Hi Cody

Am Samstag, den 26.06.2021, 22:01 -0700 schrieb Cody Gray:

When ELF support is disabled in the configuration (CONFIG_CMD_ELF), the arch_auxiliary_core_up() function should not check whether the specified address contains a valid ELF image. Attempting to do so by calling the valid_elf_image() function results in a linker error, since the definition for this function will not be available.

This changeset conditionally includes the ELF-related code in the i.MX auxiliary core booter logic ONLY if ELF support is enabled in the configuration (i.e., if CONFIG_CMD_ELF is defined).

If ELF support is not defined, then the logic is the same as if the image at the address was not a valid ELF image: it assumes a binary file with a vector table at the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Cody Gray cody@codygray.com

This is my first patch submission, so I appreciate your patience if I've made any mistakes. Regarding code style, there are multiple ways that the "if/else" blocks and opening braces could be formatted with respect to the preprocessor conditional statements. I made the deliberate choice to keep the number of changed lines as few as possible, and not to repeat any code, but that does mean that the indentation level is wrong if the conditionally-included blocks are not considered. This is not addressed specifically in the U-Boot code style document, and I didn't see any similar instances in the existing code files. If the maintainers would prefer a different formatting, please let me know.

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arch/arm/mach-imx/imx_bootaux.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx_bootaux.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx_bootaux.c index 30fb45d48c..a895ace9cb 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx_bootaux.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/imx_bootaux.c @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ int arch_auxiliary_core_up(u32 core_id, ulong addr) stack = *(u32 *)addr; pc = *(u32 *)(addr + 4); #else +#ifdef CONFIG_CMD_ELF

Wouldn't it make the code cleaner, if the existing `#ifdef CONFIG_IMX8M` which also excludes the elf path would be reused, e.g. with a change to:

#if !defined(CONFIG_CMD_ELF) || defined(CONFIG_IMX8M)

(or to remove the `#ifdef CONFIG_IMX8M` pattern and integrate its effects into your pre-processor pattern.)

Max

    /*
     * handling ELF64 binaries
     * isn't supported yet.

@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ int arch_auxiliary_core_up(u32 core_id, ulong addr) return CMD_RET_FAILURE;

    } else {

+#endif /* * Assume binary file with vector table at the beginning. * Cortex-M4 vector tables start with the stack pointer (SP) @@ -108,7 +110,9 @@ int arch_auxiliary_core_up(u32 core_id, ulong addr) */ stack = *(u32 *)addr; pc = *(u32 *)(addr + 4); +#ifdef CONFIG_CMD_ELF } +#endif #endif printf("## Starting auxiliary core stack = 0x%08lX, pc = 0x%08lX...\n", stack, pc);