[U-Boot] [PATCHv2 02/20] arm: socfpga: spl: Add SRAM section

Dinh Nguyen
2015-03-09T21:40:57Z

On 3/5/15 2:59 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 04, 2015 at 10:34:30 PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>> On 03/04/2015 01:39 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, March 04, 2015 at 07:52:04 PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2015 06:39 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, March 02, 2015 at 05:27:50 PM,
>>>>> dinguyen at opensource.altera.com
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add a section of SRAM to the SPL linker file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@opensource.altera.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> Can we not use the generic SPL stuff ( ./arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds )
>>>>> here instead please ?
>>>>
>>>> I looked at this, but I didn't see way to overlay in an SRAM section. Do
>>>> you have an example of how to do this?
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Is it really needed at all in the first place ? Why ?
>>
>> Isn't this need to specify the SPL to be located in the sram section? I
>> see other platforms doing the same thing, ie. zynq, sunxi.
>
> CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE is what specifies the address to which the SPL is linked.
> This is the address where the BootROM should place the SPL and jump to it's
> first instruction.
>
> I don't think you explicitly need to hack linker scripts to add this section.

Ah yes, I think I can make use of it now.

>
> btw. Tom Rini has a different email address (@konsulko) now.

Right...saw it right after I sent out this series.

>
> btw2. is there any way I can help you with hacking on the SPL please ?
>

Let me post a v3 within this week, and I would appreciate any help. Does
posting the series to git repo help you to help me?

Dinh