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Commit 261d2760 authored by Darwin Rambo's avatar Darwin Rambo Committed by Albert ARIBAUD
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arm: Add support for semihosting for armv8 fastmodel targets.


The armv8 ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) can be used to load various ATF
images and u-boot, and does this for virtual platforms by using
semihosting. This commit extends this idea by allowing u-boot to also
use semihosting to load the kernel/ramdisk/dtb. This eliminates the need
for a bootwrapper and produces a more realistic boot sequence with
virtual models.

Though the semihosting code is quite generic, support for armv7 in
fastmodel is less useful due to the wide range of available silicon
and the lack of a free armv7 fastmodel, so this change contains an
untested armv7 placeholder for the service trap opcode.

Please refer to doc/README.semihosting for a more detailed description
of semihosting and how it is used with the armv8 virtual platforms.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDarwin Rambo <drambo@broadcom.com>
Cc: trini@ti.com
Cc: fenghua@phytium.com.cn
Cc: bhupesh.sharma@freescale.com
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