function, which is expected to set returned env to NULL upon reaching the end
of the environment list but fails to do so in certain cases. The respective
u-boot code looks like the following (HEAD at the time of this commit):
--- api.c ---
496 static int API_env_enum(va_list ap)
...
510 *next = last;
511
512 for (i = 0; env_get_char(i) != '\0'; i = n + 1) {
513 for (n = i; env_get_char(n) != '\0'; ++n) {
514 if (n >= CONFIG_ENV_SIZE) {
515 /* XXX shouldn't we set *next = NULL?? */
516 return 0;
517 }
518 }
-------------
The net result is that any unfortunate user of the loader's ub_env_enum()
function hitting this condition would be trapped in the infinite loop, as
the main use pattern of ub_env_enum() is basically the following:
while ((env = ub_env_enum(env)) != NULL) { DO STUFF }
Which would stuck forever with the last element.
fails to properly consider memory regions when the loader is
located below of those regions or engulfs their lower limit. This
results in "not enough RAM to load kernel" panic, which is totally
bogus. On top of that, there are some variables that can be left
unitialized in those cases, which might cause it fail with memory
access violation instead of panic while trying to load kernel to
a wrong or non-existing address of memory.
Augment the code to properly deal with the loader being below or
at the lower bound of the memory region in question. Also, don't
leave ununitialized variables behind.
Reviewed by: ian
it from the uboot net_init() implementation. The routine uses the standard
U-Boot env vars plus a freebsd-specific variable named "rootpath" (the
corresponding u-boot variable for that would be "bootfile" except that it
refers to ubldr, so a new name was needed to communicate the path to ubldr).
This allows ubldr to load a kernel from nfs without requiring a dhcp or
bootp server to provide the server ip and rootpath parameters.
Previously, ubldr would use the virtual addresses in the elf headers by
masking off the high bits and assuming the result was a physical address
where the kernel should be loaded. That would sometimes discard
significant bits of the physical address, but the effects of that were
undone by archsw copy code that would find a large block of memory and
apply an offset to the source/dest copy addresses. The result was that
things were loaded at a different physical address than requested by the
higher code layers, but that worked because other adjustments were applied
later (such as when jumping to the entry point). Very confusing, and
somewhat fragile.
Now the archsw copy routines are just simple copies, and instead
archsw.arch_loadaddr is implemented to choose a load address. The new
routine uses some of the code from the old offset-translation routine to
find the largest block of ram, but it excludes ubldr itself from that
range, and also excludes If ubldr splits the largest block of ram in
two, the kernel is loaded into the bottom of whichever resulting block is
larger.
As part of eliminating ubldr itself from the ram ranges, export the heap
start/end addresses in a pair of new global variables.
This change means that the virtual addresses in the arm kernel elf headers
now have no meaning at all, except for the entry point address. There is
an implicit assumption that the entry point is in the first text page, and
that the address in the the header can be turned into an offset by masking
it with PAGE_MASK. In the future we can link all arm kernels at a virtual
address of 0xC0000000 with no need to use any low-order part of the
address to influence where in ram the kernel gets loaded.
several types of data into the mem-info array (DRAM, SRAM, flash). We
need to extract just the DRAM entries for translation into fdt memory
properties.
Also, increase the number of regions we can handle from 5 to 16.
Submitted by: Michal Meloun
setting the u-boot environment variable loaderdev=. It used to accept only
'disk' or 'net'. Now it allows specification of unit, slice, and partition
as well. In addition to the generic 'disk' it also accepts specific
storage device types such as 'mmc' or 'sata'.
If there isn't a loaderdev env var, the historical behavior is maintained.
It will use the first storage device it finds, or a network device if
no working storage device exists.
99% of the work on this was done by Patrick Kelsey, but I made some
changes, so if anything goes wrong, blame me.
Submitted by: Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org>
by having uboot_autoload() do the fdt setup (which may load a file) rather
than waiting until we're actually in the process of launching the kernel.
As part of making this happen...
- Define LOADER_FDT_SUPPORT on the uboot/lib compile command line when
MK_FDT is set.
- Make fdt_setup_fdtb() public.
- Declare public fdt_whatever() functions in a header instead of using
scattered extern decls in .c files.
disk_open(). Very often this is called several times for one file.
This leads to reading partition table metadata for each call. To
reduce the number of disk I/O we have a simple block cache, but it
is very dumb and more than half of I/O operations related to reading
metadata, misses this cache.
Introduce new cache layer to resolve this problem. It is independent
and doesn't need initialization like bcache, and will work by default
for all loaders which use the new DISK API. A successful disk_open()
call to each new disk or partition produces new entry in the cache.
Even more, when disk was already open, now opening of any nested
partitions does not require reading top level partition table.
So, if without this cache, partition table metadata was read around
20-50 times during boot, now it reads only once. This affects the booting
from GPT and MBR from the UFS.
The generic ELF loading code maps the kernel into low memory
by subtracting KERN_BASE. So the copyin/copyout/readin functions
are always called with low addresses. This code finds the largest
DRAM block from the U-Boot memory map and adds that base to
the addresses.
In particular, this fixes ubldr on AM3358, which has DRAM
mapped to 0x80000000 at power-on.
o This is disabled by default for now, and can be enabled using WITH_FDT at
build time.
o Tested with ARM and PowerPC.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Only non-sliced bsdlabel style partitioning is currently supported (but provisions
are made towards GPT support, which should follow soon)
- Enable storage support in loader on ARM
Obtained from: Semihalf
This uses the common U-Boot support lib (sys/boot/uboot, already used on
FreeBSD/powerpc), and assumes the underlying firmware has the modern API for
stand-alone apps enabled in the config (CONFIG_API).
Only netbooting is supported at the moment.
Obtained from: Marvell, Semihalf
- extend ub_dev_read() and ub_dev_recv() so that the actual len and
all error codes can be passed and processed properly; unify behaviour of
these routines
- introduce syscall general error code (API_ESYSC)
- add new diag commands: devinfo, sysinfo for U-Boot-style details about the system
configuration
- better memory info summary
- style corrections
Obtained from: Semihalf
This was introduced as a workaround long time ago for some Alpha firmware
(which is now gone), and actually prevented net_close() to ever be
called.
Certain firmwares (U-Boot) need local shutdown operations to be performed on a
network controller upon transaction end: such platform-specific hooks are
supposed to be called via netif_close() (from within net_close()).
This change effectively reverts the following CVS commit:
sys/boot/common/dev_net.c
revision 1.7
date: 2000/05/13 15:40:46; author: dfr; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1
Only probe network settings on the first open of the network device.
The alpha firmware takes a seriously long time to open the network device
the first time.
Also suppress excessive output while netbooting via loader, unless debugging.
While there, make sys/boot/uboot more style(9) compliant.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
o Move the API prototypes to a separate header (glue.h)
o Allow the platform to hint libuboot about where to look
for the API signature. The uboot_address variable is
expected to be defined by the platform.
