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3# Copyright (C) 2013, Miao Yan <miao.yan@windriver.com>
40144260 4# Copyright (C) 2015-2018, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
1e26f648 5# Copyright (C) 2019, Lihua Zhao <lihua.zhao@windriver.com>
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7VxWorks Support
8===============
9
10This document describes the information about U-Boot loading VxWorks kernel.
11
12Status
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14U-Boot supports loading VxWorks kernels via 'bootvx' and 'bootm' commands.
15For booting old kernels (6.9.x) on PowerPC and ARM, and all kernel versions
16on other architectures, 'bootvx' shall be used. For booting VxWorks 7 kernels
17on PowerPC and ARM, 'bootm' shall be used.
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19With CONFIG_EFI_LOADER option, it's possible to chain load a VxWorks x86 kernel
20via the UEFI boot loader application for VxWorks loaded by 'bootefi' command.
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2ad3d088 22VxWorks 7 on PowerPC and ARM
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24From VxWorks 7, VxWorks starts adopting device tree as its hardware description
25mechanism (for PowerPC and ARM), thus requiring boot interface changes.
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26This section will describe the new interface.
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28Since VxWorks 7 SR0640 release, VxWorks starts using Linux compatible standard
29DTB for some boards. With that, the exact same bootm flow as used by Linux is
30used, which includes board-specific DTB fix up. To keep backward compatibility,
31only when the least significant bit of flags in bootargs is set, the standard
32DTB will be used. Otherwise it falls back to the legacy bootm flow.
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34For legacy bootm flow, make sure the least significant bit of flags in bootargs
35is cleared. The calling convention is described below:
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37For PowerPC, the calling convention of the new VxWorks entry point conforms to
38the ePAPR standard, which is shown below (see ePAPR for more details):
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3619e94a 40 void (*kernel_entry)(fdt_addr, 0, 0, EPAPR_MAGIC, boot_IMA, 0, 0)
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2ad3d088 42For ARM, the calling convention is shown below:
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44 void (*kernel_entry)(void *fdt_addr)
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46When using the Linux compatible standard DTB, the calling convention of VxWorks
47entry point is exactly the same as the Linux kernel.
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2ad3d088 49When booting a VxWorks 7 kernel (uImage format), the parameters passed to bootm
3619e94a 50is like below:
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52 bootm <kernel image address> - <device tree address>
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54VxWorks bootline
55----------------
56When using 'bootvx', the kernel bootline must be prepared by U-Boot at a
57board-specific address before loading VxWorks. U-Boot supplies its address
58via "bootaddr" environment variable. To check where the bootline should be
59for a specific board, go to the VxWorks BSP for that board, and look for a
60parameter called BOOT_LINE_ADRS. Assign its value to "bootaddr". A typical
2ad3d088 61value for "bootaddr" on an x86 board is 0x101200.
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63If a "bootargs" variable is defined, its content will be copied to the memory
64location pointed by "bootaddr" as the kernel bootline. If "bootargs" is not
65there, command 'bootvx' can construct a valid bootline using the following
66environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask, serverip,
67gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
68
69When using 'bootm', just define "bootargs" in the environment and U-Boot will
70handle bootline fix up for the kernel dtb automatically.
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72When using 'bootefi' to chain load an x86 kernel, the UEFI boot loader
73application for VxWorks takes care of the kernel bootline preparation.
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75Serial console
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77It's very common that VxWorks BSPs configure a different baud rate for the
78serial console from what is being used by U-Boot. For example, VxWorks tends
79to use 9600 as the default baud rate on all x86 BSPs while U-Boot uses 115200.
80Please configure both U-Boot and VxWorks to use the same baud rate, or it may
81look like VxWorks hangs somewhere as nothing outputs on the serial console.
82
83x86-specific information
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85Before direct loading an x86 kernel via 'bootvx', one additional environment
86variable need to be provided. This is "vx_phys_mem_base", which represent the
87physical memory base address of VxWorks.
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89Check VxWorks kernel configuration to look for LOCAL_MEM_LOCAL_ADRS. For
90VxWorks 7, this is normally a virtual address and you need find out its
91corresponding physical address and assign its value to "vx_phys_mem_base".
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2ad3d088 93For boards on which ACPI is not supported by U-Boot yet, VxWorks kernel must
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94be configured to use MP table and virtual wire interrupt mode. This requires
95INCLUDE_MPTABLE_BOOT_OP and INCLUDE_VIRTUAL_WIRE_MODE to be included in a
96VxWorks kernel configuration.
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98Both 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x64 kernels can be loaded.
99
100There are two types of graphics console drivers in VxWorks. One is the 80x25
101VGA text mode driver. The other one is the EFI console bitmapped graphics mode
102driver. To make these drivers function, U-Boot needs to load and run the VGA
103BIOS of the graphics card first.
104
105 - If the kernel is configured with 80x25 VGA text mode driver,
106 CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_SET_VESA_MODE must be unset in U-Boot.
107 - If the kernel is configured with bitmapped graphics mode driver,
108 CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_SET_VESA_MODE need remain set but care must be taken
109 at which VESA mode is to be set. The supported pixel format is 32-bit
110 RGBA, hence the available VESA mode can only be one of the following:
111 * FRAMEBUFFER_VESA_MODE_10F
112 * FRAMEBUFFER_VESA_MODE_112
113 * FRAMEBUFFER_VESA_MODE_115
114 * FRAMEBUFFER_VESA_MODE_118
115 * FRAMEBUFFER_VESA_MODE_11B