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@ -2,23 +2,31 @@ U-Boot for arm64 |
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Summary |
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No hardware platform of arm64 is available now. The U-Boot is |
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simulated on Foundation Model and Fast Model for ARMv8. |
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The initial arm64 U-Boot port was developed before hardware was available, |
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so the first supported platforms were the Foundation and Fast Model for ARMv8. |
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These days U-Boot runs on a variety of 64-bit capable ARM hardware, from |
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embedded development boards to servers. |
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Notes |
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1. Currenly, U-Boot run at the highest exception level processor |
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supported and jump to EL2 or optionally EL1 before enter OS. |
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1. U-Boot can run at any exception level it is entered in, it is |
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recommened to enter it in EL3 if U-Boot takes some responsibilities of a |
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classical firmware (like initial hardware setup, CPU errata workarounds |
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or SMP bringup). U-Boot can be entered in EL2 when its main purpose is |
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that of a boot loader. It can drop to lower exception levels before |
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entering the OS. |
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2. U-Boot for arm64 is compiled with AArch64-gcc. AArch64-gcc |
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use rela relocation format, a tool(tools/relocate-rela) by Scott Wood |
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is used to encode the initial addend of rela to u-boot.bin. After running, |
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the U-Boot will be relocated to destination again. |
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3. Fdt should be placed at a 2-megabyte boundary and within the first 512 |
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megabytes from the start of the kernel image. So, fdt_high should be |
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defined specially. |
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3. Earlier Linux kernel versions required the FDT to be placed at a |
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2 MB boundary and within the same 512 MB section as the kernel image, |
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resulting in fdt_high to be defined specially. |
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Since kernel version 4.2 Linux is more relaxed about the DT location, so it |
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can be placed anywhere in memory. |
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Please reference linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt for detail. |
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4. Spin-table is used to wake up secondary processors. One location |
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@ -37,9 +45,8 @@ Notes |
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aarch32 specific codes. |
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Contributor |
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Contributors |
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Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> |
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Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> |
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York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> |
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