arm atag retrieval problem

[桥 杨]

> 在 2015年7月13日，17:40，Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> 写道：
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, QIAO YANG <yangqiao0505 at me.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I tried to retrieve atag command lines but I've got wired problems:
>> I ran a quick scan for atags, start from 0x100, and I've got an output like
>> :
>> 
>> [ATAG_CORE] flags: 0, pagesize: 0, rootdev: 0
>> [ATAG_MEM] size: 8000000, start: 0
>> [ATAG_CMDLINE] found:
>> dma.dmachans=0x7f35 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416
>> bcm2708.boardrev=0xf bcm2708.serial=0x8247b4bb smsc95xx.macaddr=B8s
>> start addr:12C
>> size : 2E616D64
>> didn't find [ATAG_NONE]
>> 
>> which told me that:
>> 1. The start address of atag cmdline is 0x12C
>> 2. The size of this tag is 0x2E616D64
>> The size of the tag is abnormal.
>> From the output, it seems that I only retrieved part of the cmdline.
> Perhaps you have messed up the field layout or somehow gotten the
> wrong field offsets?

I've verified that. 


> 
>> 
>> I've also tried to use the mailbox interface to get the cmdline. what I've
>> got is exactly the same part of string without error reponse. Even if I
>> tried to print the following characters, they are all empty.
>> I think that the atags area maybe rewritten in some way but I didn't managed
>> to figure out. What bothers me most is the length of the tag, because the
>> tag id is correct, part of the value is readable, there's no reason that the
>> data between them is incorrect. The atag area should be written by
>> videocore, who load the cmdline.txt where we can add additional lines.
>> 
>> 
>> Besides I've also got a question that how can I get the value of r2 that
>> passed by bootloader to kernel image? It should store the value of start
>> address of ATAG or the magic of device tree. What I've found in linux is
>> that there is a function like init( *param), which is called when loading
>> the kernel, and the function get the value of r2 as the parameter passed to
>> it.  I wonder how can I get this value, though by default the atag starts
>> from 0x100.
> Check in the BSP boot-up code (usually in the bsp subdirectory, start.S file).

I've found it. It use the default startup code. Is there a possibility that the default arm start.S messed up something?  This might also explain why it bugged when using uboot to load it?

> 
>> 
>> If it takes too long to implement the feature (atag, device tree ....), I've
>> got other ways to detect if a hdmi device is present and then disable/enable
>> the graphic console. If I'm allowed to pass the atag/device tree
>> implementation.
> Can you clarify this statement? What "other ways" do you mean?
> 

If no display is connected , when we query the display size , vc will return 656*416.  I'm not sure if it's acceptable to be used as a probe.


>> 
>> Best wishes.
>> 
>>