Merge branch '2022-04-01-arm-semihosting-cleanups-and-new-features' into next
This brings in two related series. The first from Andre:
This series is the continuation of last year's effort to support the new
Armv8-R64 application profile. This led to a significant rework of the
existing fastmodel (FVP) support, to both upgrade it to newest U-Boot
standards (OF_CONTROL and distro_boot support), but also to generalise
the code, so that plugging in the v8-R64 support in the last patch gets
much easier. This is because apart from the twisted memory map between
the two profiles there is actually little difference, when it comes to
U-Boot relevant parts of the hardware.
I kept the legacy semihosting support (which picks up magic files from
the current directory), but if that fails, we go and try virtio-blk
(.iso installer images work), then virtio-net.
Please have a look, and give it a try, if possible. Both the v8-R and
v8-A FVP models are available for free on the Arm website[1].
Patch 01/11 fixes a regression introduced in December, it should be
applied now. The rest of the patches are for the next merge window.
[1]
https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/simulation-models/fast-models
And the second from Sean (where we exclude 27, 28 and 29 for now):
This cleans up the semihosting code and adds the following new features:
- hostfs support (like sandbox)
- support for being used as a SPL boot device
- serial device support
- falling back to normal drivers if semihosting is disabled
The main device affected by these changes is vexpress64, so I'd
appreciate
if Andre (or anyone else) could try booting.
These changes are motivated by bringup for ls1046a. When forcing JTAG
boot, this device disables most communication peripherals, including
serial and ethernet devices. This appears to be fixed in later
generation devices, but we are stuck with it for now. Semihosting
provides an easy way to run a few console commands.
The patches in this series are organized as follows:
0-4: rST conversions and other documentation updates
5-9: Semihosting cleanups
10-14: Filesystem support (including SPL boot device)
15-16: Serial support
16: Documentation update
17: JTAG boot support for LS1046A
19-25: Semihosting fallback
26-29: DM puts support
The last two groups of patches are "bonus;" the first 17 patches stand
on their own. The last two groups could be broken out as separate
series, but I have kept them in this one to help with my sanity (and not
have to deal with too many outstanding series).
Patch 14 depends on [1] to apply cleanly. Patch 17 depends on [2] for
correctness. This series should be applied to u-boot/next (in
particular, the EROFS series must have been applied).
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CACRpkdZ+9fmNjC_mvrbPa9-iuTQVd8UkJ7Zpe7cL0c5vZygsVw@mail.gmail.com/T/
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20220222183840.1355337-2-sean.anderson@seco.com/