2 When porting from old barebox the follwing steps must be taken (please complain
3 if there's something missing here ;)
6 - Most of the macros in include/configs/yourboard.h can be removed, especially
7 the CONFIG_COMMANDS section. The goal is to remove this file entirely, but
8 for now some values are still needed here. If you think some things are better
9 configured with the Kconfig system feel free to add them there.
11 - The linker script needs a new section for the initcalls. The handling of the
12 barebox command table has changed, too. (The commands are now sorted by the
13 linker instead at runtime.) To change it you need an entry like the following
14 in your linker script:
16 #include <asm-generic/barebox.lds.h>
18 __barebox_cmd_start = .;
19 .barebox_cmd : { BAREBOX_CMDS }
20 __barebox_cmd_end = .;
22 __barebox_initcalls_start = .;
23 .barebox_initcalls : { INITCALLS }
24 __barebox_initcalls_end = .;
26 - Rename your linker script to barebox.lds.S and add the following entry to the
27 Makefile to make sure the linker script is generated:
29 extra-y += barebox.lds
31 - Register the devices present in your system in the board specific .c file.
32 To see anything you have to at least register a console. In scb9328.c this
35 static struct device_d scb9328_serial_device = {
37 .map_base = IMX_UART1_BASE,
41 static int scb9328_console_init(void)
43 register_device(&scb9328_serial_device);
47 console_initcall(scb9328_console_init);
49 - For most boards you will have to register a cfi_flash device. NAND flash
52 - Call devfs_add_partition() to add an environment partition for your device:
53 devfs_add_partition("nor0", 0x40000, 0x20000, "env0");
54 This will add an area starting at 0x40000 of size 0x20000 of the device
57 - Port missing drivers. Depending on the driver this can a be rather simple
61 - Declare all functions static.
62 - in your probe function fill in a struct console_device and register it
63 with console_register()
66 - Basically do the same as with serial drivers.
67 - Identify the parts of the driver which handle the MAC address. There are
68 now two functions handling them in struct eth_device.
70 get_mac_address() retrieve the MAC address from the EEPROM if one is
71 connected. If you don't have an EEPROM just return -1.
72 set_mac_address() set the MAC address in the device. All magic previously
73 done with getenv/setenv(ethaddr) must be removed.
75 During startup barebox calls get_mac_address() to see if an EEPROM is
76 connected. If so, it calls set_mac_address() with this address. This
77 is done even if networking is not used during startup. This makes sure
78 that the MAC address is set in the device and Linux can pick it up later.
79 - There is now (the beginning of) generic phy support. When porting drivers
80 it is recommended to use it. The phy support currently only starts generic
81 autonegotiation, so if you have some fancy things to do (or have gigabit
82 ethernet) you'll have to extend the phy layer first. Although this is
83 extra work, it will pay off some day, as phy support is a great source
84 of duplicated code. see drivers/net/dm9000.c or drivers/net/fec_mpc5200.c
87 - Add a clocksource for your system. PowerPCs have a generic decrementer
88 counter, so if you have a PowerPC you have nothing to do here. On ARM
89 this is SoC dependent. See Documentation/timekeeping.txt for further
92 - Adjust start.S. On PowerPC there is at least the Problem that the relocation
93 offset is defined at compile time. It is easily possible to determine the
94 address barebox is currently starting from at runtime and thus allowing it
95 barebox to be started at any address. Look at the relocation code and replace
96 TEXT_BASE with the following calculation of the runtime address:
98 bl calc_source /* Calculate Source Address */
101 subi r4, r4, (calc_source - _start)
104 (I'm almost sure that PowerPC has a dedicated instruction for this, un-
105 fortunately I know next to nothing of PowerPC assembler, so if you have
106 a better way to archieve this, please write to the list.)
108 On PowerPC barebox now runs at the address it was linked to, so you have
109 to adjust TEXT_BASE to be in RAM. This makes the various fixup relocation
110 functions unnecessary. On PowerPC the removal of -fPIC saves around 10% of
111 binary space. It also simplifies debugging because you will see the correct
112 addresses in the objdump without doing offset calculation.
114 - On ARM most of the duplicate code under cpu/arm* is already merged into
115 arch/arm/cpu. The start.S files are missing though.