405LP - Beech with SSX firmware

Hollis Blanchard hollis at austin.ibm.com
Sat Dec 21 10:36:00 EST 2002


Hi, this patch (copied from Arctic) allows Beech to boot with SSX
firmware. If there's a way to detect OpenBIOS vs PIBS (I've asked for
confirmation) then I think the Beech and Arctic ifdefs could be combined
in the file. There may not be though, and in the meantime this works.

Please apply to _2_4_devel.

-Hollis
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PowerPC Linux
IBM Linux Technology Center
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===== arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c 1.20 vs edited =====
--- 1.20/arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c	Sun Dec 15 20:02:08 2002
+++ edited/arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c	Wed Dec 18 15:53:18 2002
@@ -868,12 +868,33 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BEECH
-static void
-get_board_info(bd_t **bdp)
+/* Several bootloaders have been used on Beech. We assume either
+ * SSX or OpenBIOS */
+
+#define SSX_BIOS_ADDR 		0xFFFF0000
+#define SSX_BIOS_GET_BOARD_INFO 0
+
+struct ssx_bios_id {
+	unsigned int boot_branch;	/* Branch to bootcode */
+	char ssx_bios[8];		/* "SSX BIOS" (no \0) */
+	void (*bios_entry_point)(unsigned int, bd_t *); /* Call bios_entry_point(cmd, &data) */
+};
+
+extern int memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);
+
+static void get_board_info(bd_t **bdp)
 {
-	typedef void (*PFV)(bd_t *bd);
-	((PFV)(*(unsigned long *)BOARD_INFO_VECTOR))(*bdp);
-	return;
+	struct ssx_bios_id *ssx = (struct ssx_bios_id *)SSX_BIOS_ADDR;
+
+	/* Check for SSX signature */
+
+	if (memcmp(&ssx->ssx_bios, "SSX BIOS", 8) == 0) {
+		ssx->bios_entry_point(SSX_BIOS_GET_BOARD_INFO, *bdp);
+	} else {
+		/* It's not SSX, so assume OpenBIOS */
+		typedef void (*PFV)(bd_t *bd);
+		((PFV)(*(unsigned long *)BOARD_INFO_VECTOR))(*bdp);
+	}
 }
 
 void


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