[U-Boot] Problems to Allwinner H3's eFUSE/SID

[Icenowy Zheng]

20.12.2016, 00:17, "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede at redhat.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 19-12-16 17:06, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>>  19.12.2016, 23:30, "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede at redhat.com>:
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>>  On 19-12-16 16:22, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>>>>   Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>   Today, I and KotCzarny on IRC of linux-sunxi found a problem in the SID
>>>>   controller of H3 (incl. H2+).
>>>>
>>>>   See https://irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2016-12-19 .
>>>>
>>>>   Two read method of the H3 eFUSE is used in the BSP: by register accessing, or
>>>>   directly access 0x01c14200.
>>>>
>>>>   From http://linux-sunxi.org/SID_Register_Guide we can see a difference between
>>>>   the H3 SIDs read out by sunxi-fel and the H3 SIDs read out by devmem2 (in
>>>>   legacy kernel).
>>>>
>>>>   According to the source of H2+ BSP[1], H2+ and H3 can be differed by the last
>>>>   byte of the first word of SID. (0x42 and 0x83 is H2+, 0x00 and 0x81 is H3,
>>>>   0x58 is H3D (currently not known SoC) )
>>>>
>>>>   However, all the SIDs retrieved by `sunxi-fel sid`, both H2+ and H3, start
>>>>   with 0x02004620, which do not match this rule.
>>>>
>>>>   The readout by devmem2 is satisfying this rule: their first word is
>>>>   0x02c00081, matches H3.
>>>>
>>>>   Then I found the SID-reading code from BSP U-Boot[2], which is based on
>>>>   register operations. With this kind of code (I wrote one prototype in
>>>>   userspace with /dev/mem), I got "02c00081 74004620 50358720 3c27048e" on
>>>>   my Orange Pi One. ("02004620 74358720 5027048e 3c0000c3" with sunxi-fel sid)
>>>>   And, after accessing to the SID by registers, the value of *0x01c14200 become
>>>>   also "02c00081".
>>>>
>>>>   With direct access to 0x01c14200 after boot with mainline kernel, I got also
>>>>   "02004620".
>>>>
>>>>   Then I altered the program to do the register operations with sunxi-fel, the
>>>>   result is also "02c00081", and changed `sunxi-fel sid` result to "02c00081".
>>>>
>>>>   Summary:
>>>>
>>>>   +-----------------------------------------------+----------------+
>>>>   | Read situation | The first word |
>>>>   +-----------------------------------------------+----------------+
>>>>   | Direct read by sunxi-fel | 02004620 |
>>>>   | Direct read in mainline /dev/mem | 02004620 |
>>>>   | Direct read in legacy /dev/mem | 02c00081 |
>>>>   | Register access in FEL | 02c00081 |
>>>>   | Register access in mainline | 02c00081 |
>>>>   | Direct read after register access in FEL | 02c00081 |
>>>>   | Direct read after register access in mainline | 02c00081 |
>>>>   +-----------------------------------------------+----------------+
>>>>
>>>>   According to some facts:
>>>>   - The register based access to SID is weird: it needs ~5 register
>>>>     operations per word of SID.
>>>>   - Reading via register access will change the value when reading by accessing
>>>>     0x01c14200.
>>>>   - In the u-boot code[2] there's some functions which read out the SID by
>>>>     registers and then abandoned the value.
>>>>   - This mismatch do not exist on A64.
>>>>
>>>>   I think that: Allwinner designed a "cache" to the SID to make the simplify the
>>>>   code to read it, and it automatically loaded the cache when booting; however,
>>>>   when doing first cache on H3, some byte shifts occured, and the value become
>>>>   wrong. A manual read on H3 can make the cache right again. This is a silicon
>>>>   bug, and fixed in A64.
>>>>
>>>>   This raises a problem: currently many systems has used the misread SID value to
>>>>   generated lots of MAC addresses, and workaround this SID bug will change them.
>>>>
>>>>   However, if this bug is not workarounded, the sun8i-ths driver won't work well
>>>>   (as some calibartion value lies in eFUSE). I think some early user of this
>>>>   driver has already experienced bad readout value.
>>>>   (The calibration value differs on my opi1 and KotCzarny's opipc)
>>>>
>>>>   And many wrong SID values have been generated by `sunxi-fel sid`. (Although I
>>>>   think sunxi-fel must have the workaround)
>>>>
>>>>   Note: in this email, "SID" and "eFUSE" both indicate the controller on H3/A64
>>>>   at 0x01c14000, which is a OTP memory implemented by eFUSE technique.
>>>>
>>>>   Furthermore, A83T may also have this problem, testers are welcome!
>>>>
>>>>   [1] http://filez.zoobab.com/allwinner/h2/201609022/lichee/linux-3.4/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/sun8i.c
>>>>   [2] http://filez.zoobab.com/allwinner/h2/201609022/lichee/brandy/u-boot-2011.09/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/sun8iw7/efuse.c
>>>>
>>>>   Experiments:
>>>>   - https://gist.github.com/Icenowy/2f4859ab1bc05814522fc7445179a8c9
>>>>     A SID readout shell script via FEL with register access.
>>>>   - https://31.135.195.151:20281/d/efuse/
>>>>     A SID readout program via /dev/mem with register access by KotCzarny.
>>>>     (with statically compiled binary)
>>>
>>>  Good detective work!
>>>
>>>  I believe this would best be fixed by making u-boot use the register access
>>>  method to get the SID on affected chips, and make sure u-boot reads the
>>>  SID at-least once.
>>
>>  Yes.
>>
>>  However, what I considered is that fixing this bug will change H3 devices'
>>  MAC addresses, as they are derived from SID.
>
> I know, but I think we will just need to accept this onetime change
> of the fixed MAC addresses to fix this bug. I don't think this is
> a big problem since the driver for the H3 ethernet has not been
> merged into the mainline kernel yet.
>
>>  Maybe we should add #ifdef's to MAC generation code after this fix.
>
> I would rather not see #ifdefs for this, see above, but that is no
> longer my call, see below.
>
>>  (This is why I will create this discussion)
>>
>>  P.S. Are you still the maintainer of sunxi boards support of u-boot? The
>>  MAINTAINER file in board/sunxi indicates this.
>
> No I'm no longer the maintainer, I'm still the MAINTAINER file because
> I have a lot of boards and as such I'm still the point of contact for
> those boards (if there are any board specific issues / questions), but
> as indicated in the main MAINTAINERS file Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>
> is the maintainer now.

But the current status of the file will indicates you are the maintainer of boards
support of sunxi.

>
> Regards,
>
> Hans