[RFC 1/3] MIPS: add pre-bootloader (pbl) image support

Antony Pavlov antonynpavlov at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 10:45:01 EST 2012


Sorry for delay.

On 20 November 2012 11:59, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 04:10:37PM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
>> This patch is based on ARM pbl support and allows
>> creating a pre-bootloader binary for compressed image.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/mips/Kconfig               |    2 +
>>  arch/mips/Makefile              |   18 +++++
>>  arch/mips/boot/Makefile         |    2 +
>>  arch/mips/boot/main_entry-pbl.c |   90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/mips/boot/start-pbl.S      |  146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/mips/pbl/.gitignore        |    6 ++
>>  arch/mips/pbl/Makefile          |   40 +++++++++++
>>  arch/mips/pbl/piggy.gzip.S      |    6 ++
>>  arch/mips/pbl/piggy.lzo.S       |    6 ++
>>  arch/mips/pbl/zbarebox.lds.S    |   57 +++++++++++++++
>>  10 files changed, 373 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/boot/main_entry-pbl.c
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/boot/start-pbl.S
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/pbl/.gitignore
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/pbl/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/pbl/piggy.gzip.S
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/pbl/piggy.lzo.S
>>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/pbl/zbarebox.lds.S
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
>> index 7a1eeac..853d406 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
>> @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ config MIPS
>>       select HAS_KALLSYMS
>>       select HAVE_CONFIGURABLE_MEMORY_LAYOUT
>>       select HAVE_CONFIGURABLE_TEXT_BASE
>> +     select HAVE_PBL_IMAGE
>> +     select HAVE_IMAGE_COMPRESSION
>>       default y
>>
>>  config SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
>> index 5e40de7..819e7a3 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
>> @@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ CPPFLAGS += -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections
>>  LDFLAGS_barebox += -static --gc-sections
>>  endif
>>
>> +ifdef CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION
>> +KBUILD_BINARY := arch/mips/pbl/zbarebox.bin
>> +KBUILD_TARGET := zbarebox.bin
>> +$(KBUILD_BINARY): $(KBUILD_TARGET)
>> +else
>> +KBUILD_BINARY := barebox.bin
>> +KBUILD_TARGET := barebox.bin
>> +endif
>> +
>>  LDFLAGS_barebox += -nostdlib
>>
>>  machine-$(CONFIG_MACH_MIPS_MALTA)    := malta
>> @@ -106,3 +115,12 @@ CFLAGS += $(cflags-y)
>>  lds-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_LINKER_SCRIPT)   := arch/mips/lib/barebox.lds
>>
>>  CLEAN_FILES    += arch/mips/lib/barebox.lds barebox.map barebox.S
>> +
>> +pbl := arch/mips/pbl
>> +zbarebox.S zbarebox.bin zbarebox: barebox.bin
>> +     $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(pbl) $(pbl)/$@
>> +
>> +archclean:
>> +     $(MAKE) $(clean)=$(pbl)
>> +
>> +KBUILD_IMAGE ?= $(KBUILD_BINARY)
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/Makefile b/arch/mips/boot/Makefile
>> index d6d28ce..6b093f1 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/boot/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/Makefile
>> @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
>>  obj-y += start.o
>>  obj-y += main_entry.o
>> +
>> +pbl-y += start-pbl.o main_entry-pbl.o
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/main_entry-pbl.c b/arch/mips/boot/main_entry-pbl.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..51b9176
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/main_entry-pbl.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (C) 2012 Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
>> + *
>> + * This file is part of barebox.
>> + * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this project.
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
>> + * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <common.h>
>> +#include <init.h>
>> +#include <sizes.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>> +#include <asm/sections.h>
>> +#include <asm-generic/memory_layout.h>
>> +#include <debug_ll.h>
>> +
>> +extern void *input_data;
>> +extern void *input_data_end;
>> +
>> +unsigned long free_mem_ptr;
>> +unsigned long free_mem_end_ptr;
>> +
>> +#define STATIC static
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_LZO
>> +#include "../../../lib/decompress_unlzo.c"
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMAGE_COMPRESSION_GZIP
>> +#include "../../../lib/decompress_inflate.c"
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +void pbl_main_entry(void);
>> +
>> +static unsigned long *ttb;
>> +
>> +static noinline void errorfn(char *error)
>> +{
>> +     PUTS_LL(error);
>> +     PUTC_LL('\n');
>> +
>> +     unreachable();
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void barebox_uncompress(void *compressed_start, unsigned int len)
>> +{
>> +     /* set 128 KiB at the end of the MALLOC_BASE for early malloc */
>> +     free_mem_ptr = MALLOC_BASE + MALLOC_SIZE - SZ_128K;
>> +     free_mem_end_ptr = free_mem_ptr + SZ_128K;
>> +
>> +     ttb = (void *)((free_mem_ptr - 0x4000) & ~0x3fff);
>> +
>> +     decompress((void *)compressed_start,
>> +                     len,
>> +                     NULL, NULL,
>> +                     (void *)TEXT_BASE, NULL, errorfn);
>> +
>> +     /* FIXME: just now we have no MIPS cache support */
>> +     /* flush_icache(); */
>> +}
>> +
>> +void __section(.text_entry) pbl_main_entry(void)
>> +{
>> +     u32 pg_start, pg_end, pg_len;
>> +     void (*barebox)(void);
>> +
>> +     PUTS_LL("pbl_main_entry()\n");
>> +
>> +     /* clear bss */
>> +     memset(__bss_start, 0, __bss_stop - __bss_start);
>> +
>> +     pg_start = (u32)&input_data;
>> +     pg_end = (u32)&input_data_end;
>> +     pg_len = pg_end - pg_start;
>> +
>> +     barebox_uncompress(&input_data, pg_len);
>> +
>> +     barebox = (void *)TEXT_BASE;
>> +     barebox();
>> +}
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/start-pbl.S b/arch/mips/boot/start-pbl.S
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..ad39f42
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/start-pbl.S
>> @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Startup Code for MIPS CPU
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
>> + * ADR macro copyrighted (C) 2009 by Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay at pobox.com>
>> + *
>> + * This file is part of barebox.
>> + * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this project.
>> + *
>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
>> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>> + *
>> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> + *
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <asm/regdef.h>
>> +#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
>> +#include <asm/asm.h>
>> +#include <asm-generic/memory_layout.h>
>> +#include <generated/compile.h>
>> +#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
>> +
>> +//#include <mach/kernel-entry-init.h>
>> +
>> +     /*
>> +      * ADR macro instruction (inspired by ARM)
>> +      *
>> +      * ARM architecture doesn't have PC-relative jump instruction
>> +      * like MIPS' B/BAL insns. When ARM makes PC-relative jumps,
>> +      * it uses ADR insn. ADR is used to get a destination address
>> +      * of 'label' against current PC. With this, ARM can safely
>> +      * make PC-relative jumps.
>> +      */
>> +     .macro  ADR rd label temp
>> +     .set    push
>> +     .set    noreorder
>> +     move    \temp, ra                       # preserve ra beforehand
>> +     bal     _pc
>> +      nop
>
> This file contains some whitespace damages you could cleanup along the
> way.

If you are about this fragment
>> +     bal     _pc
>> +      nop

then there is no whitespace damage --- the 'nop' instruction is in the
delay slot of the branch instruction (bal).

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov



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