[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: bootm.c: add support for 'prep' and 'go' subcommands

[Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>]

2013.01.07. 18:15 keltez?ssel, Daniel Schwierzeck ?rta:
> 2013/1/7 Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>:
>> The bootm command supports subcommands since long time
>> however those subcommands are not yet usable on MIPS.
>>
>> The patch is based on the ARM implementation, and it adds
>> support for the 'prep' and 'go' subcommands only.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
>> Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/mips/lib/bootm.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> thanks but how did you test it?

I have tested it with the following commands:

U-Boot> setenv serverip 192.168.1.254; setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.1
U-Boot> tftp 0xa0800000 openwrt-ath79-uImage-initramfs-lzma.bin
dup 1 speed 100
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.254; our IP address is 192.168.1.1
Filename 'openwrt-ath79-uImage-initramfs-lzma.bin'.
Load address: 0xa0800000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ###########################################################
done
Bytes transferred = 2627082 (28160a hex)
U-Boot> bootm loados
Trying to execute a command out of order
bootm - boot application image from memory

U-Boot> bootm start 0xa0800000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at a0800000 ...
   Image Name:   MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.8-rc2
   Created:      2013-01-07  19:19:26 UTC
   Image Type:   MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
   Data Size:    2627018 Bytes = 2.5 MiB
   Load Address: 80100000
   Entry Point:  80100000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
U-Boot> bootm loados
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
U-Boot> bootm prep
U-Boot> bootm go

Starting kernel ...

Linux version 3.8.0-rc2 (juhosg at mag2) (gcc version 4.6.4 20121106 (prerelease)
(Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.11) ) #24 Mon Jan 7 20:19:20 CET 2013
bootconsole [early0] enabled
CPU revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
...

> I needed to fix a relocation problem in cmd_bootm.c [1] to make it
> properly working.

Hm, I think that I know why I did not notice that. I have tested it on a board
which uses an old U-Boot version as the primary bootloader. Because lots of
features are disabled in that I have compiled a more usable version and I'm
using that as a 2nd stage loader.  It is loaded to address 0x80060000 by the
original bootloader. The Linux kernel uncompressed to 0x80100000 so it did not
clobber the strings.

> I have queued all three patches at u-boot-mips/testing for now. I will
> merge them when my patch is in mainline.

Thanks!

-Gabor