Re: [PATCH 0/7] arm-uboot: support for different RAM bases

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On 29.12.2013 19:47, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The current arm-uboot image type is hardcoded to run at address
> 0x08000000 which means that it cannot be used on ARM systems which do
> not have RAM starting from address 0 (which is many of them). This is a
> bit of a problem for distros.
> 
> The following series attempts to address this by only performing a
> partial link of the arm-uboot kernel.img at build time and enhancing
> grub-mkimage to finalise the link to a specific address while building
> the core.img.
> 
> I have test this on a Midway system, which has RAM at address 0, linking
> to a variety of addresses (0x{0,1,4}8000000) and on a cubieboard2 which
> has RAM at 0x40000000-0x80000000 linked at 0x48000000. (there is an
> unrelated issue on cubieboard2 relating to the scan for the uboot API
> signature, which I'm still investigating, but I hacked around it here
> and things worked fine otherwise).
> 
Is there a way to make uboot to load GRUB at some appropriate address.
We can do relocations in the startup code if needed.
> I have done build only tests of arm64-efi, i386-pc and x86_64-efi. After
> running grub-mkimage under faketime the resulting binaries are bit for
> bit identical in every case (faketime due to the timestamp in the PE
> header).
> 
> I haven't yet integrated this into grub-install, I need to think a bit
> more about how to automagically determine the correct link address for a
> given platform.
> 
> If no target address is given then the existing hardcoded address
> (0x08000000) is used as the default.
> 
> Please CC on any replies since I'm not subscribed.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 



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