From: Patrick Wildt <patrick@blueri.se>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] spl: fit: Minimally parse OS properties with FIT_IMAGE_TINY
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 11:47:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200508094731.GA80498@ryzen.blueri.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200507232035.31892-1-samuel@sholland.org>
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:20:33PM -0500, Samuel Holland wrote:
> Some boards, specifically 64-bit Allwinner boards (sun50i), are
> extremely limited on SPL size. One strategy that was used to make space
> was to remove the FIT "os" property parsing code, because it uses a
> rather large lookup table.
>
> However, this forces the legacy FIT parsing code path, which requires
> the "firmware" entry in the FIT to reference the U-Boot binary, even if
> U-Boot is not the next binary in the boot sequence (for example, on
> sun50i boards, ATF is run first).
>
> This prevents the same FIT image from being used with a SPL with
> CONFIG_SPL_FIT_IMAGE_TINY=n and CONFIG_SPL_ATF=y, because the boot
> method selection code looks at `spl_image.os`, which is only set from
> the "firmware" entry's "os" property.
>
> To be able to use CONFIG_SPL_ATF=y, the "firmware" entry in the FIT
> must be ATF, and U-Boot must be a loadable. For this to work, we need to
> parse the "os" property just enough to tell U-Boot from other images, so
> we can find it in the loadables list to append the FDT, and so we don't
> try to append the FDT to ATF (which could clobber adjacent firmware).
>
> So add the minimal code necessary to distinguish U-Boot/non-U-Boot
> loadables with CONFIG_SPL_FIT_IMAGE_TINY=y. This adds about 300 bytes,
> much less than the 7400 bytes added by CONFIG_SPL_FIT_IMAGE_TINY=n.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Acked-by: Patrick Wildt <patrick@blueri.se>
> ---
> common/spl/Kconfig | 4 +---
> common/spl/spl_fit.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
> index 9feadb5e43..f2fa12354d 100644
> --- a/common/spl/Kconfig
> +++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
> @@ -448,9 +448,7 @@ config SPL_FIT_IMAGE_TINY
> Enable this to reduce the size of the FIT image loading code
> in SPL, if space for the SPL binary is very tight.
>
> - This removes the detection of image types (which forces the
> - first image to be treated as having a U-Boot style calling
> - convention) and skips the recording of each loaded payload
> + This skips the recording of each loaded payload
> (i.e. loadable) into the FDT (modifying the loaded FDT to
> ensure this information is available to the next image
> invoked).
> diff --git a/common/spl/spl_fit.c b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> index c51e4beb1c..b9dd4211aa 100644
> --- a/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> +++ b/common/spl/spl_fit.c
> @@ -464,7 +464,22 @@ static int spl_fit_record_loadable(const void *fit, int images, int index,
> static int spl_fit_image_get_os(const void *fit, int noffset, uint8_t *os)
> {
> #if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(FIT_IMAGE_TINY) && !defined(CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT)
> - return -ENOTSUPP;
> + const char *name = fdt_getprop(fit, noffset, FIT_OS_PROP, NULL);
> +
> + if (!name)
> + return -ENOENT;
> +
> + /*
> + * We don't care what the type of the image actually is,
> + * only whether or not it is U-Boot. This saves some
> + * space by omitting the large table of OS types.
> + */
> + if (!strcmp(name, "u-boot"))
> + *os = IH_OS_U_BOOT;
> + else
> + *os = IH_OS_INVALID;
> +
> + return 0;
> #else
> return fit_image_get_os(fit, noffset, os);
> #endif
> --
> 2.24.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-07 23:20 [PATCH 1/3] spl: fit: Minimally parse OS properties with FIT_IMAGE_TINY Samuel Holland
2020-05-07 23:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] mksunxi_fit_atf.sh: Update FIT component descriptions Samuel Holland
2020-05-08 9:45 ` Patrick Wildt
2020-05-09 19:02 ` Samuel Holland
2020-05-09 19:09 ` Patrick Wildt
2020-05-07 23:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] sunxi: Add support for including SCP firmware Samuel Holland
2020-05-08 9:47 ` Patrick Wildt [this message]
2020-06-01 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] spl: fit: Minimally parse OS properties with FIT_IMAGE_TINY Jagan Teki
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