[PATCH v2] imx8mm-evk: Generate a single bootable flash.bin again

Fabio Estevam festevam at denx.de
Wed Aug 18 19:46:04 CEST 2021


After the conversion to binman in commit 8996e6b7c6a1 ("imx8mm_evk: switch
to use binman to pack images"), it is necessary to flash both flash.bin and
u-boot.itb to get a bootable system. Prior to this commit, only flash.bin
was needed. 

Such new requirement breaks existing distro mechanisms to generate the
final binary because the extra u-boot.itb is now required.

Generate a final flash.bin that can be used again as a single
bootable binary to keep the original behavior.

After this change the SPL binary is called spl.bin, which is a more
descriptive name for its purpose, and can still be used standalone
(for example, for secure boot purposes).

Also update imx8mm_evk.rst to remove the u-boot.itb copy step.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>
Reviewed-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf at kontron.de>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
---
Changes since v1:
- Update the readme (Tim)

 arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst  |  1 -
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi
index f200afac9f..75cd59e545 100644
--- a/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 	};
 
 
-       flash {
+	spl {
 		mkimage {
 			args = "-n spl/u-boot-spl.cfgout -T imx8mimage -e 0x7e1000";
 
@@ -217,4 +217,19 @@
 			};
 		};
 	};
+
+	imx-boot {
+		filename = "flash.bin";
+		pad-byte = <0x00>;
+
+		spl: blob-ext at 1 {
+			offset = <0x0>;
+			filename = "spl.bin";
+		};
+
+		uboot: blob-ext at 2 {
+			offset = <0x57c00>;
+			filename = "u-boot.itb";
+		};
+	};
 };
diff --git a/doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst b/doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst
index 7fd3d72564..b377c4de27 100644
--- a/doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst
+++ b/doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ Burn the flash.bin to MicroSD card offset 33KB:
 .. code-block:: bash
 
    $sudo dd if=flash.bin of=/dev/sd[x] bs=1024 seek=33 conv=notrunc
-   $sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 seek=384 conv=sync
 
 Boot
 ----
-- 
2.25.1



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