The .its targets require information about the kernel binary, such as
its entry point, which is extracted from the vmlinux ELF. We therefore
require that the ELF is built before the .its files are generated.
Declare this requirement in the Makefile such that make will ensure this
is always the case, otherwise in corner cases we can hit issues as the
.its is generated with an incorrect (either invalid or stale) entry
point.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Fixes: cf2a5e0bb4 ("MIPS: Support generating Flattened Image Trees (.itb)")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16179/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the
MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made
for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be
changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to
followon patches.
Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in
kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but
nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by
mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map
itself appropriately.
Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using
scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc
makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg.
differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for
differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of
defconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add support for generating kernel images in the Flattened Image Tree
(.itb) format as supported by U-Boot. This format is essentially a
Flattened Device Tree binary containing images (kernels, DTBs, ramdisks)
and configurations which link those images together. The big advantages
of FIT images over the uImage format are:
- We can include FDTs in the kernel image in a way that the bootloader
can extract it & manipulate it before providing it to the kernel.
Thus we can ship FDTs as part of the kernel giving us the advantages
of being able to develop & maintain the DT within the kernel tree,
but also have the benefits of the bootloader being able to
manipulate the FDT. Example uses for this would be to inject the
kernel command line into the chosen node, or to fill in the correct
memory size.
- We can include multiple configurations in a single kernel image.
This means that a single FIT image can, given appropriate
bootloaders, be booted on different boards with the bootloader
selecting an appropriate configuration & providing the correct FDT
to the kernel.
- We can support a multitude of hashes over the data.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14352/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Allow more compression algorithms as well as uncompressed uImage.bin
to be generated. An uncompressed image might be useful to rule out
problems in the decompression code in the bootloader or even speed
up the boot process at the expense of a bigger uImage file.
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9271/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add a uImage build target for MIPS, which builds uImage.gz (a U-Boot
image of vmlinux.bin.gz), and then symlinks it to uImage. This allows
for the use of other compression algorithms in future, and is how a few
other architectures do it.
It's enabled conditionally on load-y >= 0xffffffff80000000 which
hopefully allows 64bit kernels to also work as long as the load and
entry address can be represented by the 32bit addresses in the U-Boot
image format.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5795/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
- remove stuff that is not needed
VMLINUX assignment, all: rule
- use hostprogs-y for the host program
- use kbuild rules for the three targets - to beautify output
- drop clean-files - it is no longer needed
- simplify arch/mips/Makefile when calling targets in boot/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1303/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
It moves to the same directory as the boot files in other formats.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/796/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Paul Burton