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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: *** PROBABLY SPAM *** reimplement bootm support
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:37:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215133713.GE9234@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1323945034-19687-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

HI,

	can you put on a git somewhere

Best Regards,
J.
On 11:30 Thu 15 Dec     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The following series reimplements bootm. bootm now can handle
> all kinds of images and becomes the single point of booting.
> 
> The simplest case for booting an image still is:
> 
> bootm <image>
> 
> With image being a uImage, or, if the architecture supports
> it, a zImage, a raw image or a barebox image.
> 
> the bootm implementation also supports initrds and oftrees in
> uImage or native format. An example for booting with initrd
> and oftree is:
> 
> bootm -r uImage.initrd -o uImage.oftree uImage.kernel
> bootm -r initrd.lzo -o oftree.dtb zImage
> 
> or:
> 
> bootm -r uImage.multi@1 -o uImage.multi@2 uImage.multi@0
> 
> for multifile uImages.
> 
> uImages have a hardcoded load address which does work for
> multi SoC kernel images with different SDRAM addresses. For
> this reason this implementation interprets a load address
> of 0xffffffff as "let the handler decide". If the handlers
> decision is wrong then the load address can be forced with
> -a <address>
> 
> Unlike the old implementation this one uses the resource mechanism
> to make sure that the images are really loaded to SDRAM and that
> the images do not overlap with either other images or parts
> of barebox.
> 
> All this is based on a new uImage implementation which provides
> a simple API for loading and checking uImages.
> 
> This API is also used to implement a new 'uimage' command which
> superseeds the iminfo command. Unlike iminfo uimage can also
> be used for extracting and verifying images.
> 
> The arm 'bootz' and 'bootu' commands are not necessary anymore
> but kept in the tree for now.
> 
> Here is a complete list of options for the bootm command:
> 
> Usage: bootm [OPTIONS] image
> Boot an application image.
> -c      crc check uImage data
> -r <initrd>     specify an initrd image
> -L <load addr>  specify initrd load address
> -a <load addr>  specify os load address
> -e <ofs>        entry point to the image relative to start (0)
> -o <oftree>     specify oftree
> -v      verbose
> 
> Sascha
> 
> 
> Sascha Hauer (12):
>       oftree: add of_fix_tree()
>       filetype: Add oftree detection
>       uncompress: implement uncompress_fd_to_buf
>       libbb: add read_full/write_full functions
>       ARM: call start_linux directly with initrd start/size and oftree
>       reimplement uImage code
>       bootm: use new uimage code
>       add uimage command
>       remove now obsolete iminfo command
>       remove now unused uImage code
>       move code now only used in mkimage to mkimage
>       defaultenv: simplify boot
> 
>  arch/arm/boards/at91rm9200ek/env/config           |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/at91sam9261ek/env/config          |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/at91sam9263ek/env/config          |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/at91sam9m10g45ek/env/config       |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/env/bin/boot    |    9 +-
>  arch/arm/boards/chumby_falconwing/env/config      |    2 -
>  arch/arm/boards/dss11/env/config                  |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx25/env/config        |    1 -
>  arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx35/env/config        |    1 -
>  arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx51/env/config        |    1 -
>  arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx35-3-stack/env/config |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx51-pdk/env/config     |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx53-loco/env/config    |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx53-smd/env/config     |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/guf-cupid/env/config              |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/guf-neso/env/config               |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/karo-tx25/env/config              |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/karo-tx28/env/config              |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/mini2440/env/config               |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/nhk8815/env/config                |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/panda/env/config                  |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pcm037/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pcm038/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pcm043/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pcm049/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/phycard-i.MX27/env/config         |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pm9261/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/pm9g45/env/config                 |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/scb9328/env/config                |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/usb-a926x/env/config              |    5 -
>  arch/arm/boards/versatile/env/config              |    5 -
>  arch/arm/include/asm/armlinux.h                   |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/armlinux.c                           |   20 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/bootm.c                              |  221 +++++++++-
>  arch/arm/lib/bootu.c                              |    8 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/bootz.c                              |    7 +-
>  arch/blackfin/lib/blackfin_linux.c                |   12 +-
>  arch/nios2/boards/generic/env/config              |    1 -
>  arch/nios2/lib/bootm.c                            |   11 +-
>  arch/ppc/lib/ppclinux.c                           |   16 +-
>  commands/Kconfig                                  |   28 +-
>  commands/Makefile                                 |    2 +-
>  commands/bootm.c                                  |  451 +++++++++++++-----
>  commands/iminfo.c                                 |   71 ---
>  commands/uimage.c                                 |  108 +++++
>  common/Makefile                                   |    1 +
>  common/filetype.c                                 |    3 +
>  common/image.c                                    |  287 ------------
>  common/oftree.c                                   |   22 +-
>  common/uimage.c                                   |  505 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  defaultenv/bin/boot                               |   43 +--
>  defaultenv/config                                 |    5 -
>  include/boot.h                                    |   62 +++-
>  include/filetype.h                                |    1 +
>  include/image.h                                   |  155 ++------
>  include/libbb.h                                   |    3 +
>  include/of.h                                      |    1 +
>  lib/libbb.c                                       |   50 ++
>  lib/uncompress.c                                  |    8 +
>  scripts/mkimage.c                                 |  240 ++++++++++
>  60 files changed, 1629 insertions(+), 860 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 commands/iminfo.c
>  create mode 100644 commands/uimage.c
>  create mode 100644 common/uimage.c
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-15 10:30 Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 01/12] oftree: add of_fix_tree() Sascha Hauer
2011-12-18 13:07   ` *** PROBABLY SPAM *** " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-12-19 10:31     ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-20 14:03       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-12-23 17:14         ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-25  6:09           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-01-02 11:49             ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 02/12] filetype: Add oftree detection Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 03/12] uncompress: implement uncompress_fd_to_buf Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 04/12] libbb: add read_full/write_full functions Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 05/12] ARM: call start_linux directly with initrd start/size and oftree Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 06/12] reimplement uImage code Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 13:33   ` *** PROBABLY SPAM *** " Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-12-15 15:27     ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 16:20       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-12-15 16:39         ` Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 07/12] bootm: use new uimage code Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 08/12] add uimage command Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 09/12] remove now obsolete iminfo command Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 10/12] remove now unused uImage code Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 11/12] move code now only used in mkimage to mkimage Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 12/12] defaultenv: simplify boot Sascha Hauer
2011-12-15 13:37 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2011-12-15 14:47   ` *** PROBABLY SPAM *** reimplement bootm support Sascha Hauer

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