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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] ARM: sama5d2: Implement boot device autodetection
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 13:04:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <572885B9.3080401@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160503085211.GH6652@punisher.entwicklung.er.corscience.de>

On 05/03/2016 10:52 AM, Andreas Bie?mann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 09:56:21PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Implement support for saving ARM register R4 early during boot using
>> save_boot_params . Implement support for decoding the stored register
>> R4 value in spl_boot_device() to obtain boot device from which the
>> SoC booted. This way, the SPL will always load U-Boot from the same
>> device from which the SPL itself booted instead of using hard-coded
>> boot device.
>>
>> This functionality is useful for example when booting sama5d2-xplained
>> from SD card, where by default the SPL would try loading the U-Boot
>> from eMMC and fail. This is because eMMC is on SDHCI0 (BOOT_DEVICE_MMC1),
>> while SD slot is on SDHCI1 (BOOT_DEVICE_MMC2) and the SPL was hard-wired
>> to always boot from BOOT_DEVICE_MMC1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
>> Cc: Andreas Bie?mann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
>> Cc: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com>
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Bie?mann <andreas@biessmann.org>

I will eventually extend this to SAMA5Dx as this is quite helpful on
upcoming board.

>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-at91/Makefile               |  2 +-
>>  arch/arm/mach-at91/bootparams_atmel.S     | 18 ++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/sama5d2.h | 12 +++++++++++
>>  arch/arm/mach-at91/spl.c                  | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-at91/bootparams_atmel.S


-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-03 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-22 19:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: sama5d2: Implement boot device autodetection Marek Vasut
2016-05-03  8:52 ` [U-Boot] " Andreas Bießmann
2016-05-03 11:04   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2016-05-03 11:43     ` Andreas Bießmann
2016-05-03 11:47       ` Marek Vasut
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2016-05-03 11:38 [U-Boot] [U-Boot, 1/2] ARM: at91: sama5d2: add macro & field definitions Andreas Bießmann
2016-05-03 11:38 ` [U-Boot] ARM: sama5d2: Implement boot device autodetection Andreas Bießmann

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