[PATCH v2 00/11] Add Rockchip IDB device

Kever Yang kever.yang at rock-chips.com
Mon Aug 15 06:29:01 CEST 2022


Hi Johan,

On 2022/7/10 02:48, Johan Jonker wrote:
> Add Rockchip IDB device for U-boot.


I'm sorry, there is no "Rockchip IDB device".

Rockchip BootRom need a boot structure date, we name it "IDB" data, 
which is common structure

for all the storage media including EMMC, SD, SPI, and NAND.

I think what you try to do is add the RKNAND controller driver in 
RK3066, and the IDB data implement

in rknand, just like there are some different in rksd and rkspi.

I think it's better to adapt RK NAND driver to MTD framwork instead of a 
new RKNAND type in block layer,

because even in rockchip, the rknand adapt to block driver has been 
superseded and deprecated to use in new code.


Thanks,
- Kever
>
> On Rockchip SoCs with a NAND as boot device the information data base (IDB) loaded
> by the boot ROM is stored at the beginning of several erase blocks.
> Rewriting NAND blocks makes them wear out, so some spare blocks and a writing strategy
> are required. A closed source usbplug uses block: 2,3,4,5,6 for example.
> Block 0 and 1 is in use for other data.
> For compatible reasons this device follows this approach in line with other
> Rockchip products and modules for now.
>
> The Rockchip boot ROM requires a particular file format for booting from NAND:
>
>    It starts with 512-byte (IDB sector 0), RC4 encoded header and is aligned to NAND page size.
>    Rockchip fills sector 1,2 and 3 here with more data structures, but that is not required
>    by the boot ROM. It just makes it easier to identify the IDB date and version.
>
>    Then 2KB pieces (4 x 512 byte sectors) of spl and tpl data aligned to the NAND page size in a
>    fixed pattern with empty pages.
>
> Size of spl and tpl must be aligned to 2KB.
> Empty NAND pages/sectors not in use should fill with 0xFF padding to increase NAND durability.
>
> Create a IDB image for the flash tools below with:
>
> #### For RK30 with NAND only ####
>
> printf "RK30" > tplspl.bin
> dd if=u-boot-tpl.bin >> tplspl.bin
> truncate -s %2048 tplspl.bin
> truncate -s %2048 u-boot-spl.bin
> ./mkimage -v -n rk3066 -T rksd -d ./tplspl.bin:./u-boot-spl.bin out
>
> #### For other Rockchip SoCs with NAND ####
>
> ./mkimage -v -n rk3188 -T rksd -d ./u-boot-tpl.bin:./u-boot-spl.bin out
>
> or if more data structures for IDB sector 1, 2 (RC4) and 3 (RC4) are needed then use a custom
> image tool as mainline only has basic support for IDB sector 0.
>
> In order to transfer data from a host (PC) via USB existing methods are used.
> This driver creates an GPT EFI block driver to work with the
> U-boot commands "rockusb" and "ums".
> IDB data is inserted 'on the fly' as if it were a normal disk in blocks with 512 byte.
> Changing disk parameters is not allowed.
>
> The IDB device driver looks for block driver sector 64 to start with and calculates the IDB size.
> When the last sector is received it erases a NAND block and writes IDB sectors to NAND in a pattern.
> Written data is verified. If not identical that NAND erase block is freed.
> As last thing the remaining IDB blocks are scanned and made available for reading.
>
> Normal U-boot operation contains 2 steps:
>
> 1 - start IDB device
> 2 - start USB gadget (rockusb or ums)
>
> U-boot IDB commands:
>
> idb start - start IDB device
> idb stop  - stop IDB blk device
> idb info  - show IDB device info
>
> Host (PC) tool commands combinations that work:
>
> U-boot					linux
> rockusb 0 idb 0
> 					upgrade_tool pl
> 					upgrade_tool wl 64 upgrade_tool_wl_64.bin
> 					upgrade_tool rl 64 512 upgrade_tool_rl_64_512.bin
> 					upgrade_tool rd
>
> 					rkdeveloptool ppt
> 					rkdeveloptool wlx loader1 rkdeveloptool_wlx_loader1.bin
> 					rkdeveloptool wl 64 rkdeveloptool_wl_64.bin
> 					rkdeveloptool rl 64 512 rkdeveloptool_rl_64_512.bin
> 					rkdeveloptool rd
>
> 					rkflashtool w 64 512 < rkflashtool_w_64_512.bin
> 					rkflashtool r 64 512 > rkflashtool_r_64_512.bin
>
> ums 0 idb 0
> 					dd if=ums_0_idb_0_wr.bin of=/dev/sda1
> 					dd if=/dev/sda1 of=ums_0_idb_0_rd.bin
>
> Tested with:
>    MK808 rk3066
>
> Not tested:
>    nfc type V8, V9
>
> TODO:
>    This is placed in the mach-rockchip directory,
>    so we can re-use/combine the source with a usbplug or RK NAND FTL driver
>    with no MTD frame work bloatware ;) in a Makefile.
>
>    IDB header V2
>
>    Writing strategy improvement
>
>    etc, etc
>
> Changed V2:
>    remove CamelCases
>    split patch block driver
>    split patch optinal stop and info cmd
>    split patch optinal sector1 info
>    split patch optinal randomizer
>
> Johan Jonker (11):
>    rockchip: idb: prepare IDB block device
>    rockchip: idb: add basic functions
>    rockchip: idb: add IDB block device
>    rockchip: idb: add info and stop command
>    rockchip: idb: add sector1 info
>    rockchip: idb: add randomizer option
>    rockchip: spl: allow more boot devices
>    rockchip: rk3066: add Rockchip IDB block device as boot action
>    arm: dts: rockchip: sync rk3066/rk3188 DT files from Linux
>    arm: dts: rockchip: enable nfc node in spl for rk3066 mk808
>    rockchip: configs: mk808: add idb configs
>
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3066a-mk808-u-boot.dtsi |    8 +
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3066a-mk808.dts         |   18 +
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3066a.dtsi              |    3 +-
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3188-radxarock.dts      |    3 +-
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3188.dtsi               |   24 +-
>   arch/arm/dts/rk3xxx-u-boot.dtsi        |    4 +
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Kconfig         |   12 +
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/Makefile        |    1 +
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3066/rk3066.c |   11 +
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rockchip_idb.c  | 1694 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/arm/mach-rockchip/spl.c           |    5 +-
>   configs/mk808_defconfig                |    4 +
>   drivers/block/blk-uclass.c             |    2 +
>   include/blk.h                          |    1 +
>   include/dm/uclass-id.h                 |    1 +
>   include/efi_loader.h                   |    4 +
>   lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.c       |   30 +
>   17 files changed, 1812 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rockchip_idb.c
>


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