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This patch creates a new mechanism to define the static memory layout
(primarily in SRAM) for a given board, superseding the brittle mass of
Kconfigs that we were using before. The core part is a memlayout.ld file
in the mainboard directory (although boards are expected to just include
the SoC default in most cases), which is the primary linker script for
all stages (though not rmodules for now). It uses preprocessor macros
from <memlayout.h> to form a different valid linker script for all
stages while looking like a declarative, boilerplate-free map of memory
addresses to the programmer. Linker asserts will automatically guarantee
that the defined regions cannot overlap. Stages are defined with a
maximum size that will be enforced by the linker. The file serves to
both define and document the memory layout, so that the documentation
cannot go missing or out of date.
The mechanism is implemented for all boards in the ARM, ARM64 and MIPS
architectures, and should be extended onto all systems using SRAM in the
future. The CAR/XIP environment on x86 has very different requirements
and the layout is generally not as static, so it will stay like it is
and be unaffected by this patch (save for aligning some symbol names for
consistency and sharing the new common ramstage linker script include).
BUG=None
TEST=Booted normally and in recovery mode, checked suspend/resume and
the CBMEM console on Falco, Blaze (both normal and vboot2), Pinky and
Pit. Compiled Ryu, Storm and Urara, manually compared the disassemblies
with ToT and looked for red flags.
Change-Id: Ifd2276417f2036cbe9c056f17e42f051bcd20e81
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Original-Commit-Id: f1e2028e7ebceeb2d71ff366150a37564595e614
Original-Change-Id: I005506add4e8fcdb74db6d5e6cb2d4cb1bd3cda5
Original-Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Original-Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/213370
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/9283
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner@gmx.at>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
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The bootblock and ROM stages are the only ones that are really required to be
loaded in the quite limited on chip RAM during startup. Rather than load the
whole image which requires everything to be small, load just the bootblock and
the ROM stage, allowing the rest of the image to be arbitrarily large. Loading
a minimal amount of stuff should also improve boot performance a little bit.
Change-Id: I2fede63b8d3d8f0d880e4a692ae423021f8232b6
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3421
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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Loading on an OMAP SOC requires that the first sector of the image have a
configuration header, and, when not an execute in place image, an additional
header which describes how big the image is and where it should be loaded.
This change adds some infrastructure to statically build that header using C
code, and to paste the header onto the front of coreboot.rom in a new top
level target file called MLO.
The configuration header we're using is as inert as possible, in line with
what U-Boot is doing. I think it could be used to give additional
configuration parameters to the built-in ROM on the SOC, but we don't need to
do that, and there didn't seem to be any actual documentation how to do that.
Because the header is built from C and is defined per CPU, it would be
possible to include extra settings in other CPUs if desired.
Adding a new top level build target is a bit disruptive, but should be
contained to the am335x directory and not interfere with other mainboards.
Change-Id: I06d346a4050c20963b3c7c6e8a152070bf2d145a
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3332
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
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