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2		U-Boot for ARM Integrator Development Platforms
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4			Peter Pearse, ARM Ltd.
5			peter.pearse@arm.com
6			     www.arm.com
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8Manuals available from :-
9http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/Hardware_Platforms.html
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11Overview :
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13There are two Integrator variants - Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP.
14Each may be fitted with a variety of core modules (CMs).
15Each CM consists of a ARM processor core and associated hardware e.g
16	FPGA implementing various controllers and/or register
17	SSRAM
18	SDRAM
19	RAM controllers
20	clock generators etc.
21CMs may be fitted with varying amounts of SDRAM using a DIMM socket.
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23Boot Methods :
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25Integrator platforms can be configured to use U-Boot in at least three ways :-
26a) Run ARM boot monitor, manually run U-Boot image from flash
27b) Run ARM boot monitor, automatically run U-Boot image from flash
28c) Run U-Boot image direct from flash.
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30In cases a) and b) the ARM boot monitor will have configured the CM and mapped
31writeable memory to 0x00000000 in the Integrator address space.
32U-Boot has to carry out minimal configration before standard code is run.
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34In case c) it may be necessary for U-Boot to perform CM dependent initialization.
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36Configuring U-Boot :
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38	The makefile contains targets for Integrator platforms of both types
39fitted with all current variants of CM. If these targets are to be used with
40boot process c) above then CONFIG_INIT_CRITICAL may need to be defined to ensure
41that the CM is correctly configured.
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43	There are also targets independent of CM. These may not be suitable for
44boot process c) above. They have been preserved for backward compatibility with
45existing build processes.
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47Code Hierarchy Applied :
48----------------------
49Code specific to initialization of a particular ARM processor has been placed in
50cpu/arm<>/start.S so that it may be used by other boards.
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52However, to avoid duplicating code through all processor files, a generic core
53for ARM Integrator CMs has been added
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55	arch/arm/cpu/arm_intcm
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57Otherwise. for example,  the standard CM reset via the CM control register would
58need placing in each CM processor file......
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60Code specific to the initialization of the CM, rather than the cpu, and initialization
61of the Integrator board itself, has been placed in
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63	board/integrator<>/platform.S
64	board/integrator<>/integrator<>.c
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66Targets
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68The U-Boot make targets map to the available core modules as below.
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70Integrator/AP is no longer available from ARM.
71Core modules marked ** are also no longer available.
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73ap720t_config		** CM720T
74ap920t_config		** CM920T
75ap926ejs_config	Integrator Core Module for ARM926EJ-STM
76ap946es_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM946E-STM
77cp920t_config		** CM920T
78cp926ejs_config	Integrator Core Module for ARM926EJ-STM
79cp946es_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM946E-STM
80cp1136_config		Integrator Core Module ARM1136JF-S  TM
81
82The final groups of targets are for core modules where no explicit cpu
83code has yet been added to U-Boot i.e. they all use the same U-Boot binary
84using the generic "arm_intcm" core:
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86ap966_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM966E-S TM
87ap922_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM922T TM with ETM
88ap922_XA10_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM922T using Altera Excalibur
89ap7_config			** CM7TDMI
90integratorap_config
91ap_config
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94cp966_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM966E-S TM
95cp922_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM922T TM with ETM
96cp922_XA10_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM922T using Altera Excalibur
97cp1026_config			Integrator Core Module ARM1026EJ-S TM
98integratorcp_config
99cp_config
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101The Makefile targets call board/integrator<>/split_by_variant.sh
102to configure various defines in include/configs/integrator<>.h
103to indicate the core module & core configuration and ensure that
104board/integrator<>/u-boot.lds loads the cpu object first in the U-Boot image.
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106*********************************
107Because of this mechanism
108> make clean
109must be run before each change in configuration
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