2015-06-15 19:19 GMT+09:00 Przemyslaw Marczak <p.marc...@samsung.com>: > Hello Krzysztof, > > > On 06/14/2015 10:56 AM, Krzysztof Kozłowski wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> +Cc Marek, Bartlomiej, Kukjin Kim, >> >> >> I would like to bring back this topic. Unfortunately I don't have >> access to source code of BL1 (or any other firmware blob) so my >> knowledge here comes mostly from experimenting and from looking at >> sources of vendor kernel for Gear 2 (Exynos3250) and SM-G900H (Galaxy >> S5, Exynos5422). >> >> It seems that some booting firmware (I would suspect BL1 because this >> ships Samsung to Hardkernel) uses SPARE2 as synchronization mechanism. >> For example vendor kernel, when booting little core, it waits till >> SPARE2==1 and then executes software reset for this core. >> >> Observations shown that BL1 for Odroid, when booting secondary little >> core: >> 1. Expects that SPARE2 register will be initialized to 1. >> 2. If it is, then it sets it to 0, proceeds further and little core boots. >> 3. If it is not, then it sets it to 1 and waits. Maybe this is a >> notification to userspace - reset me please! >> >> Unfortunately executing software reset in that time (at point 3) >> stopped kernel from booting. No logs/dmesg and I was unable to turn on >> early printk. >> >> The answer why two of little cores boot is quite simple now. At >> beginning the SPARE2==0 so first little core will set it to 1 and wait >> till software reset. Kernel timeouts on this CPU bring up so it starts >> the sequence for next little core. Now the SPARE2==1 so the core boots >> fine and SPARE2 is set to 0. The last little core starts from >> SPARE2==0, sets it to 1 and waits for software reset. >> >> Since no one knows how this exactly works and we are stuck with BL1 >> provided as is, then IMHO the patch makes sense. >> >> Kevin, can you refresh the patch? >> It would be nice to: >> 1. set SPARE2 only for Odroid (of_machine_is_compatible()), >> 2. extend the explanation. >> >> >> Best regards, >> Krzysztof >> > > I'm trying port the hardkernel's SPL to the mainline U-Boot at present. The > mainline SPL is implemented for E5420 and E5800. But there are few > differences: > - different DRAM > - different clocks > - different boot core (peach-pi boots from A15) > - bl2 signature > - hdk's SPL uses smc calls > ... and some more. > > The BL1 keeps signature key and some part of code, but it's code is > proprietary - but we should be able to setup the secondary cores in BL2. > > When, I get the basic setup working, then I'm going to focus on the > secondary CPU's init. I don't have the documentation for iROM code, so > everything takes a while.
Great, good luck! > > If you looking for the lowlevel code, which is executed after wakeup, > please check this : > https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/blob/odroidxu3-v2012.07/board/samsung/smdk5422/lowlevel_init.S > > The 'lowlevel_init' label is always executed on boot. I already looked at it without any success. I couldn't find the reason of this SPARE2 behaviour in that code. However I found there one small funny fact about magic values for low power modes - kernel and u-boot expect some of the values in different places. Best regards, Krzysztof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
