my IXP4xx-related and other patches

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:30:03PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been working a bit on IXP4xx support lately and it seems I'm at the
> point I can now boot Barebox on a Goramo Multilink routers
> (IXP425-based). It requires several patches (will post them shortly) and
> NPE microcode files from Intel (or from elsewhere, the regular non-VLAN
> microcode v. 2.4 is needed, i.e., same as with Linux).

Nice ;)

I applied all patches except the malloc patch and the ixp4xx core patch
which need minor fixups.

> 
> The binary microcode must be appended to Barebox at correct offsets for
> the NPE driver to find it, details are in board support file
> (arch/arm/boards/multilink/multilink.c):
> 
> #define BAREBOX_START        0x00000
> #define BAREBOX_LENGTH       0x34000
> #define NPE_A_START          (BAREBOX_START + BAREBOX_LENGTH)
> #define NPE_A_LENGTH         0x05000
> #define NPE_B_START          (NPE_A_START + NPE_A_LENGTH)
> #define NPE_B_LENGTH         0x03000
> #define NPE_C_START          (NPE_B_START + NPE_B_LENGTH)
> #define NPE_C_LENGTH         0x04000
> #define NPE_ENV0_START       (NPE_C_START + NPE_C_LENGTH)
> #define NPE_ENV0_LENGTH      0x20000
> 
> when passed to Linux:
> Creating XXX MTD partitions on "IXP4XX-Flash.0":
> 0x000000000000-0x000000034000 : "barebox"
> 0x000000034000-0x000000039000 : "NPE-A"
> 0x000000039000-0x00000003c000 : "NPE-B"
> 0x00000003c000-0x000000040000 : "NPE-C"
> 0x000000040000-0x000000060000 : "env0"

As said in the comment to patch, we need to at least document this.

> 
> User-available flash area starts at 0x60000.
> 
> All this IXP4xx code is big-endian only. Too much work with LE (NPE
> coprocessors would need buffer byte swapping, flash (EXP bus) would need
> 16-bit word swapping etc). Big-endian Barebox can load both LE and BE
> Linux anyway ("bootz" only at the moment).

Yes, big endian is enough for now. It's good to have a big endian ARM
machine in the tree.

Sascha

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