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treewide: move bi_dram[] from bd to gd

2026-06-25T00:13:24Z

Currently, the bi_dram[] information is stored in the board info structure (bd). Because bd is only valid after reserve_board(), dram_init_banksize() must be called late in the initialization process. This limitation is problematic, as it forces us to rely on a variety of bespoke functions to determine board RAM, bank memory sizes, and other early setup requirements. By moving bi_dram[] into the global data (gd), we can run it earlier. This is particularly convenient since boards define their own dram_init_banksize() routines, which do not always rely on parsing Device Tree (DT) memory nodes. Additionally, U-Boot defaults to relocating to the top of the first memory bank. While boards currently use custom functions to override this behavior, having the DRAM bank information available earlier in gd makes relocating to a different bank trivial and standardizes the process. Reviewed-by: Anshul Dalal Tested-by: Michal Simek # Versal Gen 2 Vek385 Tested-by: Anshul Dalal Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas Tested-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)

global_data: fix type for gd_malloc_ptr()

2026-06-23T18:36:26Z

With commit 92aa3ec321b5 ("global_data: Reduce size of early-malloc vars") the type changes from (unsigned) long to int. But the type for default if SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN is unset was not changed. Remove the suffix. Fixes the warning: common/spl/spl.c:800:23: warning: format '%x' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'long int' [-Wformat=] Fixes: 92aa3ec321b5 ("global_data: Reduce size of early-malloc vars") Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein Reviewed-by: Simon Glass

memory: reserve from start_addr_sp to initial_relocaddr

2026-06-15T17:04:39Z

Add a new global data struct member called initial_relocaddr. This stores the original value of relocaddr, directly from setup_dest_addr. This is specifically to avoid any adjustments made by other init functions. Reserve the memory from gd->start_addr_sp - CONFIG_STACK_SIZE to gd->initial_relocaddr instead of gd->ram_top. This allows platform specific relocation addresses to work without unnecessarily painting over a large range. Signed-off-by: Randolph Sapp Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas

string: add strdup_const and kstrdup_const

2026-04-21T17:19:49Z

Extend Linux compat by adding kstrdup_const(), backed by lib/string.c. This leverages U-Boots .rodata section on ARM64 to avoid pointlessly duplicating const strings. This is used by the Linux CCF_FULL port and may be useful elsewhere in U-Boot. Signed-off-by: Casey Connolly

dm: Remove pre-schema tag support

2025-11-10T17:30:56Z

Support for using "u-boot,dm-..." rather than "bootph-..." has been deprecated since February 2023. Any platforms using this have had a console message saying to migrate by 2023.07. Go and remove all support here now, for the v2026.01 release. The results of this change that aren't clear from the above are that we still have a checkpatch.pl error message, and document in doc/develop/spl.rst that they have been migrated since 2023. We also change the key2dtsi.py tool to use the correct bootph phase rather than the legacy phase. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini

efi_loader: Move public cert for capsules to .rodata

2025-04-11T11:25:31Z

commit ddf67daac39d ("efi_capsule: Move signature from DTB to .rodata") was reverted in commit 47a25e81d35c ("Revert "efi_capsule: Move signature from DTB to .rodata"") because that's what U-Boot was usually doing -- using the DT to store configuration and data. Some of the discussions can be found here [0]. (Ab)using the device tree to store random data isn't ideal though. On top of that with new features introduced over the years, keeping the certificates in the DT has proven to be problematic. One of the reasons is that platforms might send U-Boot a DTB from the previous stage loader using a transfer list which won't contain the signatures since other loaders are not aware of internal U-Boot ABIs. On top of that QEMU creates the DTB on the fly, so adding the capsule certificate there does not work and requires users to dump it and re-create it injecting the public keys. Now that we have proper memory permissions for arm64, move the certificate to .rodata and read it from there. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAPnjgZ2uM=n8Qo-a=DUkx5VW5Bzp5Xy8=Wgmrw8ESqUBK00YJQ@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas Tested-by: Jonathan Humphreys # on TI sk-am62p-lp Tested-by: Neil Armstrong # on AML-A311D-CC Tested-by: Raymond Mao

membuf: Rename struct

2025-04-03T22:54:49Z

Rename the struct to match the function prefix and filenames. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass

membuff: Rename the files to membuf

2025-04-03T22:54:49Z

Rename the C and header files to use the membuf basename, to match the functions. Add a MAINTAINERS entry while we are here. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass

arm: Prepare linker scripts for memory permissions

2025-03-14T11:30:12Z

Upcoming patches are switching the memory mappings to RW, RO, RX after the U-Boot binary and its data are relocated. Add annotations in the linker scripts to and mark text, data, rodata sections and align them to a page boundary. It's worth noting that .efi_runtime memory permissions are left untouched for now. There's two problems with EFI currently. The first problem is that we bundle data, rodata and text in a single .efi_runtime section which also must be close to .text for now. As a result we also dont change the permissions for anything contained in CPUDIR/start.o. In order to fix that we have to decoule .text_rest, .text and .efi_runtime and have the runtime services on their own section with proper memory permission annotations (efi_rodata etc). The efi runtime regions (.efi_runtime_rel) can be relocated by the OS when the latter is calling SetVirtualAddressMap. Which means we have to configure those pages as RX for U-Boot but convert them to RWX just before ExitBootServices. It also needs extra code in efi_tuntime relocation code since R_AARCH64_NONE are emitted as well if we page align the section. Due to the above ignore EFI for now and fix it later once we have the rest in place. Acked-by: Jerome Forissier Tested-by: Neil Armstrong # on AML-S905X-CC Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas

spl: Provide a way to mark code needed for relocation

2025-02-03T22:01:36Z

Add a linker symbol which can be used to mark relocation code, so it can be collected by the linker and copied into a suitable place and executed when needed. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass