[coreboot] [RFC] MMC support in coreboot

mrnuke mr.nuke.me at gmail.com
Sat Jan 11 01:09:46 CET 2014


On 01/10/2014 05:05 PM, Gabe Black wrote:
> It really depends on how that blob built into the SOC works. On the
> Tegra chips and on the SOC in the Beaglebone, the amount that's loaded
> depends on a data structure bundled in with the firmware. On the
> Beaglebone I told it to load enough of CBFS that it could get the ROM
> stage out of SRAM without having to talk to the boot media again.
> Anything beyond that, though, would require talking to the media. On
> Exynos the blob on the SOC loads another fixed size Samsung provided
> blob from the boot media which then loads the actual firmware. There it
> depends on how that blob works. Sometimes the blob loads a fixed size
> chunk, and sometimes it loads a variably sized blob which is described
> in a small header. I think the blobs we have in the coreboot repository
> are one of each, fixed size for the 5250 and variably sized for the 5420.
> 
Gabe, that's the perfect example. We have a different way for each chip
because "it really depends on how that blob built into the SOC works".
Is that really the case? Every time there's a new ARM SoC we have to
reinvent CBFS loading. That sounds wrong. Ron was talking about a
unified approach. I think it's time we start doing that now, before it
gets messy.

Re Exynos, the SPI code imposes an alignment of 4 bytes. It's cleverly
hidden, but that is a little block device logic nonetheless.

Alex



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