From: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>, "Peter Delevoryas" <pdel@fb.com>
Cc: "qemu-arm@nongnu.org" <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>,
Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
Cameron Esfahani via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Select console UART from machine
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:53:10 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3d43c7a-1f37-4489-a07b-bf561e4e36a1@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547b5f32-0858-1882-fb8b-c60056cdbfd4@kaod.org>
Hi Cédric, Peter,
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, at 20:09, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 8/28/21 5:58 PM, Peter Delevoryas wrote:
> > I think I’m a little confused on this part. What I meant by “most machines just use UART5” was that most DTS’s use “stdout-path=&uart5”, but fuji uses “stdout-path=&uart1”. I /do/ see that SCU510 includes a bit related to UART, but it’s for disabling booting from UART1 and UART5. I just care about the console aspect, not booting.
>
> The UART can be switched with SCU70[29] on the AST2500, btw.
If it helps, neither the AST2600's "Boot from UART" feature nor the
AST2[456]00's "Debug UART" feature are related to which UART is used as
the BMC console by u-boot and/or the kernel - the latter is entirely a
software thing.
The "Debug UART" is a hardware backdoor, a UART-to-AHB bridge
implemented by the SoC. It provides a shell environment that allows you
to issue transactions directly on the AHB if you perform a magic knock.
I have a driver for it implemented here:
https://github.com/amboar/cve-2019-6260/blob/master/src/debug.c
SCU70[29] on the AST2500 selects whether this backdoor is exposed on
UART1 or UART5.
The "Boot from UART" feature is implemented in the AST2600 ROM code as
a fallback for loading the SPL if fetching it from SPI-NOR or the eMMC
fails, or the SPL is incorrectly signed for secure-boot.
I think Peter is on the right track with this patch?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-31 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 21:04 [PATCH 0/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Add fuji machine type pdel
2021-08-27 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Add get_irq to AspeedSoCClass pdel
2021-08-28 0:30 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-28 8:27 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-27 21:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Select console UART from machine pdel
2021-08-28 8:25 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-28 15:58 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-31 8:15 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-31 13:51 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-31 14:06 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-31 10:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-31 11:23 ` Andrew Jeffery [this message]
2021-08-31 13:34 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-31 14:07 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-31 15:57 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-31 16:37 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-27 21:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Add fuji machine type pdel
2021-08-28 8:28 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-28 16:00 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-31 16:00 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-08-31 16:38 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-27 21:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Fix AST2600_CLK_SEL3 address pdel
2021-08-28 8:15 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-08-28 15:13 ` Peter Delevoryas
2021-08-27 21:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] hw/arm/aspeed: Initialize AST2600 clock selection registers pdel
2021-08-28 8:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
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