分类: 嵌入式
2013-10-30 11:04:31
ntroduction:
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The idea is to build a mini u-boot(same as UBL in Davinci?) out of the u-boot tree that fits into SoC's internal SRAM (<=64K) and bootloads the real u-boot into the SDRAM, then the real u-boot will load the kernel into the SDRAM and boot it. :-).
Such a mini u-boot is typically called SPL(Second Program Loader) in u-boot terminology.
Duty of SPL:
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1> Basic ARM initialization
2> UART console initialization
3> Clocks and DPLL locking (minimal)
4> SDRAM initialization
5> Mux (minimal)
6> BootDevice initialization(based on where we are booting from.MMC1/MMC2/Nand/Onenand)
7> Bootloading real u-boot from the BootDevice and passing control to it.
BTW:
TI's X-loader is just one implemention of SPL out of the u-boot tree, And it depends on the u-boot source tree. same framework with u-boot. The u-boot guys will implement their own SPL in the tree. and then our system will boot without x-loader's help. :-)
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