On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 12:39 PM Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 8/20/20 8:10 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 8/20/20 6:45 PM, David Abdurachmanov wrote:
> >     > +Al Stone.
> >     >
> >     > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 6:46 PM Grant Likely <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     >>
> >     >> Hi Atish,
> >     >>
> >     >> I'm happy to add RISC-V content to EBBR. EBBR was originated as a
> >     >> community driven document, and though it was created to solve
> >     problems
> >     >> in the Arm ecosystem, it is not limited to Arm platforms.
> >     >>
> >     >> g.
> >     >>
> >     >> On 20/08/2020 01:03, Atish Patra wrote:
> >     >>> Hi All,
> >     >>> We are interested in adopting EBBR as the boot specification for
> the
> >     >>> embedded RISC-V platforms.
> >     >>> We firmly believe that EBBR is a very well defined specification
> for
> >     >>> boot requirement and there
> >     >>> is no need for reinventing the wheel for RISC-V. Hence, this is a
> >     >>> thread to discuss all the requirements
> >     >>> for adding RISC-V to EBBR.  Here is my current understanding.
> Please
> >     >>> correct me if I am wrong.
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Logistic Requirement:
> >     >>> 1. As per the contribution guidelines[1], patches should be sent
> to
> >     >>> [email protected]
> >     <mailto:[email protected]>.
> >     >>>      and the specification will be hosted under "ARM-software"
> >     Github.
> >     >>> I am hoping that introducing RISC-V
> >     >>>      related changes are okay with the current maintainers.
> >     >>
> >     >> Yes, I will accept RISC-V content
> >     >>
> >     >>> 2. The specification is licensed under Creative Commons. The
> RISC-V
> >     >>> related changes will refer to
> >     >>>      some of the RISC-V specifications as well. AFAIK, there
> >     shouldn't
> >     >>> be an issue with that.
> >     >>
> >     >> Yes
> >     >>
> >     >>> 3. It should be okay to add other copyrights in addition to "Arm
> >     >>> Limited and Contributors".
> >     >>
> >     >> That statement reflects the origin of the document, and I haven't
> >     >> changed it because I did want a long list of copyright holders on
> the
> >     >> front page. Go ahead and propose changes to the formatting.
> >     >>
> >     >>> Technical Requirement:
> >     >>> 1. Software status:
> >     >>>      a. UEFI support for RISC-V Linux kernel is already
> available in
> >     >>> the mailing list[2]. The targeted upstream
> >     >>>      merge is the 5.10 merge window.
> >     >>>      b. U-Boot already supports UEFI for RISC-V.
> >     >>>      c. EDK2 upstreaming is currently under progress [3] as well.
> >     >>>
> >     >>>    Is it okay to start sending patches for EBBR RISC-V related
> >     changes
> >     >>> now or do we need to wait for EDK2 and Linux
> >     >>>    kernel patches to be available upstream ?
> >     >>
> >     >> Landing features in mainline U-Boot/Linux/EDK2/etc. is not
> >     required, but
> >     >> the general guidance on EBBR is to only require features that are
> >     >> achievable. If any feature isn't feasible in the near future,
> >     then I'd
> >     >> caution against adding it to EBBR.
> >     >>
> >     >>> 2. RISC-V related sections in EBBR
> >     >>>      a. UEFI:
> >     >>>          Currently, RISC-V doesn't support a  EFI_RESET_SYSTEM
> boot
> >     >>> service as firmware doesn't have a standard way
> >     >>>          to reset the system. There is a proposal to add a
> >     system reset
> >     >>> function to Supervisor Binary Specification(SBI) which
> >     >>>          can be mapped to EFI_RESET_SYSTEM by the firmware.
> >     Apart from
> >     >>> that, I believe RISC-V supports all UEFI boot and
> >     >>>          run time services mandated by EBBR. Is it a blocker for
> >     RISC-V
> >     >>> EBBR compatibility?
> >     >>
> >     >> Reset system if a fundamental interface. I'm not keen to relax
> this
> >     >> requirement.
> >     >
> >     > I don't expect issues adding EFI_RESET_SYSTEM for FU540 (the
> reference
> >     > platform majority of developers are using). It's basically GPIO
> active
> >     > low to reset the SoC.
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/hifive-unleashed-a00.dts#L45
> >     >
> >     > We should have GPIO support for FU540 in U-Boot thus we can do
> >     > something similar to this:
> >     >
> >
> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/cpu.c#L1248
> >     >
> >     > A small thing compared to everything else, but we probably can get
> >     > EFI_RESET_SYSTEM working for FU540.
> >     >
> >
> >     In U-Boot: CONFIG_SYSRESET=y for sifive_fu540_defconfig.
> >
> >     The device tree has
> >
> >             gpio-restart {
> >                     compatible = "gpio-restart";
> >                     gpios = <0x0c 0x0a 0x01>;
> >             };
> >
> >     Is there really anything missing for the SiFive HiFive Unleashed?
> >
> >     The following patch allows you to test if the UEFI ResetSystem()
> service
> >     is working when you compile with
> >
> >     CONFIG_EFI_LOADER=y
> >     CONFIG_EFI_SELFTEST=y
> >
> >     [1/1] efi_selftest: add a test for ResetSystem()
> >     https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2020-August/424075.html
> >
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/
> >
> >     This is the output from the Kendryte K210:
> >
> >     => setenv efi_selftest 'reset system'
> >     => bootefi selftest
> >     Found 0 disks
> >
> >     Testing EFI API implementation
> >
> >     Selected test: 'reset system'
> >
> >     Setting up 'reset system'
> >     Setting up 'reset system' succeeded
> >
> >     Executing 'reset system'
> >     resetting ...
>
> The Kendryte K210 uses
>
> CONFIG_SYSRESET=y
> CONFIG_RESET_SYSCON=y
>
> So arch/riscv/lib/reset.c is not compiled.
>
> The reset is effected in function syscon_reboot_request() using the
> register defined in the device tree by arch/riscv/dts/k210.dtsi:
>
>
Ahh I missed that. Thanks.


> reboot {
>     compatible = "syscon-reboot";
>     regmap = <&sysctl>;
>     offset = <K210_SYSCTL_SOFT_RESET>;
>     mask = <1>;
>     value = <1>;
> };
>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich
>
> >
> >
> > I don't think it actually reset the system. It just calls hang(). Is
> > there an outstanding patch in U-Boot that I don't know about ?
> >
> https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/arch/riscv/lib/reset.c#L10
> >
> >
> >     Best regards
> >
> >     Heinrich
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Atish
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Atish
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