1. 26 Feb, 2015 2 commits
    • Siarhei Siamashka's avatar
      fel: Disable MMU to get more SRAM space and fix A13 problems · dc6c801c
      Siarhei Siamashka authored
      
      
      The FEL BROM code has the MMU enabled for some reason (while
      I-cache and D-cache are disabled). Most likely the intention was
      to get a somewhat better performance. Everything is mapped as
      TEXCB=00000 (strongly ordered), except for the 0x00000000 (SRAM)
      and 0xFFF00000 (BROM) sections, which are mapped as TEXCB=00100
      (normal uncached memory).
      
      This becomes a problem for the A13 SoC, because it has less SRAM
      than the other chips. A13 stores the MMU addresses translation
      table at 0x8000 and uses up 16 KiB of the SRAM space there (while
      the A10, A20 and A31s keep the MMU table in the secure SRAM at
      0x20000). And because the 'spl' command needs space for backing
      up the FEL stacks, it was clashing with the MMU table.
      
      The solution is simple. We just backup the addresses translation
      table and disable the MMU before running the SPL. And then restore
      it back to the original state. This fixes problems on A13.
      
      Re-enabling the MMU in the end is only necessary to avoid performance
      losses. For example, the transfer speed of the 'fel write' command
      on A20 would drop from ~320 KB/s to ~260 KB/s without MMU.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSiarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      dc6c801c
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      fel: Add --verbose option and implement transfer speed reporting · fe276666
      Siarhei Siamashka authored
      
      
      This allows to measure the USB data transfer speed for performance
      tuning purposes.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSiarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      fe276666
  2. 11 Feb, 2015 2 commits
    • Siarhei Siamashka's avatar
      fel: New command for loading U-Boot SPL binaries in eGON format · 1627b137
      Siarhei Siamashka authored
      
      
      Now it is possible to load and execute the same U-Boot SPL,
      as used for booting from SD cards. Just a different delivery
      method (a USB OTG cable instead of an SD card) for handling
      exactly the same content.
      
      The only argument for this new command is the name of the SPL
      binary file (with a eGON header generated by the 'mksunxiboot'
      tool). Now the 'fel' tool can be run as:
      
          fel spl u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
      
      Before this change, the SPL was only able to use the memory between
      addresses 0x2000 and ~0x5D00, totalling to something like ~15 KiB.
      This is the biggest contiguous area in SRAM, which is not used
      by the FEL code from the BROM. Unfortunately, it is rather small.
      And also the unusual starting offset was making it difficult to
      use the same SPL binary for booting from the SD card and via FEL.
      
      There are surely more unused parts of SRAM, but they are scattered
      across multiple locations, primarily because the FEL code from the
      BROM sets up two stacks at inconvenient locations (the IRQ handler
      stack at 0x2000, and a regular stack at 0x7000). Essentially, the
      problem to solve here is to ensure a sufficiently large and consistent
      SRAM address space for the SPL without any potentially SoC specific
      holes in the case of booting over USB via FEL.
      
      This is achieved by injecting special entry/exit thunk code, which
      is moving the data in SRAM to provide a contiguous space for the SPL
      at the beginning of SRAM, while still preserving the the data from
      the BROM elsewhere. When the SPL tries to return control back to the
      FEL code in the BROM, the thunk code moves the data back to its
      original place. Additionally, the eGON checksum is verified to
      ensure that no data corruption has happened due to some unexpected
      clash with the FEL protocol code from the BROM.
      
      So the thunk code takes care of the address space allocation uglyness
      and provides the U-Boot SPL with a somewhat nicer abstraction.
      Now the FEL booted SPL on A10/A13/A20/A31 can use up to 32 KiB of
      SRAM because the BROM data is saved to different SRAM section.
      There is also generic code, which does not rely on extra SRAM
      sections, but just glues together the unused free space from
      both BROM FEL stacks to provide something like ~21 KiB to the SPL.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSiarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      1627b137
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      fel: Split 'aw_fel_get_version' into 'get' and 'print' variants · 91949d62
      Siarhei Siamashka authored
      
      
      Now aw_fel_get_version() can get the SoC ID for internal usage
      from the other functions. And aw_fel_print_version() is used
      to print the formatted string to stdout.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSiarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      91949d62
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