Allwinner devices support SPI flash as one of the possible
bootable media type. The SPI flash chip needs to be connected
to SPI0 pins (port C) to make this work. More information is
available at:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SPI_flash
This patch adds the initial support for booting from SPI flash.
The existing SPI frameworks are not used in order to reduce the
SPL code size. Right now the SPL size grows by ~370 bytes when
CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option is enabled.
While there are no popular Allwinner devices with SPI flash at
the moment, testing can be done using a SPI flash module (it
can be bought for ~2$ on ebay) and jumper wires with the boards,
which expose relevant pins on the expansion header. The SPI flash
chips themselves are very cheap (some prices are even listed as
low as 4 cents) and should not cost much if somebody decides to
design a development board with an SPI flash chip soldered on
the PCB.
Another nice feature of the SPI flash is that it can be safely
accessed in a device-independent way (since we know that the
boot ROM is already probing these pins during the boot time).
And if, for example, Olimex boards opted to use SPI flash instead
of EEPROM, then they would have been able to have U-Boot installed
in the SPI flash now and boot the rest of the system from the SATA
hard drive. Hopefully we may see new interesting Allwinner based
development boards in the future, now that the software support
for the SPI flash is in a better shape :-)
Testing can be done by enabling the CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option
in a board defconfig, then building U-Boot and finally flashing
the resulting u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin binary over USB OTG with
a help of the sunxi-fel tool:
sunxi-fel spiflash-write 0 u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
The device needs to be switched into FEL (USB recovery) mode first.
The most suitable boards for testing are Orange Pi PC and Pine64.
Because these boards are cheap, have no built-in NAND/eMMC and
expose SPI0 pins on the Raspberry Pi compatible expansion header.
The A13-OLinuXino-Micro board also can be used.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The SPL code already knows which boot device it calls the spl_boot_mode()
on, so pass that information into the function. This allows the code of
spl_boot_mode() avoid invoking spl_boot_device() again, but it also lets
board_boot_order() correctly alter the behavior of the boot process.
The later one is important, since in certain cases, it is desired that
spl_boot_device() return value be overriden using board_boot_order().
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel@googlemail.com>
Cc: Albert Aribaud <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.org>
[add newly introduced zynq variant]
Signed-aff-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.org>
This addresses a cosmetic issue when booting a sunxi device
over USB (FEL mode), where the SPL currently would just print
"Trying to boot from ". The patch fixes that to properly read
"Trying to boot from FEL".
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
The A80 uses the AXP809 as its primary PMIC.
Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Commit bfb33f0bc4 ("sunxi: mctl_mem_matches: Add missing memory
barrier") broke compilation for the Pine64, as dram_helper.c now
includes <asm/armv7.h>, which does not compile on arm64.
Fix this by moving all barrier instructions into a separate header
file, which can easily be shared between arm and arm64.
Also extend the inline assembly to take the "sy" argument, which is
optional for ARMv7, but mandatory for v8.
This fixes compilation for 64-bit sunxi boards (Pine64).
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
We are running with the caches disabled when mctl_mem_matches gets called,
but the cpu's write buffer is still there and can still get in the way,
add a memory barrier to fix this.
This avoids mctl_mem_matches always returning false in some cases, which
was resulting in:
U-Boot SPL 2015.07 (Apr 14 2016 - 18:47:26)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
U-Boot 2015.07 (Apr 14 2016 - 18:47:26 +0200) Allwinner Technology
CPU: Allwinner A23 (SUN8I)
DRAM: 512 MiB
Where 512 MiB is the right amount, but the DRAM controller would be
initialized for 1024 MiB.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Some boards have on board usb devices which need longer than the USB
spec's 1 second to connect from board powerup. Add a config option which
when non 0 adds an extra delay before the first usb bus scan.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
The Allwinner A64 SoC is used in the Pine64. This patch adds
all bits necessary to compile U-Boot for it running in AArch64
mode.
Unfortunately SPL is not ready yet due to legal problems, so
we need to boot using the binary boot0 for now.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
[agraf: remove SPL code, move to AArch64]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Some parts of the sunxi code cast explicitly between u32 values and pointers.
This is not a problem in practice, because all 64bit SoCs today only use the
lower 32 bits for their phyical address space. But we need to make sure that
the compiler is sure this is not an accident as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Some of the code in arch/arm/cpu/armv7/sunxi is actually armv7 specific, while
most of it is just generic code that could as well be used on an AArch64 SoC.
Move all files that are not really tied to armv7 into a new mach-sunxi
directory.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Siarhei Siamashka
Marek Vasut
Bernhard Nortmann
Chen-Yu Tsai
Andre Przywara
Hans de Goede
Alexander Graf