblist: refactor of bloblist_reloc()
  arm: armv7: save boot arguments
  arm: armv8: save boot arguments
  arm: Get bloblist from boot arguments
  bloblist: Load the bloblist from the previous loader
  fdt: get FDT from bloblist

 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S   | 19 ++++++++
 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S   | 14 ++++++
 arch/arm/lib/Makefile        |  2 +
 arch/arm/lib/xferlist.c      | 27 ++++++++++++
 arch/arm/lib/xferlist.h      | 19 ++++++++
 common/bloblist.c            | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 common/board_f.c             |  9 ++--
 configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig |  3 ++
 include/bloblist.h           | 47 ++++++++++++++++----
 lib/fdtdec.c                 | 18 ++++----
 test/bloblist.c              |  8 ++--
 11 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/xferlist.c
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/xferlist.h

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2.25.1



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