Message ID | 20200110014732.4185-1-andre.przywara@arm.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | sunxi: Support automated booting from 128KB | expand |
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 7:17 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote: > > The Allwinner Boot ROM on all later SoCs can load the initial SPL code > from offset 128KB or from offset 8KB of an SD card or eMMC. > We support this in the SPL for a while now, but so far needed to manually > adjust the U-Boot image MMC load sector during compile time. > > Since the Boot ROM writes a different boot source ID into the SRAM when > loaded from the higher offset, we can check this value and dynamically > adjust the raw MMC load sector for the U-Boot proper image. > > This allows to generate *one* image file, which can be written to either > offset 8KB or to offset 128KB. The latter has the advantange of not > overlapping with a standard GPT partition table. > > Tested on Bananapi M2 Berry (R40), Orangepi Zero (H2+), Orangepi PC 2 (H5), > Pine64-LTS (A64), Bananapi-M64 (A64, both SD card and eMMC) and > Pine H64 (H6), on all boards writing the same image to both 8K and 128K. > > Cheers, > Andre. > > Andre Przywara (2): > sunxi: SPL: Factor out sunxi_get_boot_source() > sunxi: Automate loading from 128KB MMC offset Applied to u-boot-sunxi/master