[U-Boot] tools: socfpga: image installation script

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue May 23 12:59:17 UTC 2017


On 05/23/2017 02:36 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Installing u-boot on socfpga is not trivial. Yes, it can be done with
> dd, but it is easy to make a typo and destroy a partition. Introduce a
> script that knows how to install all the copies, and actually checks
> signatures so that killing data is not trivial.
> 
> Signed-of-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>
> 
> diff --git a/tools/socfpga_install b/tools/socfpga_install
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..d02e73c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/socfpga_install
> @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/python3
> +# Copyright 2015 Pavel Machek, Denx
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
> +#
> +# Usage: sudo socfpga_install /dev/sdb3 u-boot-spl.bin u-boot-dts.img

This u-boot-spl.img and u-boot-dts.img is superseded by
u-boot-with-spl.sfp for a long time. You can just dd that to partition
0xa2 and be done with it, no need to manually do what U-Boot buildsystem
does for you.

> +import subprocess
> +import sys
> +import os
> +
> +print("install device ", sys.argv[1])
> +device = open(sys.argv[1], "r+b")
> +
> +sig = device.read(0x44)
> +if sig[0x40] != 0x41 or sig[0x41] != 0x53 or \
> +   sig[0x42] != 0x30 or sig[0x43] != 0x31:
> +    print("Do not see AS01 signature, do you have right partition?")
> +    sys.exit(1)
> +else:
> +    print("Have partition with right signature")
> +
> +spl = sys.argv[2]
> +if spl == "_":
> +    print("Skipping u-boot-spl installation")
> +else:
> +    print("u-boot-spl.bin at ", spl)
> +
> +
> +    res = subprocess.check_call(["tools/mkimage", "-T", "socfpgaimage", "-d", spl, "img.tmp"])
> +    if res != 0:
> +        print("mkimage failed.")
> +        sys.exit(1)
> +    device.seek(0)
> +
> +    spl_bin = open("img.tmp", "rb").read()
> +    if len(spl_bin) != 65536:
> +        print("Preloader image has wrong length.")
> +        sys.exit(1)
> + 
> +    device.write(spl_bin)
> +    device.write(spl_bin)
> +    device.write(spl_bin)
> +    device.write(spl_bin)
> +
> +print("u-boot.img at ", sys.argv[3])
> +uboot_bin = open(sys.argv[3], "rb").read()
> +print("Have u-boot, %d bytes" % len(uboot_bin))
> +device.seek(65536*4)
> +device.write(uboot_bin)
> +print("All done.")
> 
> 


-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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