HiSilicon bootloader copies the ramdisk itself, and marks
its memory region as protected, so we can't memcpy on it.
Even more: we also can NOT include the ramdisk into uniLoader
for it, because the kernel partition is too small.
The easiest workaround for that is just using an empty
blob/ramdisk, so it won't be copied. But it breaks
libfdt, as it doesn't know the actual ramdisk size.
Add support for compressing the uniLoader image with lz4, and while we're at it add two new Kconfig variables for setting compression tools used in the build.
All newer exynos devices with s-boot have the "feature" of placing the
android kernel at a random location in dram, specifically around
0x80000000 and 0x83000000. This made it hard to assume where we are at,
hence why we made everything as PiE (position-independent) as possible.
This, however, resulted in a lot of issues. I usually managed to get
around them with ugly hacks, but in the last 5-6 commits, with the
fixed support for armv7, everything fell apart for arm64.
So, the solution for this is to implement code at the beginning
of the bootloader that relocates it to a safe place in memory.
This is currently enabled for dreamlte, and it must be enabled
and configured for all other boards with that issue. Otherwise they
will NOT boot anymore. Boards that don't need this can keep
CONFIG_POSITION_INDEPENDENT disabled.
This actually breaks the armv7 port. It has to be revisited in the
future, since it not only is not compilable right now, but also
cannot boot linux properly. TODO
Also introduce a new C-based __memcpy_optimized that does not
cause an exception on some devices when copying the initramfs.
This issue has to be debugged further.
Signed-off-by: Ivaylo Ivanov <ivo.ivanov.ivanov1@gmail.com>
Implement 8 loglevels to use with printk:
While at it, separate the font in a new "video" directory, which
also makes space for a proper video probing implementation. Fill
in the font from 32 to 256. Scale the font to render twice as big.
Implement dynamic line length detection. Change a few things here
and there to follow the linux kernel code style. Add a nice logo.
Signed-off-by: Ivaylo Ivanov <ivo.ivanov.ivanov1@gmail.com>
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