1 To make relocation on arm working, the following changes are done:
3 At arch level: add linker flag -pie
5 This causes the linker to generate fixup tables .rel.dyn and .dynsym,
6 which must be applied to the relocated image before transferring
9 These fixups are described in the ARM ELF documentation as type 23
10 (program-base-relative) and 2 (symbol-relative)
12 At cpu level: modify linker file and add a relocation and fixup loop
14 the linker file must be modified to include the .rel.dyn and .dynsym
15 tables in the binary image, and to provide symbols for the relocation
16 code to access these tables
18 The relocation and fixup loop must be executed after executing
19 board_init_f at initial location and before executing board_init_r
24 dram_init(): bd pointer is now at this point not accessible, so only
25 detect the real dramsize, and store it in gd->ram_size. Bst detected
28 TODO: move also dram initialization there on boards where it is possible.
30 Setup of the the bd_t dram bank info is done in the new function
31 dram_init_banksize() called after bd is accessible.
35 Board.c code is adapted from ppc code
37 * WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING ** WARNING *
39 Boards which are not fixed to support relocation will be REMOVED!
41 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
43 For boards which boot from nand_spl, it is possible to save one copy
44 if CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE == relocation address! This prevents that uboot code
45 is copied again in relocate_code().
47 example for the tx25 board:
50 b) it copies the first page in nand to internal ram
52 c) end executes this code
53 d) this initialize CPU, RAM, ... and copy itself to RAM
54 (this bin must fit in one page, so board_init_f()
56 e) there it copy u-boot to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST and
57 starts this image @ CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
58 f) u-boot code steps through board_init_f() and calculates
59 the relocation address and copy itself to it
61 If CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE == relocation address, the copying of u-boot
64 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68 - fill in bd_t infos (check)
71 - maybe adapt CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE (this must be checked from board maintainers)
72 This *must* be done for boards, which boot from NOR flash
74 on other boards if CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE = relocation baseaddr, this saves
75 one copying from u-boot code.
77 - new function dram_init_banksize() is actual board specific. Maybe
78 we make a weak default function in arch/arm/lib/board.c ?
80 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
82 Relocation with NAND_SPL (example for the tx25):
84 - cpu copies the first page from NAND to 0xbb000000 (IMX_NFC_BASE)
85 and start with code execution on this address.
87 - The First page contains u-boot code from u-boot:nand_spl/nand_boot_fsl_nfc.c
88 which inits the dram, cpu registers, reloacte itself to CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and loads
89 the "real" u-boot to CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST and starts execution
90 @CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
92 - This u-boot does no RAM init, nor CPU register setup. Just look
93 where it has to copy and relocate itself to this address. If
94 relocate address = CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE (not the same, as the
95 CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE from the nand_spl code), then there is no need
96 to copy, just go on with bss clear and jump to board_init_r.
98 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
100 How ELF relocations 23 and 2 work.
104 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
106 Debugging u-boot in RAM:
107 (example on the qong board)
111 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DDEBUG
119 [hs@pollux u-boot]$ arm-linux-gdb u-boot
120 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.7-2rh)
121 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
122 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
123 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
124 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
125 and "show warranty" for details.
126 This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=arm-linux".
127 The target architecture is set automatically (currently arm)
135 target remote bdi10:2001
137 (gdb) target remote bdi10:2001
138 Remote debugging using bdi10:2001
144 d) discard symbol-file
147 Discard symbol table from `/home/hs/celf/u-boot/u-boot'? (y or n) y
153 e) load new symbol table:
155 (gdb) add-symbol-file u-boot 0x8ff08000
156 add symbol table from file "u-boot" at
157 .text_addr = 0x8ff08000
159 Reading symbols from /home/hs/celf/u-boot/u-boot...done.
163 Program received signal SIGSTOP, Stopped (signal).
164 0x8ff17f18 in serial_getc () at serial_mxc.c:192
165 192 while (__REG(UART_PHYS + UTS) & UTS_RXEMPTY);
168 add-symbol-file u-boot 0x8ff08000
170 get this address from u-boot debug printfs
172 U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00009-gf77b8b8-dirty (Jun 22 2010 - 09:43:46)
174 U-Boot code: A0000000 -> A0058BAC BSS: -> A0061F10
175 CPU: Freescale i.MX31 at 398 MHz
176 Board: DAVE/DENX Qong
177 mon: FFFFFFFF gd->monLen: 00061F10
178 Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 90000000
179 LCD panel info: 640 x 480, 16 bit/pix
180 Reserving 600k for LCD Framebuffer at: 8ff6a000
181 Reserving 391k for U-Boot at: 8ff08000
183 Reserving 1280k for malloc() at: 8fdc8000
184 Reserving 24 Bytes for Board Info at: 8fdc7fe8
185 Reserving 52 Bytes for Global Data at: 8fdc7fb4
186 New Stack Pointer is: 8fdc7fb0
188 Bank #0: 80000000 256 MiB
189 relocation Offset is: eff08000
190 mon: 00058BAC gd->monLen: 00061F10
191 Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 8ff08000
194 Now you can use gdb as usual :-)