u-boot/common/spl/spl_semihosting.c
Sean Anderson 8e1c9fe243 spl: Add semihosting boot method
This adds a boot method for loading the next stage from the host. It is
mostly modeled off of spl_load_image_ext. I am not really sure why/how
spl_load_image_fat uses three different methods to load the image, but
the simple case seems to work OK for now.

To control the presence of this boot method, we add a config symbol.
While we're at it, we update the original semihosting config symbol.

I think semihosting has some advantages of other forms of JTAG boot.
Common other ways to boot from JTAG include:

- Implementing DDR initialization through JTAG (typically with dozens of
  lines of TCL) and then loading U-Boot. The DDR initialization
  typically uses hard-coded register writes, and is not easily adapted
  to different boards. BOOT_DEVICE_SMH allows booting with SPL,
  leveraging U-Boot's existing DDR initialization code. This is the
  method used by NXP's CodeWarrior IDE on Layerscape processors (see
  AN12270).
- Loading a bootloader into SDRAM, waiting for it to initialize DDR, and
  then loading U-Boot. This is tricky, because the debugger must stop the
  boot after the bootloader has completed its work. Trying to load
  U-Boot too early can cause failure to boot. This is the method used by
  Xilinx with its Zynq(MP) processors.
- Loading SPL with BOOT_DEVICE_RAM and breaking before SPL loads the
  image to load U-Boot at the appropriate place. This can be a bit
  tricky, because the load address is dependent on the header size. An
  elf with symbols must also be used in order to stop at the appropriate
  point. BOOT_DEVICE_SMH can be viewed as an extension of this process,
  where SPL automatically stops and tells the host where to place the
  image.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
2022-04-01 15:03:13 -04:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
/*
* Copyright (C) 2022 Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
*/
#include <common.h>
#include <image.h>
#include <log.h>
#include <semihosting.h>
#include <spl.h>
static int smh_read_full(long fd, void *memp, size_t len)
{
long read;
read = smh_read(fd, memp, len);
if (read < 0)
return read;
if (read != len)
return -EIO;
return 0;
}
static int spl_smh_load_image(struct spl_image_info *spl_image,
struct spl_boot_device *bootdev)
{
const char *filename = CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME;
int ret;
long fd, len;
struct image_header *header =
spl_get_load_buffer(-sizeof(*header), sizeof(*header));
fd = smh_open(filename, MODE_READ | MODE_BINARY);
if (fd < 0) {
log_debug("could not open %s: %ld\n", filename, fd);
return fd;
}
ret = smh_flen(fd);
if (ret < 0) {
log_debug("could not get length of image: %d\n", ret);
goto out;
}
len = ret;
ret = smh_read_full(fd, header, sizeof(struct image_header));
if (ret) {
log_debug("could not read image header: %d\n", ret);
goto out;
}
ret = spl_parse_image_header(spl_image, bootdev, header);
if (ret) {
log_debug("failed to parse image header: %d\n", ret);
goto out;
}
ret = smh_seek(fd, 0);
if (ret) {
log_debug("could not seek to start of image: %d\n", ret);
goto out;
}
ret = smh_read_full(fd, (void *)spl_image->load_addr, len);
if (ret)
log_debug("could not read %s: %d\n", filename, ret);
out:
smh_close(fd);
return ret;
}
SPL_LOAD_IMAGE_METHOD("SEMIHOSTING", 0, BOOT_DEVICE_SMH, spl_smh_load_image);