[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] arm: mvebu: Add DB-XC3-24G4XG board

Chris Packham judge.packham at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 10:16:24 UTC 2019


On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:35 PM Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 11.04.19 10:21, Chris Packham wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 7:23 PM Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 6:46 PM Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Chris,
> >>>
> >>> On 15.02.19 23:49, Chris Packham wrote:
> >>>> From: Chris Packham <chris.packham at alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> >>>>
> >>>> The DB-XC3-24G4XG is a switch development board from Marvell. It can
> >>>> either use and external CPU card such as the db-88f6820-amc or the
> >>>> internal CPU that is integrated into the switch.
> >>>>
> >>>> Add support for running U-Boot on the internal CPU and enable the USB,
> >>>> SPI and NAND peripherals. For now this needs the bin_hdr from the
> >>>> Marvell U-Boot for this board.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Compiling this with buildman (Travis) leads to this error:
> >>>
> >>>          arm:  +   db-xc3-24g4xg
> >>> +Didn't find the file 'board/Marvell/db-xc3-24g4xg/binary.0' in '/home/stefan/git/u-boot/.bm-work/00/build' which is mandatory to generate the image
> >>> +This file generally contains the DDR3 training code, and should be extracted from an existing bootable
> >>> +image for your board. See 'kwbimage -x' to extract it from an existing image.
> >>> +Could not create image
> >>> +make[1]: *** [u-boot.kwb] Error 1
> >>> +make[1]: *** Deleting file 'u-boot.kwb'
> >>>
> >>> The external build output directory seems to be the problem here.
> >>> Could you please look into this?
> >>
> >> Yep I'll take a look.
> >
> > There are a two options
> >
> > 1. Add a rule to copy the binary blob to the output directory
> >    $(obj)/binary.0: $(src}/binary.0
> >            cp $^ $@
>
> This would be in the board directory, right?
>
> > 2. Set CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET to u-boot.bin
> >
> > Option 1 suits me because I have the required binary blob from
> > Marvell's tree. Option 2 would work for the compile tests and for
> > anyone chain loading the upstream u-boot.
> >
> > Any preferences?
>
> If 1 suits you better, then I don't object. Please continue this
> way.

I couldn't get the original option 1 to work due to the circular
dependency. But option #3 is to generate the kwbimage.cfg adjusting
the path as needed. I'll send a v3 shortly.


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