Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:03:13 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, Nicolae-Alexandru Ivan <alexnivan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cubieboard2 with custom bootloader Message-ID: <1481817793.1972.2.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20161215133505.a7ffa64924f3be052840b828@bidouilliste.com> References: <CANg1yUsXALko5VvLsyNsHfkA2CDbRX4G_ARgFyjs7ixOo_9KKw@mail.gmail.com> <20161212160553.dee9d435125f9c6b67355d21@bidouilliste.com> <CANg1yUvmK3ti%2BSVXm30GB764SusaDYeKr6SPs5murXXV-8AZVQ@mail.gmail.com> <20161215123900.f141d13bd9814d43feb3f736@bidouilliste.com> <CAPEXxG6Dc33kcy2-jdCF%2BM9XJ5F9XaXpn_U4WT-GaDS=qYNj6w@mail.gmail.com> <20161215133505.a7ffa64924f3be052840b828@bidouilliste.com>
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On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 13:35 +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:26:48 +0200 > Nicolae-Alexandru Ivan <alexnivan@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > For 1 and 2, as Ganbold said ubldr is broken since clang 3.9 > > > import > > > (well only ubldr.bin for me ...) > > > For 3 and 4 I've never tested booting kernel directly, I'll try > > > that. > > > Does your kernel have a static dtb compiled in ? > > Yes, we included the device tree in the kernel binary. > > The options below are included in our conf. > > > > #FDT > > options FDT > > options FDT_DTB_STATIC > > makeoptions FDT_DTS_FILE=cubieboard2.dts > Oh I might now, my patches introduce a FreeBSD option for uboot that > disable the dcache while it's strictly disable in the ports. > Do a gmake menuconfig in uboot before compiling but after gmake > cubieboard2_defconfig to enable this. > It shouldn't be necessary to disable dcache, but it does need to be flushed before launching ubldr or the kernel; especially, it needs the icache sync'd. The stock uboot does the needed cache work only in the path that launches linux that has been packaged as an image file (and before launching vxworks I think). For freebsd the needed cache ops must be patched into two places, the bootelf path and the go path. -- Ian
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