-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2014 03:43 PM, Darwin Rambo wrote: > On 14-02-28 10:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > On 02/28/2014 01:18 PM, Darwin Rambo wrote: >>>> Given the ARM header below, is this code possible to put into >>>> u-boot? >>>> >>>> For reference, I see this discussion below. >>>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-November/110884.html >>>> >>>> If this is not acceptable, presumably due to the "All rights >>>> reserved" and "Redistribution in binary form..." clauses below, we >>>> could try to find an alternative implementation that is GPL2.0+ >>>> licensed or rewrite the parts we need from scratch. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions you have would be most welcome. Thanks. > > So, that particular discussion was about fastboot, and in that > particular case everything is OK, in the long run (I poked TI's > lawyers about that). We're just missing a clean design version being > ported and I know of a few groups / companies leaning on another > entity to do so. > > But with your particular quoted header, I think we cannot use it as it > puts restrictions on the binary redistribution as well. > >> Thanks Tom. If we were to create a small bit of arm-specific semihosting >> code without the licensing restrictions, and it were acceptable to the >> maintainers to upstream, would it best live in >> u-boot/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c or in u-boot/lib/semihosting.c? I was >> thinking that arch/arm/lib might be the better place for it, especially >> since it can support both armv7 and armv8 platforms. The semihosting.h >> file might live in arch/arm/include/asm? > >> BTW the proposal for this is to be able to use the ARM Trusted Firmware >> (ATF) to load the various ATF images, plus u-boot, which can then load >> the kernel/ramdisk/dtb from a standard arm board file using semihosting, >> and then launch the kernel without a bootwrapper. This gives us a more >> realistic boot sequence. Thanks!
I would say arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c and arch/arm/include/asm/semihosting.h, Albert? - -- Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTGN7UAAoJENk4IS6UOR1WsIsP/ibmrhWCwa4lXHTzS4dX4wiO BKud7138MdIoEhXc36ftikRcggNBap6etTKLjU8hyoL40t9pJboBqu1saSLlFvUU KIDZAZ8DvmZuGpUdYsK+m8c8vaACZhW+99+ZuMbnp4kdVSI3zsRC7RNuMTCHSol4 WmI96puXEFt98mvS5LzaW1Idl+/GGO0rdL2aNA6l/IUXjgSgt8H85Wk+xsvEQxrJ LcCmxs38h0nLhABx1NWXgyK5blej9T2tS5VElaRF2UvEmKnoNUTQBPkBZtYS2s7R a9Az2dh4fEiztPxx21EeWzojIlBoe7d35WrcWpcQ+hLrHFVG6Ez6IHdYriT7tQVi 5/SJUE22hXalQf+RLqGdsDHYhuOifojcX6CVq0Z8Xgx5sXQI9dAugY5fmik51biZ QfMPT2B1OZFtXAItDRJO0clygSW87kadvoWrtpTp0aMPCIrM49aoOp4MvVclWlZj 9gFFVfXk0IJf66jTH/HDMvHmMPQmQ/6kpI8QaVri2KjQawtit3rwJlJX41qlYQw8 duDBz8YzfXQ6bYHASDNQ2ExhOpx+wdIni931AEnwIbJBciYW/VFuuaOG4Jb8boCo S9rrU+O+EtamFOK4RFGfbzMTiHudAJkGXabv9HB7zBmmeRuovOw5H0PlSFzZSSlr Ew6dyP2wsQKk4VtnQPIc =Nu8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
