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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.
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41	There are also targets independent of CM. These may not be suitable for
42boot process c) above. They have been preserved for backward compatibility with
43existing build processes.
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45Code Hierarchy Applied :
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47Code specific to initialization of a particular ARM processor has been placed in
48cpu/arm<>/start.S so that it may be used by other boards.
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50However, to avoid duplicating code through all processor files, a generic core
51for ARM Integrator CMs has been added
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53	arch/arm/cpu/arm_intcm
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55Otherwise. for example,  the standard CM reset via the CM control register would
56need placing in each CM processor file......
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58Code specific to the initialization of the CM, rather than the cpu, and initialization
59of the Integrator board itself, has been placed in
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61	board/integrator<>/platform.S
62	board/integrator<>/integrator<>.c
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64Targets
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66The U-Boot make targets map to the available core modules as below.
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68Integrator/AP is no longer available from ARM.
69Core modules marked ** are also no longer available.
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71ap720t_config		** CM720T
72ap920t_config		** CM920T
73ap926ejs_config	Integrator Core Module for ARM926EJ-STM
74ap946es_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM946E-STM
75cp920t_config		** CM920T
76cp926ejs_config	Integrator Core Module for ARM926EJ-STM
77cp946es_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM946E-STM
78cp1136_config		Integrator Core Module ARM1136JF-S  TM
79
80The final groups of targets are for core modules where no explicit cpu
81code has yet been added to U-Boot i.e. they all use the same U-Boot binary
82using the generic "arm_intcm" core:
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84ap966_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM966E-S TM
85ap922_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM922T TM with ETM
86ap922_XA10_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM922T using Altera Excalibur
87ap7_config			** CM7TDMI
88integratorap_config
89ap_config
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92cp966_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM966E-S TM
93cp922_config			Integrator Core Module for ARM922T TM with ETM
94cp922_XA10_config		Integrator Core Module for ARM922T using Altera Excalibur
95cp1026_config			Integrator Core Module ARM1026EJ-S TM
96integratorcp_config
97cp_config
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99The Makefile targets call board/integrator<>/split_by_variant.sh
100to configure various defines in include/configs/integrator<>.h
101to indicate the core module & core configuration and ensure that
102board/integrator<>/u-boot.lds loads the cpu object first in the U-Boot image.
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104*********************************
105Because of this mechanism
106> make clean
107must be run before each change in configuration
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