interface open continuously instead of closing it after each filesystem
access and reopening it before the next (causing it to re-obtain network
params each time). This vastly speeds up netbooting.
static-linked to run at a fixed position, is still installed to maintain
compatibility with existing configurations. The makefile now also creates
and installs ubldr.bin, a stripped binary (no elf headers) with an entry
point offset of 0 that can be loaded by u-boot at any address and launched
with "go ${loadaddr}".
To use ubldr.bin, U-Boot must still be built with the CONFIG_API option,
but no longer needs the CONFIG_ELF option.
standard file in the following ways:
- modules_path includes /boot/dtb
- It doesn't contain 533 lines, of which 500 are either commented out,
empty, or something_which_doesnt_work_on_arm_anyway=NO
The standard defaults file takes 40+ seconds to process on an arm beaglebone
board. This one takes just a couple seconds.
This gets installed instead of the original because of the .PATH magic in
the makefile.
moving U-Boot specific code from libfdt.a to a new libuboot_fdt.a. This
needs to be a new library for linking to work correctly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1054
Reviewed by: ian, rpaulo (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
u-boot env into the loader(8) env (which also gets them into the kernel
env). You can import selected variables or the whole environment. Each
u-boot var=value becomes uboot.var=value in the loader env. You can also
use 'ubenv show' to display uboot vars without importing them.
The NAND Flash environment consists of several distinct components:
- NAND framework (drivers harness for NAND controllers and NAND chips)
- NAND simulator (NANDsim)
- NAND file system (NAND FS)
- Companion tools and utilities
- Documentation (manual pages)
This work is still experimental. Please use with caution.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation, Juniper Networks
o This is disabled by default for now, and can be enabled using WITH_FDT at
build time.
o Tested with ARM and PowerPC.
Reviewed by: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Only non-sliced bsdlabel style partitioning is currently supported (but provisions
are made towards GPT support, which should follow soon)
- Enable storage support in loader on ARM
Obtained from: Semihalf
This uses the common U-Boot support lib (sys/boot/uboot, already used on
FreeBSD/powerpc), and assumes the underlying firmware has the modern API for
stand-alone apps enabled in the config (CONFIG_API).
Only netbooting is supported at the moment.
Obtained from: Marvell, Semihalf
