[U-Boot] Building u-boot.rom for Minnowboard

[Bin Meng]

Hi Saket,

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> If you can have a look at  this issue.
>
> I am currently stuck on this issue with u-boot.rom not giving me any
> output on the serial.
>
> When I am flashing MinnowBoard.MAX.X64.080.D01.bin I get the all the
> UEFI prompt and the booting messages but when I flash u-boot.rom, I do
> not get anything on the serial port.
>
> Let me know if I am missing out something in the build process of u-boot.rom
>
> While running the following commands, I seem to get the errors-
>
>>> c) ./tools/ifdtool -x BayleyBay/SPI.bin
>>> root at saket-HP-PC:# /u-boot-x86/tools/ifdtool -x BayleyBay/SPI.bin
>>>   Flash Region 0 (Flash Descriptor): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>>   Flash Region 1 (BIOS): 00500000 - 007fffff
>>>   Flash Region 2 (Intel ME): 00001000 - 004fffff
>>>   Flash Region 3 (GbE): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>>> Error while writing: Bad address
>>>   Flash Region 4 (Platform Data): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>>> Error while writing: Bad address
>
> AND
>
>>
>>> a)./tools/ifdtool -x MNW2MAX1.X64.0073.R02.1409160934.bin
>>> root at saket-PC:# /u-boot-x86/tools/ifdtool -x
>>> MNW2MAX1.X64.0073.R02.1409160934.bin
>>>   Flash Region 0 (Flash Descriptor): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>>   Flash Region 1 (BIOS): 00500000 - 007fffff
>>>   Flash Region 2 (Intel ME): 00001000 - 004fffff
>>>   Flash Region 3 (GbE): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>>   Flash Region 4 (Platform Data): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>>> Error while writing: Bad address
>>>
>
>
> These may be the reason for the u-boot.rom not getting built properly.
>
> I have  described the entire build process for u-boot.rom int my
> previous mail below -
>
>>
>> I am building u-boot.rom for MinnowboardMax as per the steps mentioned
>> in the README.x86.
>>
>> 1. Downloading BAY_TRAIL_FSP_KIT_GOLD3.tgz
>>
>> a) copying BAYTRAIL_FSP_GOLD_003_16-SEP-2014.fd  as
>> board/intel/minnowmax/fsp.bin
>>
>> b) copying Vga.dat as board/intel/minnowmax/vga.bin
>>
>> c) ./tools/ifdtool -x BayleyBay/SPI.bin
>>
>> From the generted files, copying flashregion_2_intel_me.bin as
>> board/intel/minnowmax/me.bin
>>
>> Though the o/p files are generated, I get the following error  after
>> this command -
>> root at saket-HP-PC:# /u-boot-x86/tools/ifdtool -x BayleyBay/SPI.bin
>>   Flash Region 0 (Flash Descriptor): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>   Flash Region 1 (BIOS): 00500000 - 007fffff
>>   Flash Region 2 (Intel ME): 00001000 - 004fffff
>>   Flash Region 3 (GbE): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>> Error while writing: Bad address
>>   Flash Region 4 (Platform Data): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>> Error while writing: Bad address

I've seen this error before. It is a bug of the ifdtool, but I think
it can be ignored. I have a patch sent out. Please check
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/478590/

>>
>> 2. Downloading 2014-WW42.4-MinnowBoardMax.73-64-bit.bin_Release.zip
>>
>> a)./tools/ifdtool -x MNW2MAX1.X64.0073.R02.1409160934.bin
>> From the generted files, copying flashregion_0_flashdescriptor.bin  as
>> board/intel/minnowmax/descriptor.bin
>>
>> Though the o/p files are generated, I get the following error  after
>> this command -
>> root at saket-PC:# /u-boot-x86/tools/ifdtool -x
>> MNW2MAX1.X64.0073.R02.1409160934.bin
>>   Flash Region 0 (Flash Descriptor): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>   Flash Region 1 (BIOS): 00500000 - 007fffff
>>   Flash Region 2 (Intel ME): 00001000 - 004fffff
>>   Flash Region 3 (GbE): 00000000 - 00000fff
>>   Flash Region 4 (Platform Data): 00fff000 - 00000fff (unused)
>> Error while writing: Bad address
>>
>> 3. Building u-boot.rom
>>  export BUILD_ROM=y
>>  make minnowmax_defconfig
>>  make all
>>

Looks that your instructions are correct according to README.x86

>> 4. Flashing u-boot.rom to Minnowmax by desiprog sf100
>>  ./flashrom -p dediprog -w u-boot.rom
>>

Can you confirm that you have setup the flashrom tool correctly? I
don't use flashrom on Linux as I normally do the SPI flash programming
on a Windows machine. Can you dump the whole SPI flash image back
after you program the u-boot.rom and compare the dumped file with the
u-boot.rom you generated to see whether they are exactly the same?

>> 5. Now when I am powering Minnowmax and collecting the output on serial -
>> Nothing appears.
>>
>> Kindly let me know, if I am missing something here.
>>

Sorry but I don't have a MinnowMax board here, so cannot try it on my side.

Regards,
Bin