[U-Boot] u-boot serial console.

2015-01-16 Thread mazen.e
Hello, I kindly want to inquire about the following: - The serial console for UART host based debugging is initialized and prepared by u-boot, is it necessary for the kernel (or any other baremetal code) to reinitialize the UART? what minimum code needs to be added to the software layer (that u-

Re: [U-Boot] Giving control to standalone app.

2014-07-06 Thread mazen.e
OK, my best thanks for your great answer. -- View this message in context: http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/Giving-control-to-standalone-app-tp183635p183639.html Sent from the U-Boot mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot

Re: [U-Boot] Giving control to standalone app.

2014-07-06 Thread mazen.e
Dear Many thanks for your reply. But what if mistakenly or accidentally the standalone application write to the memory where u-boot resides, would that cause the standalone application to crash? Otherwise (in case the standalone application has written to u-boot memory without crash ) what happ

[U-Boot] Giving control to standalone app.

2014-07-06 Thread mazen.e
Dear all, At the moment U-Boot branches to the OS entry point, U-Boot is dead and no longer exists, does this property hold also when u-boot loads a standalone application. In fact, I want to 'give control' to a standalone application, what does exactly the word 'give control' mean? e.g. 'givi

[U-Boot] u-boot limitation if any.

2014-06-09 Thread mazen.e
Undoubtedly u-boot is very powerful and feature-rich bootloader. However, does it have any limitation? In other words what features if included to u-boot current functionality would result in a better efficiency in terms of performance, power,security,portability, boot-time, or any other criteria.

Re: [U-Boot] Statically allocate a range of physical memory to an OS image.

2014-05-27 Thread mazen.e
Great, thank you very much for this valuable information. -- View this message in context: http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/Statically-allocate-a-range-of-physical-memory-to-an-OS-image-tp180825p180840.html Sent from the U-Boot mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [U-Boot] Statically allocate a range of physical memory to an OS image.

2014-05-27 Thread mazen.e
Great, many thanks for this information. On the other hand, according to my basic understanding (Please correct me if I am wrong), U-boot can pass through the bootargs env variable information about available memory in the platform. For instance, bootargs mem=512M@0xA000 .. instructs the ke

[U-Boot] Statically allocate a range of physical memory to an OS image.

2014-05-27 Thread mazen.e
Hello, I want to execute a an OS (either Linux or Android) on the Arndale exynos 5250 board. The board features 2 GB of RAM. However, I want to statically alloacate a specifc region of RAM (e.g. 1 GB) to be used by the OS, While the other 1 GB is reserved for other purposes. What is the best wa

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-26 Thread mazen.e
Hi, I am using the u-boot-arndale from https://github.com/virtualopensystems/u-boot-arndale and I am using the arm-linux-gnueabi- Linaro toolchain for compilation? I also tried u-boot-linaro-2013.03.01 but the issue persist? any suggestion please? Many thanks. -- View this message in context

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-26 Thread mazen.e
Thanks Wolfgang, I will do and post the result. Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/Standalone-application-issue-tp180515p180707.html Sent from the U-Boot mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ U-Boot mai

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-25 Thread mazen.e
Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much. As per your request, I executed the following mkimage command: mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -T standalone -C none -a 0x0c10 -e 0x0c10 -n "Hello World" -d hello_world.bin Hello.img Than, I transferred to the board using uboot loadb (followed by the k

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-25 Thread mazen.e
Dear wolfagang, Again thank you very much. Please note : I used the following command : mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -T standalone -C none -a c100 -e c100 -n "Hello World" -d hello_world.bin Hello.img I transfred the image file to (using loadb 0x43e0), the md command shows the f

Re: [U-Boot] Uboot-standalone-kernel.

2014-05-25 Thread mazen.e
Dear Marek, Best thanks for your reply. Please note that I am graduate student part of my thesis involves the development of standalone bare-metal hardware aided mini-hypervisor (on the arndale exynos 5250) featuring resiliency to critical info leakage (e.g. micor-architectural leakage etc..).

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-25 Thread mazen.e
Dear Wolfang, Dear Wolfang, Thank you very much for the time your are investing replying to my messages. Here is the command I am using to make the image : mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -T standalone -C none -a c100 -e 0c10 -n "Hello World" -d hello_world.bin HelloWorld.img Please note th

Re: [U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-24 Thread mazen.e
Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much for pointing out the issue of address conflict. I tried loading the standalone app considering your remarks, however, the app hangs at the following after a bootm command : ---

[U-Boot] Uboot-standalone-kernel.

2014-05-23 Thread mazen.e
Is it possible to load a bare-metal standalone application by using uboot, and let the standalone app load a kernel and FS, could you please propose a hint on how to it? Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/Uboot-standalone-kernel-tp180527.html Se

[U-Boot] Standalone application issue.

2014-05-23 Thread mazen.e
Hi, I am trying to load and execute the hello world standalone app on the arndale exynos 5250. I created an image using the mkimage tool and then used the bootm to load and execute the image. However, the applications does not print anything on the terminal and all what I can see is the following

[U-Boot] Export Uboot command line functions to a standalone app.

2014-05-21 Thread mazen.e
Hello, is it possible to export some Uboot command line functions (e.g. bootm) to a standalone app, in such shall my app be GPLed. Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/Export-Uboot-command-line-functions-to-a-standalone-app-tp180395.html Sent from t

[U-Boot] VMM as a standalone app.

2014-05-21 Thread mazen.e
Dear all, I am thinking of getting the Uboot to load a VMM (in hyp mode) rather than a standard kernel, is it a good (and feasible) idea to set the VMM as a standalone application which runs in hyp mode, and then the VMM uncompress and load a kernel image to be executed in SVC mode, is there a bet