[patch v3] mmc, ARM: Add zboot from MMC support for SuperH Mobile ARM

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Fri Dec 24 00:12:37 EST 2010


On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:15:54PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:16:53AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > This allows a ROM-able zImage to be written to MMC and
> > for SuperH Mobile ARM to boot directly from the MMCIF
> > hardware block.
> > 
> > This is achieved by the MaskROM loading the first portion
> > of the image into MERAM and then jumping to it. This portion
> > contains loader code which copies the entire image to SDRAM
> > and jumps to it. From there the zImage boot code proceeds
> > as normal, uncompressing the image into its final location
> > and then jumping to it.
> > 
> > This patch depends on:
> > * "ARM: 6514/1: mach-shmobile: Add zboot support for SuperH Mobile ARM"
> >   which has been merged into the devel branch of Russell King's
> >   linux-2.6-arm tree.
> > * "mmc, sh: Move MMCIF_PROGRESS_* into sh_mmcif.h"
> >   which has been merged into the common/mmcif branch of
> >   Paul Mundt's sh-2.6 tree
> > * "mmc, sh: Remove sh_mmcif_boot_slurp()"
> >   which has been merged into the common/mmcif branch of
> >   Paul Mundt's sh-2.6 tree
> 
> This one at least should go through Russell's tree. The dependencies from
> my side will be sorted out early in the merge window, so you should be
> able to submit this to Russell's patch tracker after that for a late -rc1
> merge, or for -rc2. After that's done, there don't seem to be any more
> outstanding dependencies, so at that point I'll be able to take care of
> the remaining patches.

Thanks, will do. I agree that Russell's tree is appropriate for this change.



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