[PATCH 0/4] mvebu: Make 2nd-stage booting possible

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Feb 27 22:59:47 PST 2017


On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 09:52:38PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> one specialty of mvebu is that it has a movable register window. Its
> base address is configured within this register range, so there is no
> way to find out the current position. The BootROM leaves this window at
> 0xd0000000, however it is beneficial to move it further to the end of
> the address range (usually 0xf1000000) to benefit from more continuous
> RAM. For this reason one of the first things that barebox does it to
> move the window accordingly. If however barebox is loaded as a second
> stage image this results in a crash as the register base address
> register is already moved.
> 
> This series implements that the called image gets the base address from
> the barebox header. It defaults to 0xd0000000 which is right for the
> (unaware) BootROM and when barebox jumps into such an image the register
> position is passed accordingly.

This makes the 2nd stage images unnecessary, right? Can you remove them
from images/Makefile.mvebu?

Sascha

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