[U-Boot] Cannot boot mx6qsabred with 2019.07-rc2

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 01:38:44AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> > Subject: Re: Cannot boot mx6qsabred with 2019.07-rc2
> > 
> > Hi Peng,
> > 
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:29 PM Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > You could enable DEBUG in SPL, and disable SPL_SDP because of size will
> > exceeds.
> > > Then see what happends.
> > > I have no idea, then. My board is REV C4, chip 1.5
> > 
> > My mx6qsabresd is revC2, with a i.MX6Q rev 1.2 populated.
> > 
> > After further investigation we can confirm that the problem is caused by SPL
> > size being greater than the 68kB limit (4KB header + 64KB max size)as
> > explained in include/configs/imx6_spl.h:
> > 
> > ---------------
> > #ifndef __IMX6_SPL_CONFIG_H
> > #define __IMX6_SPL_CONFIG_H
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SPL
> > /*
> >  * see Figure 8-3 in IMX6DQ/IMX6SDL Reference manuals:
> >  *  - IMX6SDL OCRAM (IRAM) is from 0x00907000 to 0x0091FFFF
> >  *  - IMX6DQ has 2x IRAM of IMX6SDL but we intend to support IMX6SDL as
> > well
> >  *  - BOOT ROM stack is at 0x0091FFB8
> >  *  - if icache/dcache is enabled (eFuse/strapping controlled) then the
> >  *    IMX BOOT ROM will setup MMU table at 0x00918000, therefore we
> > need to
> >  *    fit between 0x00907000 and 0x00918000.
> >  *  - Additionally the BOOT ROM loads what they consider the firmware
> > image
> >  *    which consists of a 4K header in front of us that contains the IVT, DCD
> >  *    and some padding thus 'our' max size is really 0x00908000 -
> > 0x00918000
> >  *    or 64KB
> >  */
> > #define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE             0x10000
> > #define CONFIG_SPL_STACK                0x0091FFB8
> > /*
> >  * Pad SPL to 68KB (4KB header + 64KB max size). This allows to write the
> >  * SPL/U-Boot combination generated with u-boot-with-spl.imx directly to a
> >  * boot media (given that boot media specific offset is configured properly).
> >  */
> > #define CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO               0x11000
> > ---------------
> > 
> > Here are the tests I ran:
> > 
> > Test 1: Original U-Boot 2019.07-rc2
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > 
> > SPL: 76800 (75 kB)
> > Result: does not boot
> > 
> > Test 2: Removing extra dtbs
> > -------------------------------------
> > 
> > --- a/configs/mx6sabresd_defconfig
> > +++ b/configs/mx6sabresd_defconfig
> > @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
> > CONFIG_OF_CONTROL=y  CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL=y
> > CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="imx6q-sabresd"
> > -CONFIG_OF_LIST="imx6q-sabresd imx6qp-sabresd imx6dl-sabresd"
> > +CONFIG_OF_LIST="imx6q-sabresd"
> >  CONFIG_MULTI_DTB_FIT=y
> >  CONFIG_SPL_MULTI_DTB_FIT=y
> > -CONFIG_SPL_OF_LIST="imx6dl-sabresd imx6q-sabresd imx6qp-sabresd"
> > +CONFIG_SPL_OF_LIST="imx6q-sabresd"
> >  CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y
> >  CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG=y
> >  CONFIG_SPL_DM=y
> > 
> > SPL:68608 (67 kB)
> > Result: boots correctly
> > 
> > Test 3: Removing SPL_DM
> > ------------------------------------
> > 
> > --- a/configs/mx6sabresd_defconfig
> > +++ b/configs/mx6sabresd_defconfig
> > @@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ CONFIG_SPL_MULTI_DTB_FIT=y
> > CONFIG_SPL_OF_LIST="imx6dl-sabresd imx6q-sabresd imx6qp-sabresd"
> >  CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y
> >  CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG=y
> > -CONFIG_SPL_DM=y
> >  CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_FASTBOOT=y
> >  CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR=0x12000000
> >  CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE=0x10000000
> > 
> > SPL: 68608 (67 kB)
> > Result: boots correctly
> > 
> > I will send a v2 removing CONFIG_SPL_DM.
> 
> So what is the real direction moving to use SPL driver, non-dm is allowed in future?
> 
> > 
> > Also, the SPL size check should be really done after the multi fit image is
> > concatenated so that we can have a chance to detect such size overflow in
> > build time.
> 
> Agree. I also meet that SPL size is too large on i.MX8/8M, although still have OCRAM for it.

As came up in another thread, CONFIG_MMC_TINY may be more widely useable
and should help with space.

-- 
Tom
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