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authorAllen Martin <amartin@nvidia.com>2012-12-19 13:02:36 -0800
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'u-boot/master' into u-boot-arm-merged
Conflicts: README arch/arm/cpu/armv7/exynos/clock.c board/samsung/universal_c210/universal.c drivers/misc/Makefile drivers/power/power_fsl.c include/configs/mx35pdk.h include/configs/mx53loco.h include/configs/seaboard.h
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-rw-r--r--doc/DocBook/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--doc/README.gpt201
-rw-r--r--doc/README.mpc85xx2
-rw-r--r--doc/README.nand21
-rw-r--r--doc/README.silent14
-rw-r--r--doc/kwboot.12
6 files changed, 235 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/DocBook/Makefile b/doc/DocBook/Makefile
index da88b32..521e8bc 100644
--- a/doc/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/doc/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
-DOCBOOKS := linker_lists.xml stdio.xml
+DOCBOOKS := fs.xml linker_lists.xml stdio.xml
###
# The build process is as follows (targets):
diff --git a/doc/README.gpt b/doc/README.gpt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9c58b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/README.gpt
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics
+#
+# Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@samsung.com>
+#
+#
+# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+# project.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+# MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+
+Glossary:
+========
+- UUID -(Universally Unique Identifier)
+- GUID - (Globally Unique ID)
+- EFI - (Extensible Firmware Interface)
+- UEFI - (Unified EFI) - EFI evolution
+- GPT (GUID Partition Table) - it is the EFI standard part
+- partitions - lists of available partitions (defined at u-boot):
+ ./include/configs/{target}.h
+
+Introduction:
+=============
+This document describes the GPT partition table format and usage of
+the gpt command in u-boot.
+
+
+UUID introduction:
+====================
+
+GPT for marking disks/partitions is using the UUID. It is supposed to be a
+globally unique value. A UUID is a 16-byte (128-bit) number. The number of
+theoretically possible UUIDs is therefore about 3 x 10^38.
+More often UUID is displayed as 32 hexadecimal digits, in 5 groups,
+separated by hyphens, in the form 8-4-4-4-12 for a total of 36 characters
+(32 digits and 4 hyphens)
+
+For instance, GUID of Linux data partition: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
+
+Historically there are 5 methods to generate this number. The oldest one is
+combining machine's MAC address and timer (epoch) value.
+
+Successive versions are using MD5 hash, random numbers and SHA-1 hash. All major
+OSes and programming languages are providing libraries to compute UUID (e.g.
+uuid command line tool).
+
+GPT brief explanation:
+======================
+
+ Layout:
+ -------
+
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ LBA 0 |Protective MBR |
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ LBA 1 |Primary GPT Header | Primary
+ -------------------------------------------------- GPT
+ LBA 2 |Entry 1|Entry 2| Entry 3| Entry 4|
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ LBA 3 |Entries 5 - 128 |
+ | |
+ | |
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ LBA 34 |Partition 1 |
+ | |
+ -----------------------------------
+ |Partition 2 |
+ | |
+ -----------------------------------
+ |Partition n |
+ | |
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ LBA -34 |Entry 1|Entry 2| Entry 3| Entry 4| Secondary
+ -------------------------------------------------- (bkp)
+ LBA -33 |Entries 5 - 128 | GPT
+ | |
+ | |
+ LBA -2 | |
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ LBA -1 |Secondary GPT Header |
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+For a legacy reasons, GPT's LBA 0 sector has a MBR structure. It is called
+"protective MBR".
+Its first partition entry ID has 0xEE value, and disk software, which is not
+handling the GPT sees it as a storage device without free space.
+
+It is possible to define 128 linearly placed partition entries.
+
+"LBA -1" means the last addressable block (in the mmc subsystem:
+"dev_desc->lba - 1")
+
+Primary/Secondary GPT header:
+----------------------------
+Offset Size Description
+
+0 8 B Signature ("EFI PART", 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54)
+8 4 B Revision (For version 1.0, the value is 00 00 01 00)
+12 4 B Header size (in bytes, usually 5C 00 00 00 meaning 92 bytes)
+16 4 B CRC32 of header (0 to header size), with this field zeroed
+ during calculation
+20 4 B Reserved (ZERO);
+24 8 B Current LBA (location of this header copy)
+32 8 B Backup LBA (location of the other header copy)
+40 8 B First usable LBA for partitions (primary partition table last
+ LBA + 1)
+48 8 B Last usable LBA (secondary partition table first LBA - 1)
+56 16 B Disk GUID (also referred as UUID on UNIXes)
+72 8 B Partition entries starting LBA (always 2 in primary copy)
+80 4 B Number of partition entries
+84 4 B Size of a partition entry (usually 128)
+88 4 B CRC32 of partition array
+92 * Reserved; must be ZERO (420 bytes for a 512-byte LBA)
+
+TOTAL: 512 B
+
+
+
+IMPORTANT:
+
+GPT headers and partition entries are protected by CRC32 (the POSIX CRC32).
+
+Primary GPT header and Secondary GPT header have swapped values of "Current LBA"
+and "Backup LBA" and therefore different CRC32 check-sum.
+
+CRC32 for GPT headers (field "CRC of header") are calculated up till
+"Header size" (92), NOT 512 bytes.
+
+CRC32 for partition entries (field "CRC32 of partition array") is calculated for
+the whole array entry ( Number_of_partition_entries *
+sizeof(partition_entry_size (usually 128)))
+
+Observe, how Secondary GPT is placed in the memory. It is NOT a mirror reflect
+of the Primary.
+
+
+ Partition Entry Format:
+ ----------------------
+ Offset Size Description
+
+ 0 16 B Partition type GUID
+ 16 16 B Unique partition GUID
+ 32 8 B First LBA (Little Endian)
+ 40 8 B Last LBA (inclusive)
+ 48 8 B Attribute flags [+]
+ 56 72 B Partition name (text)
+
+ Attribute flags:
+ Bit 0 - System partition
+ Bit 60 - Read-only
+ Bit 62 - Hidden
+ Bit 63 - Not mount
+
+
+Creating GPT partitions in U-Boot:
+==============
+
+To restore GUID partition table one needs to:
+1. Define partition layout in the environment.
+ Format of partitions layout:
+ "partitions=uuid_disk=...;name=u-boot,size=60MiB,uuid=...;
+ name=kernel,size=60MiB,uuid=...;"
+ or
+ "partitions=uuid_disk=${uuid_gpt_disk};name=${uboot_name},
+ size=${uboot_size},uuid=${uboot_uuid};"
+
+ Fields 'name', 'size' and 'uuid' are mandatory for every partition.
+ The field 'start' is optional.
+
+2. Define 'CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION' and 'CONFIG_CMD_GPT'
+
+2. From u-boot prompt type:
+ gpt write mmc 0 $partitions
+
+
+Useful info:
+============
+
+Two programs, namely: 'fdisk' and 'parted' are recommended to work with GPT
+recovery. Parted is able to handle GUID partitions. Unfortunately the 'fdisk'
+hasn't got such ability.
+Please, pay attention at -l switch for parted.
+
+"uuid" program is recommended to generate UUID string. Moreover it can decode
+(-d switch) passed in UUID string. It can be used to generate partitions UUID
+passed to u-boot environment variables.
diff --git a/doc/README.mpc85xx b/doc/README.mpc85xx
index 5a4b591..f9b023f 100644
--- a/doc/README.mpc85xx
+++ b/doc/README.mpc85xx
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Major Config Switches during various boot Modes
----------------------------------------------
NOR boot
- !defined(CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT)
+ !defined(CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT) && !defined(CONFIG_SPL)
NOR boot Secure
!defined(CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT) && defined(CONFIG_SECURE_BOOT)
RAMBOOT(SD, SPI & NAND boot)
diff --git a/doc/README.nand b/doc/README.nand
index c130189..a1a511c 100644
--- a/doc/README.nand
+++ b/doc/README.nand
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ Configuration Options:
CONFIG_CMD_NAND
Enables NAND support and commmands.
+ CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE
+ Enables the torture command (see description of this command below).
+
CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ECC_JFFS2
Define this if you want the Error Correction Code information in
the out-of-band data to be formatted to match the JFFS2 file system.
@@ -213,6 +216,24 @@ Miscellaneous and testing commands:
DANGEROUS!!! Factory set bad blocks will be lost. Use only
to remove artificial bad blocks created with the "markbad" command.
+ "torture offset"
+ Torture block to determine if it is still reliable.
+ Enabled by the CONFIG_CMD_NAND_TORTURE configuration option.
+ This command returns 0 if the block is still reliable, else 1.
+ If the block is detected as unreliable, it is up to the user to decide to
+ mark this block as bad.
+ The analyzed block is put through 3 erase / write cycles (or less if the block
+ is detected as unreliable earlier).
+ This command can be used in scripts, e.g. together with the markbad command to
+ automate retries and handling of possibly newly detected bad blocks if the
+ nand write command fails.
+ It can also be used manually by users having seen some NAND errors in logs to
+ search the root cause of these errors.
+ The underlying nand_torture() function is also useful for code willing to
+ automate actions following a nand->write() error. This would e.g. be required
+ in order to program or update safely firmware to NAND, especially for the UBI
+ part of such firmware.
+
NAND locking command (for chips with active LOCKPRE pin)
diff --git a/doc/README.silent b/doc/README.silent
index a26e3df..70202ce 100644
--- a/doc/README.silent
+++ b/doc/README.silent
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
The config option CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE can be used to quiet messages
on the console. If the option has been enabled, the output can be
-silenced by setting the environment variable "silent". The variable
-is latched into the global data at an early stage in the boot process
-so deleting it with "setenv" will not take effect until the system is
-restarted.
+silenced by setting the environment variable "silent".
+
+- CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE_UPDATE_ON_SET
+ When the "silent" variable is changed with env set, the change
+ will take effect immediately.
+
+- CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE_UPDATE_ON_RELOC
+ Some environments are not available until relocation (e.g. NAND)
+ so this will make the value in the flash env take effect at
+ relocation.
The following actions are taken if "silent" is set at boot time:
diff --git a/doc/kwboot.1 b/doc/kwboot.1
index ed08398..25fe69a 100644
--- a/doc/kwboot.1
+++ b/doc/kwboot.1
@@ -79,6 +79,6 @@ Adjust the baud rate on \fITTY\fP. Default rate is 115200.
Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@gmail.com>
.br
-Luka Perkov <uboot@lukaperkov.net>
+Luka Perkov <luka@openwrt.org>
.br
David Purdy <david.c.purdy@gmail.com>