[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/3] arm:at91: enable ROM loadable atmel image

Andreas Bießmann andreas.devel at googlemail.com
Fri May 16 11:59:14 CEST 2014


For sama5d3xek we need to modify the SPL image for correct detection by ROM
code.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel at googlemail.com>
---

Changes in v2:
* add -n switch to mkimage for PMECC type NAND and CONFIG_SYS_NANDFLASH

 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/at91/config.mk |   10 ++++++++++
 doc/README.atmel_pmecc            |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 spl/Makefile                      |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/at91/config.mk

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/at91/config.mk b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/at91/config.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09eab70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/at91/config.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014, Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel at googlemail.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+#
+ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
+ALL-y	+= boot.bin
+else
+ALL-y	+= u-boot.img
+endif
diff --git a/doc/README.atmel_pmecc b/doc/README.atmel_pmecc
index cf8373b..5a93123 100644
--- a/doc/README.atmel_pmecc
+++ b/doc/README.atmel_pmecc
@@ -27,3 +27,33 @@ Take AT91SAM9X5EK as an example, the board definition file likes:
 #define CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HW_PMECC	1
 #define CONFIG_PMECC_CAP		2
 #define CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE	512
+
+How to enable PMECC header for direct programmable boot.bin
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+2014-05-15 Andreas Bießmann <andreas.devel at googlemail.com>
+
+The usual way to program SPL into NAND flash is to use the SAM-BA Atmel tool.
+This however is often not usable when doing field updates. To be able to
+program a SPL binary into NAND flash we need to add the PMECC header to the
+binary before. Chapter '12.4.4.1 NAND Flash Boot: NAND Flash Detection' in
+sama5d3 SoC spec (as of 03. April 2014). We have a new image type added to
+mkimage to generate this PMECC header and integrated into the build process of
+SPL.
+The required parameters in board configuration header are as follows:
+
+This example is working for sama5d3xek:
+
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_USE_PMECC	1
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SECTOR_PER_PAGE	4
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SECTOR_SIZE	CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SPARE_SIZE	64
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_ECC_BITS		CONFIG_PMECC_CAP
+#define CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_ECC_OFFSET	36
+
+It enables the PMECC hardware and set the relevant parameters as known from
+the SAM-BA tool. We are able to use other defined values here cause we check
+these values in the buildsystem. Therefore the CONFIG_PMECC_SECTOR_SIZE is
+expanded to the correct value set some lines above.
+
+The mkimage image type atmelimage also set the 6'th interrupt vector to the
+correct value. This feature can also be used to setup a boot.bin for MMC boot.
diff --git a/spl/Makefile b/spl/Makefile
index 55500fd..8c6397e 100644
--- a/spl/Makefile
+++ b/spl/Makefile
@@ -183,6 +183,24 @@ MKIMAGEFLAGS_MLO.byteswap = -T omapimage -n byteswap -a $(CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE)
 MLO MLO.byteswap: $(obj)/u-boot-spl.bin
 	$(call if_changed,mkimage)
 
+ATMEL_NAND_HEADER = usePmecc=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_USE_PMECC), \
+	sectorPerPage=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SECTOR_PER_PAGE), \
+	sectorSize=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SECTOR_SIZE), \
+	spareSize=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_SPARE_SIZE), \
+	eccBits=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_ECC_BITS), \
+	eccOffset=$(CONFIG_SPL_AT91_HEADER_ECC_OFFSET)
+
+MKIMAGEFLAGS_boot.bin = -T atmelimage
+
+ifdef CONFIG_ATMEL_NAND_HW_PMECC
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_SYS_USE_NANDFLASH),y)
+MKIMAGEFLAGS_boot.bin += -n $(subst $(space),,$(ATMEL_NAND_HEADER))
+endif
+endif
+
+boot.bin: $(obj)/u-boot-spl.bin
+	$(call if_changed,mkimage)
+
 ALL-y	+= $(obj)/$(SPL_BIN).bin
 
 ifdef CONFIG_SAMSUNG
-- 
1.7.10.4



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