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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:22:43 +0200
From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: mvebu: introduce multi image support
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>, barebox@lists.infradead.org

On 08/13/13 16:15, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> On 08/13/13 09:26, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boards/solidrun-cubox/lowlevel.c b/arch/arm/boards/solidrun-cubox/lowlevel.c
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..fdf5a7e
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boards/solidrun-cubox/lowlevel.c
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
>> [...]
>>> +ENTRY_FUNCTION(start_solidrun_cubox)(void)
>>> +{
>>> +	uint32_t fdt;
>>> +
>>> +	__barebox_arm_head();
>>> +
>>> +	arm_cpu_lowlevel_init();
>>> +
>>> +	fdt = (uint32_t)__dtb_dove_cubox_start - get_runtime_offset();
>>> +
>>> +	mvebu_barebox_entry(fdt);
>>> +}
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/lowlevel.c
>> b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/lowlevel.c
>>> index 3f64c4a..11810cc 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/lowlevel.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/lowlevel.c
>>> @@ -24,5 +24,5 @@
>>>    void __naked barebox_arm_reset_vector(void)
>>>    {
>>>    	arm_cpu_lowlevel_init();
>>> -	mvebu_barebox_entry();
>>> +	mvebu_barebox_entry(0);
>>>    }
>>
>> Sascha,
>>
>> thanks for the patch set, I'll give it a go soon.
>>
>> I understand that this is just a first step, but you are adding extra
>> lowlevel init to boards/solidrun-cubox/lowlevel.c but in the end it
>> should be part of mach-mvebu/lowlevel.c instead?
>>
>> I have a some MVEBU boards with Dove and Armada 370 available and
>> could extend the patches to have a single lowlevel init again.
>
> The board specific lowlevel init is necessary since this specifies the
> dtb to use. Otherwise there's no way to find out on which board you are
> running on.

Ok, but I could try to cook the board lowlevel init down to its bare
minimum and only set fdt address. Or have some mvebu specific
fdt_address variable that can be overwritten. The less board specific
stuff there is, the better.

Sebastian


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