[PATCH 07/11] env: Enable SPI flash env for rockchip
Jagan Teki
jagan at amarulasolutions.com
Fri Dec 27 11:10:14 CET 2019
Hi Kever,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 3:33 PM Kever Yang <kever.yang at rock-chips.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/12/27 下午2:50, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > Hi Kever,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:04 AM Kever Yang <kever.yang at rock-chips.com> wrote:
> >> Jagan,
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2019/12/21 下午3:54, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>> Most of the SPI flash devices in rockchip are 16MiB size.
> >>>
> >>> So, keeping U-Boot proper offset start from 128MiB with 1MiB
> >>> size and then start env of 8KiB would be a compatible location
> >>> between all variants of flash sizes.
> >>>
> >>> This patch add env start from 0x14000 with a size of 8KiB.
> >> What's the space map in SPI flash suppose to be? Including
> >> tpl/spl/u-boot.itb
> >>
> >> I would prefer to use 128KiB-8KiB as the env start address, we'd better
> >> to avoid the
> >>
> >> risk of overlap between the env space and the firmware space.
> > Here is the 16MiB flash layout, I have used. I can see the loader1
> > (tpl/spl) can be possible to load at 0x0 or 0x32K so I have given the
> > space for it. and 8K env after loader2(u-boot). let me know your
> > thoughts?
> >
> > 0x0 - 0x8000, 32K => reserved/loader1
> > 0x8000 - 0x40000, 224K => loader1
> > 0x40000 - 0x140000, 1M => loader2
> > 0x140000 - 0x142000, 8K => env
> > 0x142000 - 0x842000, 7M => kernel
> > 0x842000 - 0x853800, 100K => dtb
>
> spi NOR need 4KB as erase size, so this may need update , other item
> looks ok.
Correct, but this indeed doesn't effect env offset and size. May be I
can document it for future reference.
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