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Masahiro Yamada
bb6b142fc1 treewide: move CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT to Kconfig
We need to ensure that CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT is configured via Kconfig so
that it is always available to the build system.  Otherwise we can run
into cases where we have inconsistent sizes of certain attributes.

Ravi Babu reported offset mismatch of struct dwc3 across files since
commit 95ebc253e6 ("types.h: move and redefine resource_size_t").
Since the commit, resource_addr_t points to phys_addr_t, whose size
is dependent on CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT for ARM architecture.

I tried my best to use "select" where possible (for example, ARMv8
architecture) because I think this kind of option is generally user-
unconfigurable.  However, I see some of PowerPC boards have 36BIT
defconfigs as well as 32BIT ones.  I moved CONFIG_PHYS_64BIT to the
defconfigs for such boards.

CONFIG_36BIT is no longer referenced, so all of the defines were
removed from CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS.

Fixes: 95ebc253e6 ("types.h: move and redefine resource_size_t")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reported-by: Ravi Babu <ravibabu@ti.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-08-05 07:27:25 -04:00
Tom Rini
a78cd86132 ARM: Rework and correct barrier definitions
As part of testing booting Linux kernels on Rockchip devices, it was
discovered by Ziyuan Xu and Sandy Patterson that we had multiple and for
some cases incomplete isb definitions.  This was causing a failure to
boot of the Linux kernel.

In order to solve this problem as well as cover any corner cases that we
may also have had a number of changes are made in order to consolidate
things.  First, <asm/barriers.h> now becomes the source of isb/dsb/dmb
definitions.  This however introduces another complexity.  Due to
needing to build SPL for 32bit tegra with -march=armv4 we need to borrow
the __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ logic from the Linux Kernel in a more complete
form.  Move this from arch/arm/lib/Makefile to arch/arm/Makefile and add
a comment about it.  Now that we can always know what the target CPU is
capable off we can get always do the correct thing for the barrier.  The
final part of this is that need to be consistent everywhere and call
isb()/dsb()/dmb() and NOT call ISB/DSB/DMB in some cases and the
function names in others.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ziyuan Xu <xzy.xu@rock-chips.com>
Acked-by: Sandy Patterson <apatterson@sightlogix.com>
Reported-by: Ziyuan Xu <xzy.xu@rock-chips.com>
Reported-by: Sandy Patterson <apatterson@sightlogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-08-05 07:23:57 -04:00
Hou Zhiqiang
2c77416544 arm/PSCI: Fixed the backward compatiblity issue
Appended the compatible strings of old version PSCI to the latest
version supported. And there are some psci functions' property must
be added to DT only for psci version 0.1, including cpu_on, cpu_off,
cpu_suspend, migrate.

Note, ARMv8 Secure Firmware Framework doesn't support PSCI ver 0.1.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-08-02 09:47:49 -07:00
Tom Rini
9c7a0a600b Merge git://git.denx.de/u-boot-fsl-qoriq 2016-07-26 17:34:28 -04:00
Hongbo Zhang
3288628a8d ARMv7: PSCI: ls102xa: move secure text section into OCRAM
LS1021 offers two secure OCRAM blocks for trustzone.
This patch moves all the secure text sections into the OCRAM.

Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:03:00 -07:00
Hongbo Zhang
aeb901f2a6 ARMv7: PSCI: ls102xa: add more PSCI v1.0 functions implemention
This patch implements PSCI functions for ls102xa SoC following PSCI v1.0,
they are as the list:
    psci_version,
    psci_features,
    psci_cpu_suspend,
    psci_affinity_info,
    psci_system_reset,
    psci_system_off.

Tested on LS1021aQDS, LS1021aTWR.

Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:49 -07:00
Hongbo Zhang
7e742c276d ARMv7: PSCI: ls102xa: check target CPU ID before further operations
The input parameter CPU ID needs to be validated before furher oprations such
as CPU_ON, this patch introduces the function to do this.

Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:44 -07:00
Hongbo Zhang
116339d460 ARMv7: PSCI: add PSCI v1.0 functions skeleton
This patch adds all the PSCI v1.0 functions in to the common framework, with
all the functions returning "not implemented" by default, as a common framework
all the dummy functions are added here, it is up to every platform developer to
decide which version of PSCI and which functions to implement.

Signed-off-by: Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:39 -07:00
Mingkai Hu
b528b9377d armv8: fsl_lsch2: Add LS1046A SoC support
The LS1046A processor is built on the QorIQ LS series architecture
combining four ARM A72 processor cores with DPAA 1.0 support.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mihai Bantea <mihai.bantea@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Gong Qianyu <Qianyu.Gong@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:23 -07:00
Qianyu Gong
da4d620c90 armv8: fsl_lsch2: Add SerDes 2 support
New SoC LS1046A belongs to Freescale Chassis Generation 2 and
has two SerDes so we need to add this support in fsl_lsch2.
The SoC related SerDes 2 support will be added in SoC patch.

Signed-off-by: Gong Qianyu <Qianyu.Gong@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:16 -07:00
Qianyu Gong
86336e60c5 armv8: fsl-layerscape: Consolidate the LSCH2 common defines
Both LS1012A and LS1043A belong to FSL_LSCH2 and share some common
configurations. So put the common define under FSL_LSCH2 to increase
readability.

Signed-off-by: Gong Qianyu <Qianyu.Gong@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:09 -07:00
Alison Wang
79119a4d19 armv8: fsl-layerscape: Add A72 core detection
Add support to detect Cortex-A72 core for printing it out.
The Initiator Version of A72 core should be 0x4.

Signed-off-by: Alison Wang <alison.wang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Gong Qianyu <Qianyu.Gong@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:02:00 -07:00
Sumit Garg
69d4b48c84 SECURE_BOOT: Enable SD as a source for bootscript
Add support for reading bootscript and bootscript header from SD. Also
renamed macros *_FLASH to *_DEVICE to represent SD alongwith NAND and
NOR flash.

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Bansal <aneesh.bansal@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:01:43 -07:00
Sumit Garg
028ac8c733 SECURE_BOOT: Enable chain of trust in SPL framework
Override jump_to_image_no_args function to include validation of
u-boot image using spl_validate_uboot before jumping to u-boot image.
Also define macros in SPL framework to enable crypto operations.

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Bansal <aneesh.bansal@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:01:35 -07:00
Rajesh Bhagat
9729dc9565 include: usb: Rename USB controller base address mapping
Remove Soc specific defines and use generic chasis specific defines
for USB controller base address mapping.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Bhagat <rajesh.bhagat@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-26 09:01:04 -07:00
Tom Rini
c3c9fd31ba Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-i2c 2016-07-26 08:29:30 -04:00
Mugunthan V N
7fb825f5b1 omap5/dra7: i2c: correct register offset for sync register
The register offset of i2c_sysc offset is not correct as per
omap5[1]/dra7[2] TRM, correct the offsets as per the
documentation.

[1] - http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/swpu249
[2] - http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruhz6

Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-07-26 08:39:23 +02:00
Mugunthan V N
3465f807d4 omap4: i2c: correct register offset for sync register
The register offset of i2c_sysc offset is not correct as per
omap4 TRM [1], correct the offsets as per the documentation.

[1] - http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/swpu235ab/swpu235ab.pdf

Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-07-26 08:39:10 +02:00
Simon Glass
a617c5d3e2 rockchip: Add a way to obtain the main clock device
On Rockchip SoCs we typically have a main clock device that uses the Soc
clock driver. There is also a fixed clock for the oscillator. Add a function
to obtain the core clock.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-07-25 20:46:45 -06:00
Heiko Stübner
b339b5dbca cosmetic: rockchip: rk3288: rename rkclk_configure_cpu
The function is very specific to the rk3288 in its arguments
referencing the rk3288 cru and grf and every other rockchip soc
has differing cru and grf registers. So make that function naming
explicit.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-07-25 20:44:20 -06:00
Boris Brezillon
8df375b445 sunxi: Add missing macros to configure the NAND controller clk
We need some macros to manipulate the NAND controller clock.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-24 20:36:28 -05:00
Ladislav Michl
22d6ac490e armv7: armv7: introduce set_gpmc_cs0
Allow boards to runtime detect flash type.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
2016-07-22 14:46:11 -04:00
Ladislav Michl
0568dd0663 armv7: make gpmc_cfg const
Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
[trini: Adapt am33xx, duovero, omap_zoom1]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-07-22 14:46:00 -04:00
Ladislav Michl
b1509e3a4a armv7: add reset timeout to identify_nand_chip
identify_nand_chip hangs forever in loop when NAND is not present.
As IGEPv2 comes either with NAND or OneNAND flash, add reset timeout
to let function fail gracefully allowing caller to know NAND is
not present. On NAND equipped board, reset succeeds on first read,
so 1000 loops seems to be safe timeout.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
2016-07-22 09:53:00 -04:00
Tom Rini
9f03247edc Merge branch 'master' of git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot-microblaze 2016-07-22 09:22:26 -04:00
Michal Simek
23ffd36a52 ARM64: zynqmp: Remove get_uart_clk()
ZynqMP will use reading clock freq directly from DT.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
2016-07-22 14:04:41 +02:00
Tom Rini
9f84da8de1 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-tegra 2016-07-21 18:54:58 -04:00
Tom Rini
95d5273303 Revert "stm32: Change USART port to USART6 for stm32f746 discovery board"
Per Vikas' request, the problem this commit is supposed to be solving is
something he doesn't see and further this introduces additional hardware
requirements.

This reverts commit 4b2fd720a7.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-07-21 15:38:13 -04:00
Stephen Warren
49626ea801 ARM: tegra: add IVC protocol implementation
IVC (Inter-VM Communication) protocol is a Tegra-specific IPC (Inter
Processor Communication) framework. Within the context of U-Boot, it is
typically used for communication between the main CPU and various
auxiliary processors. In particular, it will be used to communicate with
the BPMP (Boot and Power Management Processor) on Tegra186 in order to
manipulate clocks and reset signals.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Warren <twarren@nvidia.com>
2016-07-21 09:31:30 -07:00
Tom Rini
66669fcf80 Merge git://git.denx.de/u-boot-fsl-qoriq
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/cpu/armv8/Makefile
	arch/arm/lib/bootm-fdt.c
2016-07-19 16:38:57 -04:00
Hou Zhiqiang
45684ae37b ARMv8/PSCI: Fixup the device tree for PSCI
Set the enable-method in the cpu node to PSCI, and create device
node for PSCI, when PSCI was enabled.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-19 11:34:07 -07:00
Hou Zhiqiang
f1dd4cadd2 ARMv8/layerscape: Add FSL PPA support
The FSL Primary Protected Application (PPA) is a software component
loaded during boot which runs in TrustZone and remains resident
after boot.

Use the secure firmware framework to integrate FSL PPA into U-Boot.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-19 11:33:53 -07:00
Hou Zhiqiang
b45db3b590 ARMv8: add the secure monitor firmware framework
This framework is introduced for ARMv8 secure monitor mode firmware.
The main functions of the framework are, on EL3, verify the firmware,
load it to the secure memory and jump into it, and while it returned
to U-Boot, do some necessary setups at the 'target exception level'
that is determined by the respective secure firmware.

So far, the framework support only FIT format image, and need to define
the name of which config node should be used in 'configurations' and
the name of property for the raw secure firmware image in that config.
The FIT image should be stored in Byte accessing memory, such as NOR
Flash, or else it should be copied to main memory to use this framework.

Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-19 11:33:03 -07:00
York Sun
5ad5823d0c armv8: layerscape: Convert to use common MMU framework
Drop platform code to create static MMU tables. Use common framework
to create MMU tables on the run. Tested on LS2080ARDB with secure and
non-secure ram scenarios.

Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-19 11:32:39 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
62a3b7dd08 Various, unrelated tree-wide typo fixes.
Fix a number of typos, including:

     * "compatble" -> "compatible"
     * "eanbeld" -> "enabled"
     * "envrionment" -> "environment"
     * "FTD" -> "FDT" (for "flattened device tree")
     * "ommitted" -> "omitted"
     * "overriden" -> "overridden"
     * "partiton" -> "partition"
     * "propogate" -> "propagate"
     * "resourse" -> "resource"
     * "rest in piece" -> "rest in peace"
     * "suport" -> "support"
     * "varible" -> "variable"

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
2016-07-16 09:43:12 -04:00
York Sun
cd4b0c5fea armv8: mmu: Add support of non-identical mapping
Introduce virtual and physical addresses in the mapping table. This change
have no impact on existing boards because they all use idential mapping.

Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-15 09:01:43 -07:00
York Sun
252cdb46ee armv8: mmu: house cleaning
Make setup_pgtages() and get_tcr() available for platform code to
customize MMU tables.
Remove unintentional call of create_table().

Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-15 09:01:43 -07:00
York Sun
50e93b9565 armv8: Add tlb_allocated to arch global data
When secure ram is used, MMU tables have to be put into secure ram.
To use common MMU code, gd->arch.tlb_addr will be used to host TLB
entry pointer. To save allocated memory for later use, tlb_allocated
variable is added to global data structure.

Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-15 09:01:43 -07:00
York Sun
e61a7534e3 armv8: Move secure_ram variable out of generic global data
Secure_ram variable was put in generic global data. But only ARMv8
uses this variable. Move it to ARM specific data structure.

Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
2016-07-15 09:01:43 -07:00
Tom Rini
1f9ef0dca0 Merge branch 'master' of http://git.denx.de/u-boot-sunxi 2016-07-15 10:44:01 -04:00
Chen-Yu Tsai
b7073965a3 ARM: PSCI: Make psci_get_cpu_stack_top local to armv7/psci.S
Now that we have a secure data section for storing variables, there
should be no need for platform code to get the stack address.

Make psci_get_cpu_stack_top a local function, as it should only be
used in armv7/psci.S and only by psci_stack_setup.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 15:54:58 +02:00
Chen-Yu Tsai
45c334e6b2 ARM: PSCI: Add helper functions to access per-CPU target PC storage
Now that we have a data section, add helper functions to save and fetch
per-CPU target PC.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 15:54:58 +02:00
Chen-Yu Tsai
a5aa7ff33a ARM: Add secure section for initialized data
The secure monitor may need to store global or static values within the
secure section of memory, such as target PC or CPU power status.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 15:54:58 +02:00
Chen-Yu Tsai
afc1f65f50 ARM: Move __secure definition to common asm/secure.h
sunxi and i.mx7 both define the __secure modifier to put functions in
the secure section. Move this to a common place.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 15:54:57 +02:00
Chen-Yu Tsai
980d6a5511 ARM: Add an empty secure stack section
Until now we've been using memory beyond psci_text_end as stack space
for the secure monitor or PSCI implementation, even if space was not
allocated for it.

This was partially fixed in ("ARM: allocate extra space for PSCI stack
in secure section during link phase"). However, calculating stack space
from psci_text_end in one place, while allocating the space in another
is error prone.

This patch adds a separate empty secure stack section, with space for
CONFIG_ARMV7_PSCI_NR_CPUS stacks, each 1 KB. There's also
__secure_stack_start and __secure_stack_end symbols. The linker script
handles calculating the correct VMAs for the stack section. For
platforms that relocate/copy the secure monitor before using it, the
space is not allocated in the executable, saving space.

For platforms that do not define CONFIG_ARMV7_PSCI_NR_CPUS, a whole page
of stack space for 4 CPUs is allocated, matching the previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 15:54:57 +02:00
Hans de Goede
ef36d9ae16 sunxi: Use BROM stored boot_media value to determine our boot-source
Now that we know that the BROM stores a value indicating the boot-source
at the beginning of SRAM, use that instead of trying to recreate the
BROM's boot probing.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
2016-07-15 15:54:56 +02:00
Tom Rini
ebe621d5fb Merge git://git.denx.de/u-boot-dm 2016-07-15 08:06:22 -04:00
Amit Singh Tomar
a29710c525 net: Add EMAC driver for H3/A83T/A64 SoCs.
This patch add EMAC driver support for H3/A83T/A64 SoCs.
Tested on Pine64(A64-External PHY) and Orangepipc(H3-Internal PHY).

BIG Thanks to Andre for providing some of the DT code.

Signed-off-by: Amit Singh Tomar <amittomer25@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 08:34:34 +02:00
Bernhard Nortmann
320e0570e6 sunxi: FEL - Add the ability to recognize and auto-import uEnv-style data
The patch converts one of the "reserved" fields in the sunxi SPL
header to a fel_uEnv_length entry. When booting over USB ("FEL
mode"), this enables the sunxi-fel utility to pass the string
length of uEnv.txt compatible data; at the same time requesting
that this data be imported into the U-Boot environment.

If parse_spl_header() in the sunxi board.c encounters a non-zero
value in this header field, it will therefore call himport_r() to
merge the string (lines) passed via FEL into the default settings.
Environment vars can be changed this way even before U-Boot will
attempt to autoboot - specifically, this also allows overriding
"bootcmd".

With fel_script_addr set and a zero fel_uEnv_length, U-Boot is
safe to assume that data in .scr format (a mkimage-type script)
was passed at fel_script_addr, and will handle it using the
existing mechanism ("bootcmd_fel").

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de>
Acked-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2016-07-15 08:34:34 +02:00
Siarhei Siamashka
19e99fb4ff sunxi: Support booting from SPI flash
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>
2016-07-15 08:34:34 +02:00