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    arm: Add support for semihosting for armv8 fastmodel targets. · 261d2760
    Darwin Rambo authored
    
    
    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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