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<title>Kbuild: Always use $(PHASE_)</title>
<updated>2025-04-11T18:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T22:55:23+00:00</published>
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It is confusing to have both "$(PHASE_)" and "$(XPL_)" be used in our
Makefiles as part of the macros to determine when to do something in our
Makefiles based on what phase of the build we are in. For consistency,
bring this down to a single macro and use "$(PHASE_)" only.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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It is confusing to have both "$(PHASE_)" and "$(XPL_)" be used in our
Makefiles as part of the macros to determine when to do something in our
Makefiles based on what phase of the build we are in. For consistency,
bring this down to a single macro and use "$(PHASE_)" only.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blkmap: pass information on ISO image to the OS</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T11:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sughosh Ganu</name>
<email>sughosh.ganu@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-17T08:34:02+00:00</published>
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The EFI HTTP boot puts the ISO installer image at some location in
memory. Information about this image has to be passed on to the OS
kernel, which is done by adding a persistent memory(pmem) node to the
devicetree(DT) that is passed to the OS. The OS kernel then gets
information about the presence of this ISO image and proceeds with the
installation.

In U-Boot, this ISO image gets mounted as a memory mapped blkmap
device slice, with the 'preserve' attribute. Add a helper function
which iterates through all such slices, and invokes a callback. The
callback adds the pmem node to the DT and removes the corresponding
memory region from the EFI memory map. Invoke this helper function as
part of the DT fixup which happens before booting the OS.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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The EFI HTTP boot puts the ISO installer image at some location in
memory. Information about this image has to be passed on to the OS
kernel, which is done by adding a persistent memory(pmem) node to the
devicetree(DT) that is passed to the OS. The OS kernel then gets
information about the presence of this ISO image and proceeds with the
installation.

In U-Boot, this ISO image gets mounted as a memory mapped blkmap
device slice, with the 'preserve' attribute. Add a helper function
which iterates through all such slices, and invokes a callback. The
callback adds the pmem node to the DT and removes the corresponding
memory region from the EFI memory map. Invoke this helper function as
part of the DT fixup which happens before booting the OS.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>blkmap: add an attribute to preserve the mem mapping</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T11:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sughosh Ganu</name>
<email>sughosh.ganu@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-17T08:34:01+00:00</published>
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Some blkmap memory mapped devices might have to be relevant even
after U-Boot passes control to the next image as part of the platform
boot. An example of such a mapping would be an OS installer ISO image,
information for which has to be provided to the OS kernel. Use the
'preserve' attribute for such mappings. The code for adding a pmem
node to the device-tree then checks if this attribute is set, and adds
a node only for mappings which have this attribute.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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Some blkmap memory mapped devices might have to be relevant even
after U-Boot passes control to the next image as part of the platform
boot. An example of such a mapping would be an OS installer ISO image,
information for which has to be provided to the OS kernel. Use the
'preserve' attribute for such mappings. The code for adding a pmem
node to the device-tree then checks if this attribute is set, and adds
a node only for mappings which have this attribute.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blkmap: store type of blkmap slice in corresponding structure</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T11:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sughosh Ganu</name>
<email>sughosh.ganu@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-17T08:34:00+00:00</published>
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Add information about the type of blkmap slices as an attribute in the
corresponding slice structure. Put information in the blkmap slice
structure to identify if it is associated with a memory or linear
mapped device. Which can then be used to take specific action based on
the type of the blkmap slice.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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Add information about the type of blkmap slices as an attribute in the
corresponding slice structure. Put information in the blkmap slice
structure to identify if it is associated with a memory or linear
mapped device. Which can then be used to take specific action based on
the type of the blkmap slice.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace Maximumm with Maximum in Kconfig symbol description</title>
<updated>2025-01-24T20:15:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Vasut</name>
<email>marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-21T15:36:11+00:00</published>
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Replace Maximumm with Maximum in Kconfig symbol description, fix a typo.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
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Replace Maximumm with Maximum in Kconfig symbol description, fix a typo.
No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blk: Make block subsystems select BLK</title>
<updated>2025-01-21T01:26:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T01:22:11+00:00</published>
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The BLK symbol has a few meanings, one of which is that it controls the
driver model portion of a "block device". Rather than having this hidden
symbol be "default y if ..." it should be select'd by the various block
subsystems. Symbols such as PVBLOCK which already select'd BLK are
unchanged".

Reviewed-by: Peter Robinson &lt;pbrobinson@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz &lt;quentin.schulz@cherry.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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The BLK symbol has a few meanings, one of which is that it controls the
driver model portion of a "block device". Rather than having this hidden
symbol be "default y if ..." it should be select'd by the various block
subsystems. Symbols such as PVBLOCK which already select'd BLK are
unchanged".

Reviewed-by: Peter Robinson &lt;pbrobinson@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz &lt;quentin.schulz@cherry.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: make blk_create_device() static</title>
<updated>2024-10-24T17:20:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinrich Schuchardt</name>
<email>heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-18T01:30:15+00:00</published>
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There are no users of the blk_create_device() function outside the uclass.
Let's make it static. This will ensure that new block drivers will use
blk_create_devicef().

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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There are no users of the blk_create_device() function outside the uclass.
Let's make it static. This will ensure that new block drivers will use
blk_create_devicef().

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rockchip: block: simplify rkmtd driver</title>
<updated>2024-10-24T17:20:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinrich Schuchardt</name>
<email>heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-18T01:30:13+00:00</published>
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By using blk_create_devicef() instead of blk_create_devicef() the driver
can be simplified and brought into line with other block device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Johan Jonker &lt;jbx6244@gmail.com&gt;
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By using blk_create_devicef() instead of blk_create_devicef() the driver
can be simplified and brought into line with other block device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Johan Jonker &lt;jbx6244@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge patch series "Tidy up use of 'SPL' and CONFIG_SPL_BUILD"</title>
<updated>2024-10-11T18:23:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-11T18:23:25+00:00</published>
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Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt; says:

When the SPL build-phase was first created it was designed to solve a
particular problem (the need to init SDRAM so that U-Boot proper could
be loaded). It has since expanded to become an important part of U-Boot,
with three phases now present: TPL, VPL and SPL

Due to this history, the term 'SPL' is used to mean both a particular
phase (the one before U-Boot proper) and all the non-proper phases.
This has become confusing.

For a similar reason CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is set to 'y' for all 'SPL'
phases, not just SPL. So code which can only be compiled for actual SPL,
for example, must use something like this:

   #if defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) &amp;&amp; !defined(CONFIG_TPL_BUILD)

In Makefiles we have similar issues. SPL_ has been used as a variable
which expands to either SPL_ or nothing, to chose between options like
CONFIG_BLK and CONFIG_SPL_BLK. When TPL appeared, a new SPL_TPL variable
was created which expanded to 'SPL_', 'TPL_' or nothing. Later it was
updated to support 'VPL_' as well.

This series starts a change in terminology and usage to resolve the
above issues:

- The word 'xPL' is used instead of 'SPL' to mean a non-proper build
- A new CONFIG_XPL_BUILD define indicates that the current build is an
  'xPL' build
- The existing CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is changed to mean SPL; it is not now
  defined for TPL and VPL phases
- The existing SPL_ Makefile variable is renamed to SPL_
- The existing SPL_TPL Makefile variable is renamed to PHASE_

It should be noted that xpl_phase() can generally be used instead of
the above CONFIGs without a code-space or run-time penalty.

This series does not attempt to convert all of U-Boot to use this new
terminology but it makes a start. In particular, renaming spl.h and
common/spl seems like a bridge too far at this point.

The series is fully bisectable. It has also been checked to ensure there
are no code-size changes on any commit.
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Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt; says:

When the SPL build-phase was first created it was designed to solve a
particular problem (the need to init SDRAM so that U-Boot proper could
be loaded). It has since expanded to become an important part of U-Boot,
with three phases now present: TPL, VPL and SPL

Due to this history, the term 'SPL' is used to mean both a particular
phase (the one before U-Boot proper) and all the non-proper phases.
This has become confusing.

For a similar reason CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is set to 'y' for all 'SPL'
phases, not just SPL. So code which can only be compiled for actual SPL,
for example, must use something like this:

   #if defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) &amp;&amp; !defined(CONFIG_TPL_BUILD)

In Makefiles we have similar issues. SPL_ has been used as a variable
which expands to either SPL_ or nothing, to chose between options like
CONFIG_BLK and CONFIG_SPL_BLK. When TPL appeared, a new SPL_TPL variable
was created which expanded to 'SPL_', 'TPL_' or nothing. Later it was
updated to support 'VPL_' as well.

This series starts a change in terminology and usage to resolve the
above issues:

- The word 'xPL' is used instead of 'SPL' to mean a non-proper build
- A new CONFIG_XPL_BUILD define indicates that the current build is an
  'xPL' build
- The existing CONFIG_SPL_BUILD is changed to mean SPL; it is not now
  defined for TPL and VPL phases
- The existing SPL_ Makefile variable is renamed to SPL_
- The existing SPL_TPL Makefile variable is renamed to PHASE_

It should be noted that xpl_phase() can generally be used instead of
the above CONFIGs without a code-space or run-time penalty.

This series does not attempt to convert all of U-Boot to use this new
terminology but it makes a start. In particular, renaming spl.h and
common/spl seems like a bridge too far at this point.

The series is fully bisectable. It has also been checked to ensure there
are no code-size changes on any commit.
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<entry>
<title>global: Rename SPL_TPL_ to PHASE_</title>
<updated>2024-10-11T17:44:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-30T01:49:54+00:00</published>
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Use PHASE_ as the symbol to select a particular XPL build. This means
that SPL_TPL_ is no-longer set.

Update the comment in bootstage to refer to this symbol, instead of
SPL_

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Use PHASE_ as the symbol to select a particular XPL build. This means
that SPL_TPL_ is no-longer set.

Update the comment in bootstage to refer to this symbol, instead of
SPL_

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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