[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/20] SPL: extend FIT loading support
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Tue May 16 08:10:06 UTC 2017
Hi,
On 16/05/17 02:40, Kever Yang wrote:
> I though I have add review and test tags for the first 5 patches, anyway,
Sorry, I must have missed that. Thanks for the review and testing!
> I will add again.
>
>
> Not sure if some patches for sunxi still need to wait, can we merge patches
> for SPL/FIT first?
That is a good question.
Tom, Simon: Are you OK with these (first six) patches? Are we good to
merge them? Who will take them?
I see that "spl: add support to booting with ATF" from Kever has been
merged already, my understanding is that this series here is a
prerequisite for this?
Shall I repost the first six patches separately, rebased and with the
new tags added?
Cheers,
Andre.
> Thanks,
> - Kever
> On 04/26/2017 08:32 AM, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> Another round of smaller fixes for the SPL FIT loading series and the
>> respective patches to enable this feature on 64-bit Allwinner SoCs.
>> The README has been changed to address all 64-bit Allwinner boards and
>> has consequently been renamed to README.sunxi64. Also we can now point
>> U-Boot to the ARM Trusted Firmware build by specifying the filename in
>> the BL31 environment variable. If this is not set, we default to look
>> for bl31.bin in U-Boot's build directory.
>> The other minor fixes are detailed in the Changelog below.
>> ---
>>
>> The first five patches introduce the core of the extened SPL FIT loading
>> support, see below for a description. Patch 6 fixes a Kconfig dependency
>> to simplify the usage of this option.
>> Patches 7-10 make some room in the sunxi 64-bit SPL to allow
>> compiling in the FIT loading bits. Patch 11 and 12 let the SPL choose
>> the proper DT from the FIT image.
>> The next two patches add the infrastructure and an actual generator
>> script,
>> so the FIT image is automatically created at build time.
>> Patches 14, 15 and 16 enable the SPL FIT support for Allwinner 64-bit
>> SoCs in
>> general and for the Pine64 and OrangePi PC 2 in particular.
>> The following two patches store a DT file name in the SPL header, so
>> U-Boot can easily pick the proper DT when scanning the FIT image.
>> The idea is that this DT name should stay with the board, ideally on
>> eMMC or SPI flash. So both U-Boot and a firmware update tool could
>> identify a board, updating with compatible firmware while keeping the
>> DT name in place. Ideally a board vendor would once seed this name
>> onto on-board storage like SPI flash.
>> I kept those two patches in, as the work on replacing mksunxiboot with
>> an mkimage extension is not ready yet. Feel free to drop those from
>> the series if this is a problem.
>> The penultimate patch updates the Pine64 README file to document the
>> current
>> way of building U-Boot, which now includes the ARM Trusted Firmware build
>> in its image.
>> The last patch moves the maintainership from Hans over to me.
>>
>> I would be delighted if that series could get merged into the sunxi tree.
>> This finally enables the fully open source firmware for the 64-bit
>> Allwinner SoCs (including the ATF binary).
>>
>> This series is based on current sunxi/master.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre.
>>
>> -------
>> Currently the FIT format is not used to its full potential in the SPL:
>> It only loads the first image from the /images node and appends the
>> proper FDT.
>> Some boards and platforms would benefit from loading more images before
>> starting U-Boot proper, notably Allwinner A64 and ARMv8 Rockchip boards,
>> which use an ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) image to be executed before
>> U-Boot.
>>
>> This series tries to solve this in a board agnostic and generic way:
>> We extend the SPL FIT loading scheme to allow loading multiple images.
>> So apart from loading the image which is referenced by the "firmware"
>> property in the respective configuration node and placing the DTB right
>> behind it, we iterate over all strings in the "loadable" property.
>> Each image referenced there will be loaded to its specified load address.
>> The entry point U-Boot eventually branches to will be taken from the
>> first image to explicitly provide the "entry" property, or, if none
>> of them does so, from the load address of the "firmware" image.
>> This keeps the scheme compatible with the FIT images our Makefile creates
>> automatically at the moment.
>> Apart from the already mentioned ATF scenario this opens up more usage
>> scenarios, of which the commit message of patch 04/11 lists some.
>> The remaining patches prepare ane finally enable this scheme for the
>> 64-bit
>> Allwinner boards.
>>
>> Changelog v3 ... v4:
>> - [01/20]: return proper error codes instead of just -1 (+Simon's RB)
>> - [02/20]: improve kernel-doc comment (+Simon's RB)
>> - [03/20]: return proper error codes instead of just -1 (+Simon's RB)
>> - [04/20]: improve kernel-doc comment and error codes (+Simon's RB)
>> - [05/20]: add example .its source file (+Simon's RB)
>> - [10,11,12/20]: add Maxime's Acked-by
>> - [14/20]: add BL31 environment variable (+Maxime's Acked-by)
>> - [15/20]: drop unneeded OrangePi PC2 change
>> - [16/20]: add Maxime's Acked-by
>> - [19/20]: rewrite to be more generic, rename to README.sunxi64
>> - [20/20]: new patch to change maintainership
>>
>> Changelog v2 ... v3:
>> - new patch 06/19 to improve SPL_FIT Kconfig dependencies
>> - rename symbol in mksunxiboot (SUNXI_SRAM instead of SUN4I_SRAM)
>> - enable SPL_LOAD_FIT for all Allwinner A64 and H5 boards in Kconfig
>> - add only CONFIG_OF_LIST to defconfigs (patch 15/19)
>>
>> Changelog v1 ... v2:
>> - Add some function comments to spl_fit.c (patch 1-5)
>> - Improve error handling in SPL FIT code (patch 1-5)
>> - Fix bisectability (observing entry-point property)
>> - add documentation to doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt
>> - fix Freescale CCN504 build failure
>> - (no changes in the last 10 patches)
>> - update README.pine64 (new last patch)
>> - add Reviewed-by's from Simon and Lokesh
>>
>> --
>> Andre Przywara (19):
>> SPL: FIT: refactor FDT loading
>> SPL: FIT: rework U-Boot image loading
>> SPL: FIT: improve error handling
>> SPL: FIT: factor out spl_load_fit_image()
>> SPL: FIT: allow loading multiple images
>> Kconfig: fix SPL_FIT dependency
>> tools: mksunxiboot: allow larger SPL binaries
>> armv8: SPL: only compile GIC code if needed
>> armv8: fsl: move ccn504 code into FSL Makefile
>> sunxi: A64: move SPL stack to end of SRAM A2
>> sunxi: SPL: store RAM size in gd
>> sunxi: SPL: add FIT config selector for Pine64 boards
>> Makefile: add rules to generate SPL FIT images
>> sunxi: 64-bit SoCs: introduce FIT generator script
>> sunxi: defconfig: add supported DT list for Pine64
>> sunxi: enable automatic FIT build for 64-bit SoCs
>> sunxi: use SPL header DT name for FIT board matching
>> sunxi: update Pine64 README
>> sunxi: Move maintainership for Pine64
>>
>> Siarhei Siamashka (1):
>> sunxi: Store the device tree name in the SPL header
>>
>> Kconfig | 22 ++-
>> Makefile | 20 +++
>> arch/arm/include/asm/arch-sunxi/spl.h | 19 ++-
>> arch/arm/lib/Makefile | 4 +-
>> board/sunxi/Kconfig | 4 +
>> board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS | 6 +-
>> board/sunxi/README.pine64 | 98 -----------
>> board/sunxi/README.sunxi64 | 165 +++++++++++++++++++
>> board/sunxi/board.c | 36 +++-
>> board/sunxi/mksunxi_fit_atf.sh | 75 +++++++++
>> common/spl/spl_fit.c | 301
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>> configs/am335x_evm_defconfig | 1 -
>> configs/evb-rk3399_defconfig | 1 -
>> configs/pine64_plus_defconfig | 1 +
>> doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt | 21 +++
>> doc/uImage.FIT/multi_spl.its | 89 ++++++++++
>> include/configs/sunxi-common.h | 17 +-
>> scripts/Makefile.spl | 3 +-
>> tools/mksunxiboot.c | 53 +++++-
>> 19 files changed, 710 insertions(+), 226 deletions(-)
>> delete mode 100644 board/sunxi/README.pine64
>> create mode 100644 board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
>> create mode 100755 board/sunxi/mksunxi_fit_atf.sh
>> create mode 100644 doc/uImage.FIT/multi_spl.its
>>
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