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Simon Glass committed 32ba8952cb4
arm: spl: Add an API to detect when U-Boot is started from SPL For secure boot systems it is common to have a read-only U-Boot which starts the machine and jumps to a read-write U-Boot for actual booting the OS. This allows the read-write U-Boot to be upgraded without risk of permanently bricking the machine. In the event that the read-write U-Boot is corrupted, the read-only U-Boot can detect this with a checksum and boot into a recovery flow. To support this, add a way to detect when U-Boot is run from SPL as opposed to some other method, such as booted directly (no SPL) or started from another source (e.g. a primary U-Boot). This works by putting a special value in r0. For now we rely on board-specific code to actually check the register and set a flag. At some point this could be generalised, perhaps by using a spare register and passing a flag to _main and/or board_init_f(). This commit does not implement any feature, but merely provides the API for boards to implement. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>