the ar71xx platform code should assume a uboot or redboot environment.
The current code gets very confused (and just crashes) on a uboot
environment, where each attribute=value pair is in a single entry.
Redboot on the other hand stores it as "attribute", "value", "attribute",
"value", ...
This allows the kernel to boot on a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND from flash,
where the uboot environment gets setup. This didn't show up during a netboot
as "tftpboot" and "go" don't setup the uboot environment variables.
just for Redboot.
At some point we're going to need to build options for different
boot environments - for example, the UBoot setups I've seen simply
have the MAC address hard-coded at a fixed location in flash.
The OpenWRT support simply yanks the if_arge MAC directly from that
in code, rather than trying to find a uboot environment to pull it
from.
memory detected from Redboot, or overrides the "otherwise" case
if no Redboot information was found.
Some AR71XX platforms don't use Redboot (eg TP-LINK devices using
UBoot; some later Ubiquiti devices which apparently also use
UBoot) and at least one plain out lies - the Ubiquiti LS-SR71A
Redboot says there's 16mb of RAM when in fact there's 32mb.
A more "clean" solution will be needed at a later date.
* Implement a SoC probe function, from Linux, which determines the
SoC family, type and revision. This only probes the AR71xx series
SoC and (currently) panics on others.
* Migrate some of the AR71XX specific hardware init (USB device, determining
system frequencies) into using the cpuops introduced in an earlier commit.
Other SoC specific hardware stuff (per-device flush/WB, GPIO pin wiring,
Ethernet PLL setup, other things I've likely missed) will be introduced in
subsequent commits.
Reviewed by: imp@
Obtained from: (partially) Linux
symbols resolving in DDB
- When zeroing .bss/.sbss do not round end address to page boundary,
it's not neccessary and might destroy data pased by trampoline or
boot loader
