[PATCH] ARM: i.MX8M: limit PBL size to 0x3f000

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Fri Oct 20 06:08:48 PDT 2023


On 20.10.23 15:03, Marco Felsch wrote:
> On 23-10-20, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> On i.MX8M(Q/M/N/P), barebox PBL is loaded 0x1000 bytes into ITCM
> 
> Nit: only the i.MX8MQ-EVK was converted. Don't know if the rest is
> broken since they don't use the pblb (PBL only).

I can't follow what you mean with "don't use the pblb (PBL only)",
but the other three 8MQ boards already have a MAX_PBL_MEMORY_SIZE,
so as far as this patch is concerned, there's nothing further to do.

> 
>> at address 0x7e00_1000. ITCM is 128K followed by 128K of DTCM.
>>
>> Therefore, in total, barebox PBL may not exceed 0x3f000. Now that we
>> have a common macro for defining boards, let's add a
>> MAX_PBL_MEMORY_SIZE_$(entrypoint) into it, so check that we don't
>> exceed this size at runtime.
>>
>> Boards that trip over this, should consider using get_builtin_firmware_ext
>> to offload binaries into barebox proper.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>
> 
>> ---
>>  images/Makefile.imx | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/images/Makefile.imx b/images/Makefile.imx
>> index 50f0a64b3091..ca09853c4b6e 100644
>> --- a/images/Makefile.imx
>> +++ b/images/Makefile.imx
>> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ $(eval
>>  ifeq ($($(strip $(1))), y)
>>  	pblb-y += $(strip $(2))
>>  	CFG_$(strip $(2)).pblb.imximg = $(board)/$(strip $(3)).imxcfg
>> +	MAX_PBL_MEMORY_SIZE_$(strip $(2)) = 0x3f000
>>  	FILE_barebox-$(strip $(4)).img    = $(strip $(2)).pblb.pimximg
>>  	FILE_barebox-$(strip $(4))-s.img  = $(strip $(2)).pblb.psimximg
>>  	image-y += barebox-$(strip $(4)).img
>> -- 
>> 2.39.2
>>
>>
>>
> 

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