On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 12:03:23AM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
>
> From: Tom Rini
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 6:16 AM
> To: Wolfgang Denk
> Cc: Aaron Williams; Daniel Schwierzeck; u-boot@lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeo
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 10:18:45PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:06:17 AM PST Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Aaron,
> >
> > In message
>
>
> you wrote:
> > > > Definitely not. You could not implement any of this without heavily
> > > > relyin
Hi Wolfgang,
On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:06:17 AM PST Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message
you wrote:
> > > Definitely not. You could not implement any of this without heavily
> > > relyin on and deriving from internal interfaces of U-Boot which are
> > > not exported for n
Dear Aaron,
In message
you wrote:
>
> > Definitely not. You could not implement any of this without heavily
> > relyin on and deriving from internal interfaces of U-Boot which are
> > not exported for non-GPL use.
>
> See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#GPLInProp=
Hi Tom,
From: Tom Rini
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 6:16 AM
To: Wolfgang Denk
Cc: Aaron Williams; Daniel Schwierzeck; u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:33:35AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear
From: Wolfgang Denk
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 3:36 AM
To: Aaron Williams
Cc: Tom Rini ; Daniel Schwierzeck
; u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: Cavium/Marvell Octeon Support
Hi Wolfgang,
I apologize in advance for the lack of email formatting
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:33:35AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <5376617.97hUrJXovB@flash> you wrote:
> >
> > > Again you don't answer my question. Why do you need a special new
> > > API for such code? Why do you not just link that code with the rest
> > > of U-Boot?
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:08:54AM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> On Monday, November 4, 2019 8:23:08 AM PST Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Dear Aaron,
> > >
> > > In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash> you wrote:
> > > > > What exactly do y
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:13:13AM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On Monday, November 4, 2019 9:22:16 AM PST Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:01:34PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> > > Hi Wolfgang,
> > >
> > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:40:27 AM PDT Wolfgang De
Dear Aaron,
In message <2609392.0ByMiX4J6F@flash> you wrote:
>
> U-Boot OS might be fun for people writing applications where they want bare
> metal (i.e. hard real-time), though that's already provided with the API and
> examples.
Urgh... no!!! U-Boot is definitely *not* suitable for any kind
Hi Wolfgang,
On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:37:26 AM PST Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <1838672.aZrPjDvGh8@flash> you wrote:
> > To be blunt, the current U-Boot EFI driver does not provide the required
> > functionality. It would need to be extended in order to work. In addit
Dear Aaron,
In message <1838672.aZrPjDvGh8@flash> you wrote:
>
> To be blunt, the current U-Boot EFI driver does not provide the required
> functionality. It would need to be extended in order to work. In addition,
> spinlocks would be required in order to handle the case of reentrancy. Also,
>
Dear Aaron,
In message <5376617.97hUrJXovB@flash> you wrote:
>
> > Again you don't answer my question. Why do you need a special new
> > API for such code? Why do you not just link that code with the rest
> > of U-Boot?
>
> The code in question that is calling the API is not GPL and hence cannot
Hi Wolfgang,
On Monday, November 4, 2019 9:22:16 AM PST Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:01:34PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> > Hi Wolfgang,
> >
> > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:40:27 AM PDT Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Dear Aaron,
> > >
> > > In message <1889679.7FQr5zsBR1@flash>
On Monday, November 4, 2019 8:23:08 AM PST Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Aaron,
> >
> > In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash> you wrote:
> > > > What exactly do you need this for? Why don't you just link your
> > > > code with the rest o
Hi Wolfgang,
On Monday, November 4, 2019 7:44:18 AM PST Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash> you wrote:
> > > What exactly do you need this for? Why don't you just link your
> > > code with the rest of U-Boot?
> >
> > We need it to obtain and modify the p
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:01:34PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:40:27 AM PDT Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > Dear Aaron,
> >
> > In message <1889679.7FQr5zsBR1@flash> you wrote:
> > > Currently we are using 39MB under arch/mips. I think I can easily cut
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash> you wrote:
> >
> > > What exactly do you need this for? Why don't you just link your
> > > code with the rest of U-Boot?
> >
> > We need it to obtain and modify the phy parameter
Dear Aaron,
In message <2710076.TiSPtmOvtb@flash> you wrote:
>
> > What exactly do you need this for? Why don't you just link your
> > code with the rest of U-Boot?
>
> We need it to obtain and modify the phy parameters. This is a custom 25G
> gearbox that needs a lot of hand holding. This may e
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 6:26:51 AM PDT Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:36:19PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:05:25 PM PDT Tom Rini wrote:
> > > External Email
> > >
> > > --
>
Hi Wolfgang,
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:40:27 AM PDT Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <1889679.7FQr5zsBR1@flash> you wrote:
> > Currently we are using 39MB under arch/mips. I think I can easily cut this
> > down to 15MB or smaller, especially by moving some code here to the
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:36:10 AM PDT Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> In message <1932577.QJWW3v3lL8@flash> you wrote:
> > We do this relocation as well, however the way we do it is by changing a
> > couple of TLB entries. This lets U-Boot begin execution from any memory
> > location
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 11:36:19PM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:05:25 PM PDT Tom Rini wrote:
> > External Email
> >
> > --
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 03:50:00AM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
Dear Aaron,
In message <1889679.7FQr5zsBR1@flash> you wrote:
>
> Currently we are using 39MB under arch/mips. I think I can easily cut this
> down to 15MB or smaller, especially by moving some code here to the
> appropriate driver directories (i.e. DRAM, pcie, watchdog, etc.)
>
> It will still
Dear Aaron,
In message <1932577.QJWW3v3lL8@flash> you wrote:
>
> We do this relocation as well, however the way we do it is by changing a
> couple of TLB entries. This lets U-Boot begin execution from any memory
> location, be it flash, L2 cache or RAM. It also lets us statically link
> U-Boot
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:05:25 PM PDT Tom Rini wrote:
> External Email
>
> --
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 03:50:00AM +, Aaron Williams wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been tasked with porting our Octeon U-Boot to t
Dear Daniel & Aaron,
In message <7fdf93f6-412e-5fcf-da5e-17665daad...@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > Some other things we have included are a native API that allows Simple
> > Executive applications to make calls into U-Boot for such things as
> > environment variable access as well as access to bl
Hi Aaron,
Am 27.10.19 um 03:34 schrieb Aaron Williams:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Friday, October 25, 2019 8:13:57 AM PDT Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
>> External Email
>>
>> --
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Am 23.10.19 um 05:50 schrieb Aaron William
Dear Aaron,
In message <4176494.JIoP81OjG2@flash> you wrote:
>
> Actually the low level code is significantly different. First of all, we need
> the U-Boot bootloader to be able to boot from different memory locations.
> Because of this, we use mapped memory for U-Boot. A side effect of this is
On Saturday, October 26, 2019 3:15:36 PM PDT Tom Rini wrote:
> External Email
>
> --
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 05:13:57PM +0200, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > Am 23.10.19 um 05:50 schrieb Aaron Williams:
> >
Hi Daniel,
On Friday, October 25, 2019 8:13:57 AM PDT Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> External Email
>
> --
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Am 23.10.19 um 05:50 schrieb Aaron Williams:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been tasked with porting our Octeon
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