It's often useful to get some information about a barebox image
before starting or flashing it. This patch introduces barebox
Image MetaData (IMD). When enabled a barebox image will contain
a list of tags containing the desired information. We have tags
for:
- the barebox release (2014.07.0-00160-g035de50-dirty)
- the build timestamp (#741 Mon Jul 28 15:08:54 CEST 2014)
- the board model the image is intended for
- the device tree toplevel compatible property
Also there is an additional generic key-value store which stores
parameters for which no dedicated tag exists. In this patch it
is used for the memory size an image supports.
Since there is no fixed offset in a barebox image which can be
used for storing the information, the metadata is stored somewhere
in the image and found by iterating over the image. This works
for most image types, but obviously not for SoC images which are
encoded or encrypted in some way.
There is a 'imd' tool compiled from the same sources for barebox,
for the compile host and for the target, so the metadata information
is available whereever needed.
For device tree boards the model and of_compatible tags are automatically
generated.
Example output of the imd tool for a Phytec phyFLEX image:
build: #889 Wed Jul 30 16:08:54 CEST 2014
release: 2014.07.0-00167-g6b2070d-dirty
parameter: memsize=1024
of_compatible: phytec,imx6x-pbab01 phytec,imx6dl-pfla02 fsl,imx6dl
model: Phytec phyFLEX-i.MX6 Duallite Carrier-Board
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
The FSF address has changed; The FSF site says that
address is
Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02110-1301
USA
(see http://www.fsf.org/about/contact/)
Instead of updating it each time the address changes,
just drop it completely treewide.
Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
This allows to load all the lowlevel init code, including the
uncompressor, inside SRAM and not just the bare init part. This is
useful when pbl is used as a first-stage bootloader but is loaded by an
external firmware.
Signed-off-by: David Vincent <freesilicon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
In the upcoming multi image build process we will cat images together.
To find the concatenated image we need to reliably find the end of the
current binary. This adds a dummy section at the end of a pbl binary.
Its only purpose is to mark the end of the image. The multi image
patches will add something to this section so that it doesn't get
discarded by the linker.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Since the pbl linker script can be reused by the upcoming multi image
build process move it to a common place. Also remove ENTRY() from the
linker script and instead add the -e option to the linker. This makes
the entrypoint configurable.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Sascha Hauer
Antony Pavlov
David Vincent