Some boards with Allwinner SoCs feature a "FEL" key, sometimes also
labelled "uboot", which triggers the BootROM FEL mode, when pressed upon
power-on or reset. This allows to access the SoC's memory via USB OTG,
and to upload and execute code. There is a tool to upload our U-Boot image
and immediately boot it, when the SoC is in FEL mode.
To mimic this convenient behaviour on boards without such a dedicated key,
we can query a GPIO pin very early in the SPL boot, then trigger the
BootROM FEL routine. There has not been much of a SoC or board setup at
this point, so we enter the BROM in a rather pristine state still. On
64-bit SoCs the required AArch32 reset guarantees a clean CPU state anyway.
Any GPIO can be used for that, and a board (or a user) is expected to
specify the GPIO name using the CONFIG_SUNXI_FAKE_FEL_PIN Kconfig variable.
When this variable is not set, the compiler will optimise away the call.
Call the code first thing in board_init_f(), which is the first sunxi
specific C routine.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
---
arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
index 25b47ada7ad..912d3a3a650 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig
@@ -789,6 +789,15 @@ config MMC_SUNXI_SLOT_EXTRA
slot or emmc on mmc1 - mmc3. Setting this to 1, 2 or 3 will enable
support for this.
+config SUNXI_FAKE_FEL_PIN
+ string "fake FEL GPIO pin"
+ default ""
+ ---help---
+ Define a GPIO that shall force entering FEL mode when a button
+ connected to this pin is pressed at boot time.
+ This takes a string in the format understood by sunxi_name_to_gpio,
+ e.g. PH1 for pin 1 of port H.
+
config I2C0_ENABLE
bool "Enable I2C/TWI controller 0"
default y if MACH_SUN4I || MACH_SUN5I || MACH_SUN7I || MACH_SUN8I_R40
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c
index 701899ee4b2..ea0e7bb381d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/board.c
@@ -457,8 +457,38 @@ u32 spl_mmc_boot_mode(struct mmc *mmc, const u32
boot_device)
return result;
}
+static void check_fake_fel_button(void)
+{
+ u32 brom_entry = 0x20;
+ int pin, value, mux;
+
+ /* check for empty string at compile time */
+ if (sizeof(CONFIG_SUNXI_FAKE_FEL_PIN) == sizeof(""))
+ return;
+
+ pin = sunxi_name_to_gpio(CONFIG_SUNXI_FAKE_FEL_PIN);
+ if (pin < 0)
+ return;
+
+ mux = sunxi_gpio_get_cfgpin(pin);
+ sunxi_gpio_set_cfgpin(pin, SUNXI_GPIO_INPUT);
+ value = gpio_get_value(pin);
+ sunxi_gpio_set_cfgpin(pin, mux);
+
+ if (value)
+ return;
+
+ /* Older SoCs maps the BootROM high in the address space. */
+ if (fel_stash.sctlr & BIT(13))
+ brom_entry |= 0xffff0000;
+
+ return_to_fel(0, brom_entry);
+}
+
void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
{
+ check_fake_fel_button();
+
sunxi_sram_init();
/* Enable non-secure access to some peripherals */
--
2.46.3
