1. 环境变量信息:
typedef struct environment_s {
unsigned long crc; /* CRC32 over data bytes */
#ifdef CFG_REDUNDAND_ENVIRONMENT
unsigned char flags; /* active/obsolete flags */
#endif
unsigned char data[ENV_SIZE]; /* Environment data */
} env_t;
2. 板子信息:
typedef struct bd_info {
int bi_baudrate; /* serial console baudrate */
unsigned long bi_ip_addr; /* IP Address */
unsigned char bi_enetaddr[6]; /* Ethernet adress */
struct environment_s *bi_env;
ulong bi_arch_number; /* unique id for this board */
ulong bi_boot_params; /* where this board expects params */
struct /* RAM configuration */
{
ulong start;
ulong size;
} bi_dram[CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS];
#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_ETH1
/* second onboard ethernet port */
unsigned char bi_enet1addr[6];
#endif
} bd_t;
3. 全局变量
typedef struct global_data {
bd_t *bd;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long baudrate;
unsigned long have_console; /* serial_init() was called */
unsigned long reloc_off; /* Relocation Offset */
unsigned long env_addr; /* Address of Environment struct */
unsigned long env_valid; /* Checksum of Environment valid? */
unsigned long fb_base; /* base address of frame buffer */
#ifdef CONFIG_VFD
unsigned char vfd_type; /* display type */
#endif
#if 0
unsigned long cpu_clk; /* CPU clock in Hz! */
unsigned long bus_clk;
unsigned long ram_size; /* RAM size */
unsigned long reset_status; /* reset status register at boot */
#endif
void **jt; /* jump table */
} gd_t;
声明变量:
在u-boot-1.1.6/include/asm-arm/global_data.h中定义了变量声明的宏:
#define DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR register volatile gd_t *gd asm ("r8")
这个声明告诉编译器使用寄存器r8来存储gd_t类型的指针gd,即这个定义声明了一个指针,并且指明了它的存储位置。
register表示变量放在机器的寄存器
volatile用于指定变量的值可以由外部过程异步修改。
必须在使用gd变量的文件前面用此宏声明变量,才可以使用此变量;
变量的定义:
u-boot-1.1.6/lib_arm/board.c的start_armboot函数中:
void start_armboot (void)
{
.................................
/* Pointer is writable since we allocated a register for it */
gd = (gd_t*)(_armboot_start - CFG_MALLOC_LEN - sizeof(gd_t));
/* compiler optimization barrier needed for GCC >= 3.4 */
__asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory");
memset ((void*)gd, 0, sizeof (gd_t));
gd->bd = (bd_t*)((char*)gd - sizeof(bd_t));
memset (gd->bd, 0, sizeof (bd_t));
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关于gd的存储位置,我们需要了解,uboot 的存储区间分布:见start.S代码:
relocate: /* relocate U-Boot to RAM */
adr r0, _start /* r0 <- current position of code */
ldr r1, _TEXT_BASE /* test if we run from flash or RAM */
cmp r0, r1 /* don't reloc during debug 比较r0和r1的值,判断代码运行在flash还是在SDRAM中*/
beq stack_setup /*如果r0=r1,代码运行在SDRAM中,设置栈,否则代码在FLASH中,然后把代码复制到SDRAM中*/
ldr r2, _armboot_start
ldr r3, _bss_start
sub r2, r3, r2 /* r2 <- size of armboot, , 得到代码指令段的长度 */
add r2, r0, r2 /* r2 <- source end address, r2保存FLASH中代码段的结束地址 */
//复制flash中的代码到SDRAM中
copy_loop:
ldmia r0!, {r3-r10} /* copy from source address [r0] 从flash中读取代码段的内容 */
stmia r1!, {r3-r10} /* copy to target address [r1] R1保存SDRAM中,代码运行的开始位置, */
cmp r0, r2 /* until source end addreee [r2] */
ble copy_loop
#endif /* CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT */
/* Set up the stack */
stack_setup:
ldr r0, _TEXT_BASE /* upper 128 KiB: relocated uboot */
sub r0, r0, #CFG_MALLOC_LEN /* malloc area 代码段的前面为系统分配内存空间的区域 */
sub r0, r0, #CFG_GBL_DATA_SIZE /* bdinfo 分配内存空间的区域的前面,为全局变量中bdinfo的信息存储区*/
#ifdef CONFIG_USE_IRQ
sub r0, r0, #(CONFIG_STACKSIZE_IRQ+CONFIG_STACKSIZE_FIQ) /*中断和快速中断的栈区*/
#endif
sub sp, r0, #12 /* leave 3 words for abort-stack 异常堆栈 */
clear_bss:
ldr r0, _bss_start /* find start of bss segment */
ldr r1, _bss_end /* stop here */
mov r2, #0x00000000 /* clear */
clbss_l:str r2, [r0] /* clear loop... */
add r0, r0, #4
cmp r0, r1
ble clbss_l
由上面的分析可以画出,uboot对内存空间的分配情况,如下图所示:
从上面的图,可以看出gd全局变量的位置,得到它的地址也就很简单了!从上面的代码可以看出,bd指针变量,应该指向gd的下半部。