linux-stable.git/arch/mips/boot, branch v3.12

MIPS: Fix invalid symbolic link file

2013-09-19T15:04:35+00:00

Commit 3b29aa5ba204c [MIPS: add  symlink] created a symlink
file in include/dt-bindings.  Even though commit diff is fine, the symlink
is invalid and ls -lb shows a newline character at the end of the filename:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 maddy maddy 35 Sep 19 18:11 dt-bindings ->
../../../../../include/dt-bindings\n

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: steven.hill@imgtec.com
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz
Cc: swarren@nvidia.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5859/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Add uImage build target

2013-09-03T16:00:01+00:00

Add a uImage build target for MIPS, which builds uImage.gz (a U-Boot
image of vmlinux.bin.gz), and then symlinks it to uImage. This allows
for the use of other compression algorithms in future, and is how a few
other architectures do it.

It's enabled conditionally on load-y >= 0xffffffff80000000 which
hopefully allows 64bit kernels to also work as long as the load and
entry address can be represented by the 32bit addresses in the U-Boot
image format.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5795/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Refactor load/entry address calculations

2013-09-03T15:58:37+00:00

The vmlinux load address and entry address is calculated in multiple
places:
 - arch/mips/Makefile defines load-y from CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START (or
   defined by the platform) and passes it to
   arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile.
 - arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile calculates kernel entry using nm.
 - arch/mips/lasat/image/Makefile calculates both load and entry address
   using nm.

Lets combine these in the main Makefile and then pass them as Make
parameters to each of the three boot image Makefiles (in boot/,
boot/compressed, lasat/image/). The boot/ Makefile doesn't currently use
them, but will soon need to for U-Boot image targets.

The existing load-y definition is used in preference to calculating the
load address using nm.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Florian Fainelli 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5794/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: add symlink

2013-09-03T15:08:40+00:00

Add symlink to include/dt-bindings from arch/mips/boot/dts/include/ to
match the ones in ARM and Meta architectures so that preprocessed device
tree files can include various useful constant definitions.

See commit c58299a (kbuild: create an "include chroot" for DT bindings)
merged in v3.10-rc1 for details.

MIPS structures it's dts files a little differently to other
architectures, having a separate dts directory for each SoC/platform,
but most of the definitions in the dt-bindings/ directory are common so
for now lets just have a single "include chroot" for all MIPS platforms.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan 
Reviewed-by: Steven. J. Hill 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: Shawn Guo 
Cc: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Pawel Moll 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Stephen Warren 
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5745/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Boot: Compressed: Remove -fstack-protector from CFLAGS

2013-07-01T13:10:41+00:00

When building with -fstack-protector, gcc emits the __stack_chk_guard and
__stack_chk_fail symbols to check for stack stability. These symbols are
defined in vmlinux but the generated vmlinux.bin that is used to create
the compressed vmlinuz image has no symbol table so the linker can't find
these symbols during the final linking phase.  As a result of which, we
need either to redefine these symbols just for the compressed image or drop
the -fstack-protector option when building the compressed image. This patch
implements the latter of two options.

Fixes the following linking problem:

dbg.c:(.text+0x7c): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0x80): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_guard'
dbg.c:(.text+0xec): undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

[ralf@linux-mips.org: I'm applying this before the patch that actually adds
stack protector support for MIPS.  This means, it will not be possible
to trigger above error message with any commit from the tree but rather
they are what one would hit without this commit.]

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Markos Chandras 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5575/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Netlogic: Support compressed kernel

2013-06-13T15:46:41+00:00

Add SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT and SYS_SUPPORTS_ZBOOT_UART16550 config options
for XLR and XLP.

Update boot/compressed/uart-16550.c to add UART port for XLR and XLP.

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5417/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: boot: Fixes for compressed/uart-16550.c

2013-06-13T15:46:41+00:00

Fix uart-16550.c for adding XLR/XLP support, changes are:
* Make register read/write use volatile pointers
* Support 32 bit IO read/write
* Increase timeout in waiting for UART LSR

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5416/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Whitespace cleanup.

2013-02-01T09:00:22+00:00

Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Alchemy: Single kernel for DB1200/1300/1550

2012-10-11T09:11:20+00:00

Combine support for the DB1200/PB1200, DB1300 and DB1550 boards into
a single kernel image.

defconfig-generated image verified on DB1200, DB1300 and DB1550.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4335/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Enable vmlinuz for JZ4740

2012-07-23T12:56:21+00:00

This patch adds support for building a compressed kernel for the JZ4740
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen 
Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne 
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3563/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle