7 To unify all existing implementations for a secondary program loader (SPL)
8 and to allow simply adding of new implementations this generic SPL framework
9 has been created. With this framework almost all source files for a board
10 can be reused. No code duplication or symlinking is necessary anymore.
16 There is a new directory $(srctree)/spl which contains only a Makefile.
17 The object files are built separately for SPL and placed in this directory.
18 The final binaries which are generated are u-boot-spl, u-boot-spl.bin and
21 During the SPL build a variable named CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is exported
22 in the make environment and also appended to CPPFLAGS with -DCONFIG_SPL_BUILD.
23 Source files can therefore be compiled for SPL with different settings.
24 ARM-based boards have previously used the option CONFIG_PRELOADER for it.
28 ifeq ($(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD),y)
29 COBJS-y += board_spl.o
34 COBJS-$(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) += foo.o
36 #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
41 The building of SPL images can be with:
45 Because SPL images normally have a different text base, one has to be
46 configured by defining CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE. The linker script has to be
47 defined with CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT.
49 To support generic U-Boot libraries and drivers in the SPL binary one can
50 optionally define CONFIG_SPL_XXX_SUPPORT. Currently following options
53 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT (common/libcommon.o)
54 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT (disk/libdisk.o)
55 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT (drivers/i2c/libi2c.o)
56 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT (drivers/gpio/libgpio.o)
57 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT (drivers/mmc/libmmc.o)
58 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT (drivers/serial/libserial.o)
59 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT (drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o)
60 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT (drivers/spi/libspi.o)
61 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT (fs/fat/libfat.o)
62 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT (lib/libgeneric.o)
63 CONFIG_SPL_POWER_SUPPORT (drivers/power/libpower.o)
64 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SUPPORT (drivers/mtd/nand/libnand.o)
65 CONFIG_SPL_DRIVERS_MISC_SUPPORT (drivers/misc)
66 CONFIG_SPL_DMA_SUPPORT (drivers/dma/libdma.o)
67 CONFIG_SPL_POST_MEM_SUPPORT (post/drivers/memory.o)
68 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_LOAD (drivers/mtd/nand/nand_spl_load.o)
69 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_LOAD (drivers/mtd/spi/spi_spl_load.o)
70 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE (common/spl/spl.c)
71 CONFIG_SPL_WATCHDOG_SUPPORT (drivers/watchdog/libwatchdog.o)
73 Normally CPU is assumed to be the same between the SPL and normal
74 u-boot build. However it is possible to specify a different CPU for
75 the SPL build for cases where the SPL is expected to run on a
76 different CPU model from the main u-boot. This is done by specifying
77 an SPL CPU in boards.cfg as follows:
81 This case CPU will be set to "normal_cpu" during the main u-boot
82 build and "spl_cpu" during the SPL build.
88 When building SPL with DEBUG set you may also need to set CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
89 as in most cases do_reset is not defined within SPL.
92 Estimating stack usage
93 ----------------------
95 With gcc 4.6 (and later) and the use of GNU cflow it is possible to estimate
96 stack usage at various points in run sequence of SPL. The -fstack-usage option
97 to gcc will produce '.su' files (such as arch/arm/cpu/armv7/syslib.su) that
98 will give stack usage information and cflow can construct program flow.
100 Must have gcc 4.6 or later, which supports -fstack-usage
103 2) Perform the following shell command to generate a list of C files used in
105 $ find spl -name '*.su' | sed -e 's:^spl/::' -e 's:[.]su$:.c:' > used-spl.list
107 $ cflow --main=board_init_r `cat used-spl.list` 2>&1 | $PAGER
109 cflow will spit out a number of warnings as it does not parse
110 the config files and picks functions based on #ifdef. Parsing the '.i'
111 files instead introduces another set of headaches. These warnings are
112 not usually important to understanding the flow, however.