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2 | # Copyright (C) 2013, Miao Yan <[email protected]> | |
3 | # Copyright (C) 2015, Bin Meng <[email protected]> | |
4 | # | |
5 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ | |
6 | # | |
7 | ||
8 | VxWorks Support | |
9 | =============== | |
10 | ||
11 | This document describes the information about U-Boot loading VxWorks kernel. | |
12 | ||
13 | Status | |
14 | ------ | |
15 | U-Boot supports loading VxWorks kernels via 'bootvx' and 'bootm' commands. | |
16 | For booting old kernels (6.9.x) on PowerPC and ARM, and all kernel versions | |
17 | on other architectures, 'bootvx' shall be used. For booting VxWorks 7 kernels | |
18 | on PowerPC and ARM, 'bootm' shall be used. | |
19 | ||
20 | 64-bit x86 kernel cannot be loaded as of today. | |
21 | ||
22 | VxWork 7 on PowerPC and ARM | |
23 | --------------------------- | |
24 | From VxWorks 7, VxWorks starts adopting device tree as its hardware decription | |
25 | mechansim (for PowerPC and ARM), thus requiring boot interface changes. | |
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26 | This section will describe the new interface. |
27 | ||
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28 | For PowerPC, the calling convention of the new VxWorks entry point conforms to |
29 | the ePAPR standard, which is shown below (see ePAPR for more details): | |
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33 | For ARM, the calling convention is show below: | |
34 | ||
35 | void (*kernel_entry)(void *fdt_addr) | |
36 | ||
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37 | When booting new VxWorks kernel (uImage format), the parameters passed to bootm |
38 | is like below: | |
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40 | bootm <kernel image address> - <device tree address> | |
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42 | VxWorks bootline |
43 | ---------------- | |
44 | When using 'bootvx', the kernel bootline must be prepared by U-Boot at a | |
45 | board-specific address before loading VxWorks. U-Boot supplies its address | |
46 | via "bootaddr" environment variable. To check where the bootline should be | |
47 | for a specific board, go to the VxWorks BSP for that board, and look for a | |
48 | parameter called BOOT_LINE_ADRS. Assign its value to "bootaddr". A typical | |
49 | value for "bootaddr" is 0x101200. | |
50 | ||
51 | If a "bootargs" variable is defined, its content will be copied to the memory | |
52 | location pointed by "bootaddr" as the kernel bootline. If "bootargs" is not | |
53 | there, command 'bootvx' can construct a valid bootline using the following | |
54 | environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask, serverip, | |
55 | gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs. | |
56 | ||
57 | When using 'bootm', just define "bootargs" in the environment and U-Boot will | |
58 | handle bootline fix up for the kernel dtb automatically. | |
59 | ||
60 | Serial console | |
61 | -------------- | |
62 | It's very common that VxWorks BSPs configure a different baud rate for the | |
63 | serial console from what is being used by U-Boot. For example, VxWorks tends | |
64 | to use 9600 as the default baud rate on all x86 BSPs while U-Boot uses 115200. | |
65 | Please configure both U-Boot and VxWorks to use the same baud rate, or it may | |
66 | look like VxWorks hangs somewhere as nothing outputs on the serial console. | |
67 | ||
68 | x86-specific information | |
69 | ------------------------ | |
70 | Before loading an x86 kernel, two additional environment variables need to be | |
71 | provided. They are "e820data" and "e820info", which represent the address of | |
72 | E820 table and E820 information (defined by VxWorks) in system memory. | |
73 | ||
74 | Check VxWorks kernel configuration to look for BIOS_E820_DATA_START and | |
75 | BIOS_E820_INFO_START, and assign their values to "e820data" and "e820info" | |
76 | accordingly. If neither of these two are supplied, U-Boot assumes a default | |
77 | location at 0x4000 for "e820data" and 0x4a00 for "e820info". Typical values | |
78 | for "e820data" and "e820info" are 0x104000 and 0x104a00. But there is one | |
79 | exception on Intel Galileo, where "e820data" and "e820info" should be left | |
80 | unset, which assume the default location for VxWorks. | |
81 | ||
82 | Note since currently U-Boot does not support ACPI yet, VxWorks kernel must | |
83 | be configured to use MP table and virtual wire interrupt mode. This requires | |
84 | INCLUDE_MPTABLE_BOOT_OP and INCLUDE_VIRTUAL_WIRE_MODE to be included in a | |
85 | VxWorks kernel configuration. |