On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:45:06AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote: > From: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com> > > Some SPL loaders (like Allwinner's boot0, and Broadcom's boot0) > require a header before the actual U-Boot binary to both check its > validity and to find other data to load. Sometimes this header may > only be a few bytes of information, and sometimes this might simply > be space that needs to be reserved for a post-processing tool. > > Introduce a config option to allow assembler preprocessor commands > to be inserted into the code at the appropriate location; typical > assembler preprocessor commands might be: > .space 1000 > .word 0x12345678 > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com> > Signed-off-by: Steve Rae <s...@broadcom.com> > Commit Notes: > Please note that the current code: > start.S (arm64) and > vectors.S (arm) > already jumps over some portion of data already, so this option basically > just increases the size of this region (and the resulting binary). > > For use with Allwinner's boot0 blob there is a tool called boot0img[1], > which fills the header to allow booting A64 based boards. > For the Pine64 we need a 1536 byte header (including the branch > instruction) at the moment, so we add this to the defconfig. > > [1] https://github.com/apritzel/pine64/tree/master/tools > END > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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