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2 U-Boot for ARM Integrator Development Platforms
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4 Peter Pearse, ARM Ltd.
5 peter.pearse@arm.com
6 www.arm.com
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8Manuals available from :-
9http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/Hardware_Platforms.html
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11Overview :
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13There are two Integrator variants - Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP.
14Each may be fitted with a variety of core modules (CMs).
fe7eb5d8 15Each CM consists of a ARM processor core and associated hardware e.g
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16 FPGA implementing various controllers and/or register
17 SSRAM
18 SDRAM
19 RAM controllers
20 clock generators etc.
9b880bd4 21CMs may be fitted with varying amounts of SDRAM using a DIMM socket.
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23Boot Methods :
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25Integrator platforms can be configured to use U-Boot in at least three ways :-
26a) Run ARM boot monitor, manually run U-Boot image from flash
27b) Run ARM boot monitor, automatically run U-Boot image from flash
28c) Run U-Boot image direct from flash.
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fe7eb5d8 30In cases a) and b) the ARM boot monitor will have configured the CM and mapped
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31writeable memory to 0x00000000 in the Integrator address space.
32U-Boot has to carry out minimal configration before standard code is run.
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34In case c) it may be necessary for U-Boot to perform CM dependent initialization.
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36Configuring U-Boot :
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74f4304e 38 The makefile contains targets for Integrator platforms of both types
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39fitted with all current variants of CM. If these targets are to be used with
40boot process c) above then CONFIG_INIT_CRITICAL may need to be defined to ensure
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41that the CM is correctly configured.
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43 There are also targets independent of CM. These may not be suitable for
fe7eb5d8 44boot process c) above. They have been preserved for backward compatibility with
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45existing build processes.
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47Code Hierarchy Applied :
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fe7eb5d8 49Code specific to initialization of a particular ARM processor has been placed in
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50cpu/arm<>/start.S so that it may be used by other boards.
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fe7eb5d8 52However, to avoid duplicating code through all processor files, a generic core
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53for ARM Integrator CMs has been added
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55 cpu/arm_intcm
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57Otherwise. for example, the standard CM reset via the CM control register would
58need placing in each CM processor file......
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60Code specific to the initialization of the CM, rather than the cpu, and initialization
fe7eb5d8 61of the Integrator board itself, has been placed in
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fe7eb5d8 63 board/integrator<>/platform.S
74f4304e 64 board/integrator<>/integrator<>.c