Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] at91sam9263ek: add bootstrap support

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Hi Sascha.

Previous mail was written while being disturbed by others - sorry.
 
> > > Fix lowlevel init to get reset vector.
> > > 
> > > Add new MACH_AT91SAM9263EK_BOOTSTRAP config entry
> > > used when building the bootstrap variant.
> > > The new config entry is required as we cannot combine MULTI_IMAGE
> > > with a bootstrap variant.
> > 
> > Why can't that be combined?

> The bootstrap support did not play well with the PBL support.
> And MULTI_IMAGE somehow forced this on me.

So far I have not managed to build a barebox image that would
allow ROMBOOT to load it.
As ROMBOOT is silent about why it fails I have not too much
clue why it fails.

When I compare the disassembled image with and without
PBL support enabled they looks not exactly
the same.
One example is that barebox_image_size is wrong when
I build with PBL / MULTI_IMAGE support enabled.
I need to dig deeper to find out why.
The image size is stored at address 0x14 - but is supposed
to be used only by DataFlast, NOR-flash, so this is likely not
the root-cause. But it looks wrong so one thing to fix.

I will try to chase it a bit more to see if I can get it
to work.


> Note: I also had to disable MMU support to get bootstrap working.
> With MMU enable it halted when __mmu_cache_on() was called in
> mmu-early.c
The above was only partially correct.

If MMU is enabled then I need to comment out the call
to __mmu_cache_on() in mmu_init().
Otherwise barebox just hang right after (or in) the
call to __mmu_cache_on()
(which is a call to v7_mmu_cache_on() )

ROMBOOT will copy barebox to 0x40000 and then remap:
0x40000 => 0x0
0x0 => 0x40000

I guess there is some kind of conflict between the remapping
done by ROMBOOT and the MMU setup / cache setup done by barebox.
So far I am fully satisfied to continue with MMU disabled.

	Sam

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