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1*4882a593SmuzhiyunOverview of SPL on OMAP3 devices
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4*4882a593SmuzhiyunIntroduction
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7*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis document provides an overview of how SPL functions on OMAP3 (and related
8*4882a593Smuzhiyunsuch as am35x and am37x) processors.
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10*4882a593SmuzhiyunMethodology
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13*4882a593SmuzhiyunOn these platforms the ROM supports trying a sequence of boot devices.  Once
14*4882a593Smuzhiyunone has been used successfully to load SPL this information is stored in memory
15*4882a593Smuzhiyunand the location stored in a register.  We will read this to determine where to
16*4882a593Smuzhiyunread U-Boot from in turn.
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18*4882a593SmuzhiyunMemory Map
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21*4882a593SmuzhiyunThis is an example of a typical setup.  See top-level README for documentation
22*4882a593Smuzhiyunof which CONFIG variables control these values.  For a given board and the
23*4882a593Smuzhiyunamount of DRAM available to it different values may need to be used.
24*4882a593SmuzhiyunNote that the size of the SPL text rodata and data is enforced with a CONFIG
25*4882a593Smuzhiyunoption and growing over that size results in a link error.  The SPL stack
26*4882a593Smuzhiyunstarts at the top of SRAM (which is configurable) and grows downward.  The
27*4882a593Smuzhiyunspace between the top of SRAM and the enforced upper bound on the size of the
28*4882a593SmuzhiyunSPL text, data and rodata is considered the safe stack area.  Details on
29*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfirming this behavior are shown below.
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31*4882a593SmuzhiyunA portion of the system memory map looks as follows:
32*4882a593SmuzhiyunSRAM: 0x40200000 - 0x4020FFFF
33*4882a593SmuzhiyunDDR1: 0x80000000 - 0xBFFFFFFF
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35*4882a593SmuzhiyunOption 1 (SPL only):
36*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x40200800 - 0x4020BBFF: Area for SPL text, data and rodata
37*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x4020E000 - 0x4020FFFC: Area for the SPL stack.
38*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x80000000 - 0x8007FFFF: Area for the SPL BSS.
39*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x80100000: CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE of U-Boot
40*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x80208000 - 0x80307FFF: malloc() pool available to SPL.
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42*4882a593SmuzhiyunOption 2 (SPL or X-Loader):
43*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x40200800 - 0x4020BBFF: Area for SPL text, data and rodata
44*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x4020E000 - 0x4020FFFC: Area for the SPL stack.
45*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x80008000: CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE of U-Boot
46*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x87000000 - 0x8707FFFF: Area for the SPL BSS.
47*4882a593Smuzhiyun0x87080000 - 0x870FFFFF: malloc() pool available to SPL.
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49*4882a593SmuzhiyunFor the areas that reside within DDR1 they must not be used prior to s_init()
50*4882a593Smuzhiyuncompleting.  Note that CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE must be clear of the areas that SPL
51*4882a593Smuzhiyunuses while running.  This is why we have two versions of the memory map that
52*4882a593Smuzhiyunonly vary in where the BSS and malloc pool reside.
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