[PATCH v4] imx8mm-evk: Generate a single bootable flash.bin again
Marcel Ziswiler
marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com
Mon Aug 23 14:34:43 CEST 2021
On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 09:13 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com>
> ---
> Changes since v3:
> - Use u-boot-spl-ddr.bin in the LOADER section (Heiko)
> - Dropped patch 2/2 as it needs improvements.
>
> arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-evk-u-boot.dtsi | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> .../imx8mm_evk/imximage-8mm-lpddr4.cfg | 2 +-
> doc/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk.rst | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 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";
As Heiko also pointed out for my patch set it might be nicer to explicitly name that file here:
filename = "spl.bin";
>
> @@ -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/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk/imximage-8mm-lpddr4.cfg b/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk/imximage-8mm-
> lpddr4.cfg
> index b89092a559..90573be5fd 100644
> --- a/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk/imximage-8mm-lpddr4.cfg
> +++ b/board/freescale/imx8mm_evk/imximage-8mm-lpddr4.cfg
> @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
> #define __ASSEMBLY__
>
> BOOT_FROM sd
> -LOADER mkimage.flash.mkimage 0x7E1000
> +LOADER u-boot-spl-ddr.bin 0x7E1000
> 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
> ----
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