On 05.05.19 03:42, Marek Vasut wrote:
On 5/4/19 9:10 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
Am 04.05.2019 um 20:43 schrieb Marek Vasut:
On 5/3/19 10:53 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:


Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de <mailto:ma...@denx.de>> schrieb am Fr., 3.
Mai 2019, 22:42:

      On 5/3/19 10:39 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
      >
      >
      > On 03.05.19 22:35, Marek Vasut wrote:
      >> On 5/3/19 10:30 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
      >>>
      >>>
      >>> On 03.05.19 22:28, Marek Vasut wrote:
      >>>> On 5/3/19 10:08 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
      >>>>> This moves the code that enables the Boot ROM to just jump
to SRAM
      >>>>> instead
      >>>>> of loading SPL from the original boot source on warm reboot.
      >>>>>
      >>>>> Instead of always enabling this, an environment callback
for the
      >>>>> env var
      >>>>> "socfpga_reboot_from_sram" is used. This way, the
behaviour can be
      >>>>> enabled
      >>>>> at runtime and via saved environment.
      >>>>>
      >>>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt
      <simon.k.r.goldschm...@gmail.com
      <mailto:simon.k.r.goldschm...@gmail.com>>
      >>>>
      >>>> Would that be like a default "reset" command action ?
      >>>> This probably shouldn't be socfpga specific then.
      >>>
      >>> No, it's a thing that lives on and influences even the soft
      reset issued
      >>> by linux "reboot" command. This is something *very* socfpga
      specific.
      >>
      >> Hmmm, so isn't this a policy to be configured on the Linux end ?
      >
      > Might be, but it affects U-Boot's 'reset' command as well. And
I guess
      > it's set up in U-Boot this early to ensure it always works.

      Drat, that's right. So there has to be some way to agree on how the
      reset works between the kernel and U-Boot ?

      > If it were for me, we could drop writing this magic
altogether. I just
      > figured some boards might require it to be written somewhere,
and came
      > up with a patch that might save those boards with the way it was
      before.

      Isn't this magic actually used by bootrom ?


Right. It tells the boot rom to jump to ocram on next reboot instead of
loading spl from qspi or mmc. But if that's required or not a good idea
at all depends on many factors. Some of them board related, some U-Boot
related and some Linux related (depending on the hardware and drivers
used).

Should that be runtime configurable then ?

Since it might depend on Linux putting the qspi chip into a state where
it's not accessible by the boot ROM. That might change without
rebuilding U-Boot.

If Linux switches the chip into some weird mode the bootrom cannot cope
with, it's a reset routing problem. This cannot be fixed in software.

No, it cannot be fixed, but currently there's a workaround for those boards and I thought it was worth to keep this workaround, even though my own boards will be fixed and not require such a workaround in the future :-)


On the other hand, this is probably more of a U-Boot build time config.
I could make it a Kconfig option as well...

Regards,
Simon


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