1 To make relocation on arm working, the following changes are done:
7 -> compiler generates position independent code
12 - bd pointer is now at this point not accessible, so only
13 detect the real dramsize, and store it in gd->ram_size.
14 best detected with get_ram_size();
15 ToDo: move there also the dram initialization on boards where
17 - setup the bd_t dram bank info in the new function
20 - board.c code is adapted from ppc code
22 - undef CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS
24 -> cmdtabl, and subcommand table must be handled from "hand"
25 collected in section "__datarellocal_start".
27 - How To fixup the sections:
29 __datarel_start, __datarelrolocal_start, __datarellocal_start and
32 automatically? Then it should be possible to define again
33 CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS
35 - irq stack setup is now not longer on a fix position, instead it is
36 calculated in board_init_f, and stored in gd->irq_sp
38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
40 To compile a board without relocation, define CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC
41 This possibility will removed!! So please fix your board to compile without
42 CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC defined!!!
44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
46 For boards which boot from nand_spl, it is possible to save a copy
47 if TEXT_BASE == relocation address! This prevents that uboot code
48 is copied again in relocate_code().
50 example for the tx25 board:
53 b) it copies the first page in nand to internal ram
55 c) end executes this code
56 d) this initialize CPU, RAM, ... and copy itself to RAM
57 (this bin must fit in one page, so board_init_f()
59 e) there it copy u-boot to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST and
60 starts this image @ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
61 f) u-boot code steps through board_init_f() and calculates
62 the relocation address and copy itself to it
64 If TEXT_BASE == relocation address, the copying of u-boot
67 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
71 - fill in bd_t infos (check)
74 - maybe adapt TEXT_BASE (this must be checked from board maintainers)
75 This *must* be done for boards, which boot from NOR flash
77 on other boards if TEXT_BASE = relocation baseaddr, this saves
78 one copying from u-boot code.
80 - new function dram_init_banksize() is actual board specific. Maybe
81 we make a weak default function in arch/arm/lib/board.c ?
83 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
85 Relocation with NAND_SPL (example for the tx25):
87 - cpu copies the first page from NAND to 0xbb000000 (IMX_NFC_BASE)
88 and start with code execution on this address.
90 - The First page contains u-boot code from u-boot:nand_spl/nand_boot_fsl_nfc.c
91 which inits the dram, cpu registers, reloacte itself to TEXT_BASE and loads
92 the "real" u-boot to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST and starts execution
93 @CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
95 - This u-boot does no ram int, nor cpu register setup. Just looks
96 where it have to relocate and relocate itself to this address.
97 If relocate address = TEXT_BASE(not the same, as the TEXT_BASE
98 from the nand_spl code), no need to copy, just go on with bss clear
99 and jump to board_init_r.
101 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
104 How to translate flash addresses in GOT to ram addresses.
105 This is automagically done from code, but this example
106 shows, how this magic code works ;-)
107 (example on the qong board)
111 a) search it in System.map
112 (for example flash_info)
117 a005b4cc B flash_info
119 a005c908 b saved_sector.4002
120 a005c910 b cfi_mtd_info
121 a005c9c0 b cfi_mtd_names
124 ---------------------------------------
126 b) create hexdump from u-boot code:
128 hexdump -C u-boot > gnlmpfhex
130 ---------------------------------------
132 c) search the variables address in the hexdump
136 0005fc80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2c 06 01 a0 18 cd 05 a0 |........,.......|
137 0005fc90 9c d4 05 a0 bc b4 05 a0 1c 7f 05 a0 f0 05 01 a0 |................|
138 0005fca0 08 5a 04 a0 1c ab 05 a0 ec a4 05 a0 98 c3 01 a0 |.Z..............|
139 0005fcb0 a0 d6 05 a0 04 71 05 a0 c0 f9 00 a0 3c cd 05 a0 |.....q......<...|
140 0005fcc0 cc b4 05 a0 f0 fa 00 a0 f0 d6 05 a0 10 86 05 a0 |................|
142 0005fcd0 a4 16 06 a0 dc 64 05 a0 18 86 05 a0 52 48 05 a0 |.....d......RH..|
143 0005fce0 c0 86 05 a0 24 6e 02 a0 b4 6c 05 a0 b0 94 01 a0 |....$n...l......|
144 0005fcf0 1c 86 05 a0 50 85 05 a0 d4 0c 06 a0 bc 0b 06 a0 |....P...........|
149 ----------------------------------------
151 d) know we calculate this address in RAM
154 8ff08000 (new address of code in RAM *1)
158 - 00008000 (offset of text *2)
162 8ff5fcc0 -> Addr GOT in RAM
165 activate debug and look for the line:
166 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 8ff08000
168 new address of u-boot code in RAM
172 [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
173 [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0
174 [ 1] .text PROGBITS a0000000 008000 04599c 00 AX 0 0 32
178 ----------------------------------------
180 e) now we look in 8ff5fcc0 (RAM)
183 QongEVB>md 0x8ff5fcc0
184 8ff5fcc0 : a005b4cc a000faf0 a005d6f0 a0058610 ................
186 Bingo, here we have the old flash address (when relocation
187 is working, here is the fixed ram address. see @ f, how
191 ----------------------------------------
193 f) now translate it in the new RAM address
199 + 8ff08000 new address of u-boot in ram
203 QongEVB>mm 0x8ff5fcc0 0x8ff634cc 1
204 QongEVB>md 0x8ff5fcc0
205 8ff5fcc0 : 8ff634cc a000faf0 a005d6f0 a0058610 .4..............
206 8ff5fcd0 : a00616a4 a00564dc a0058618 a0054852 .....d......RH..
208 As this must be done for all address in the GOT, the u-boot
209 code did this automagically ... :-)
211 ----------------------------------------------
213 g) check if the new address is really in the bss section:
216 8ff6054c (8ff08000 + 0005854C monitorlen)
219 8ff698ac (8ff08000 + 618AC)
221 8ff634cc is in bss :-)
223 ----------------------------------------------
229 U-Boot code: A0000000 -> A005854C BSS: -> A00618AC TextBase 0xa0000000
230 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 8ff08000 relocBase 0x8ff08000
235 U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00002-gf8fbb25-dirty (Jun 18 2010 - 17:07:19)
237 U-Boot code: A0000000 -> A005854C BSS: -> A00618AC
238 CPU: Freescale i.MX31 at 398 MHz
239 Board: DAVE/DENX Qong
240 mon: FFFFFFFF gd->monLen: 000618AC
241 Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 90000000
242 LCD panel info: 640 x 480, 16 bit/pix
243 Reserving 600k for LCD Framebuffer at: 8ff6a000
244 Reserving 390k for U-Boot at: 8ff08000
245 Reserving 1280k for malloc() at: 8fdc8000
246 Reserving 28 Bytes for Board Info at: 8fdc7fe4
247 Reserving 48 Bytes for Global Data at: 8fdc7fb4
248 New Stack Pointer is: 8fdc7fb0
250 Bank #0: 80000000 256 MiB
251 mon: 0005854C gd->monLen: 000618AC
252 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 8ff08000
254 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
256 Debugging u-boot in RAM:
257 (example on the qong board)
261 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DDEBUG
269 [hs@pollux u-boot]$ arm-linux-gdb u-boot
270 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.7-2rh)
271 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
272 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
273 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
274 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
275 and "show warranty" for details.
276 This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux".
277 The target architecture is set automatically (currently arm)
285 target remote bdi10:2001
287 (gdb) target remote bdi10:2001
288 Remote debugging using bdi10:2001
294 d) discard symbol-file
297 Discard symbol table from `/home/hs/celf/u-boot/u-boot'? (y or n) y
303 e) load new symbol table:
305 (gdb) add-symbol-file u-boot 0x8ff08000
306 add symbol table from file "u-boot" at
307 .text_addr = 0x8ff08000
309 Reading symbols from /home/hs/celf/u-boot/u-boot...done.
313 Program received signal SIGSTOP, Stopped (signal).
314 0x8ff17f18 in serial_getc () at serial_mxc.c:192
315 192 while (__REG(UART_PHYS + UTS) & UTS_RXEMPTY);
318 add-symbol-file u-boot 0x8ff08000
320 get this address from u-boot debug printfs
322 U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00009-gf77b8b8-dirty (Jun 22 2010 - 09:43:46)
324 U-Boot code: A0000000 -> A0058BAC BSS: -> A0061F10
325 CPU: Freescale i.MX31 at 398 MHz
326 Board: DAVE/DENX Qong
327 mon: FFFFFFFF gd->monLen: 00061F10
328 Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 90000000
329 LCD panel info: 640 x 480, 16 bit/pix
330 Reserving 600k for LCD Framebuffer at: 8ff6a000
331 Reserving 391k for U-Boot at: 8ff08000
333 Reserving 1280k for malloc() at: 8fdc8000
334 Reserving 24 Bytes for Board Info at: 8fdc7fe8
335 Reserving 52 Bytes for Global Data at: 8fdc7fb4
336 New Stack Pointer is: 8fdc7fb0
338 Bank #0: 80000000 256 MiB
339 relocation Offset is: eff08000
340 mon: 00058BAC gd->monLen: 00061F10
341 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 8ff08000
344 Now you can use gdb as usual :-)