kwboot: Marvell Dove UART booting

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Sun Feb 13 17:16:42 CET 2022


On Wednesday 22 December 2021 20:08:56 Tony Dinh wrote:
> *** Run kwboot
> 
> # kwboot -t -p -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -D /localdisk/mtd0.t5335z
> Patching image boot signature to UART
> Aligning image header to Xmodem block size
> Waiting 2s and flushing tty
> Sending boot image header (512 bytes)...
>  25 % [....                                                                  ]
> Done
> Sending boot image data (607664 bytes)...
>   0 % [......................................................................]
>   1 % [......................................................................]
>   2 % [......................................................................]
> <snip>
>  95 % [......................................................................]
>  97 % [......................................................................]
>  98 % [..........................................................            ]
> Done
> Finishing transfer
> [Type Ctrl-\ + c to quit]
> 
> *** Hung here! BootROM did not execute the image payload.
> ***
> *** The file mtd0.t5335z is a dd dump from the SPI flash mtd0 with
> *** this command:
> ***     # dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=mtd0.t5335z bs=768k conv=sync
> 
> <End log>
> 
> 
> - Pali's observation:
> 
> It looks like Dove uses kwbimage v0 format with extensions, at
> least according to Function Spec. See 'Binary Code Extension' and
> 'Header Extension'. Currently kwboot and kwbimage supports v0 image only
> with one extension.

I quickly looked at it. Could you try following patch?

diff --git a/tools/kwbimage.h b/tools/kwbimage.h
index 74e5d87a4fef..15e83ececc76 100644
--- a/tools/kwbimage.h
+++ b/tools/kwbimage.h
@@ -61,14 +64,46 @@ struct ext_hdr_v0_reg {
 	uint32_t rdata;
 } __packed;
 
-#define EXT_HDR_V0_REG_COUNT ((0x1dc - 0x20) / sizeof(struct ext_hdr_v0_reg))
-
+/* Structure of the extension header, version 0 (Kirkwood, Dove) */
 struct ext_hdr_v0 {
-	uint32_t              offset;
-	uint8_t               reserved[0x20 - sizeof(uint32_t)];
-	struct ext_hdr_v0_reg rcfg[EXT_HDR_V0_REG_COUNT];
-	uint8_t               reserved2[7];
-	uint8_t               checksum;
+	/*
+	 * Beware that extension header offsets specified in 88AP510 Functional
+	 * Specifications are relative to the start of the main header, not to
+	 * the start of the extension header itself.
+	 */
+	uint32_t offset;		/* 0x0-0x3     */
+	uint8_t  rsvd1[8];		/* 0x4-0xB     */
+	uint32_t ddrinitdelay;		/* 0xC-0xF     */
+	uint32_t match_addr;		/* 0x10-0x13   */
+	uint32_t match_mask;		/* 0x14-0x17   */
+	uint32_t match_value;		/* 0x18-0x1B   */
+	uint8_t  ddrwritetype;		/* 0x1C        */
+	uint8_t  ddrresetmpp;		/* 0x1D        */
+	uint8_t  ddrclkenmpp;		/* 0x1E        */
+	uint8_t  ddrmppdelay;		/* 0x1F        */
+	struct ext_hdr_v0_reg rcfg[55]; /* 0x20-0x1D7  */
+	uint8_t  rsvd2[7];		/* 0x1D8-0x1DE */
+	uint8_t  checksum;		/* 0x1DF       */
+} __packed;
+
+/* Structure of the binary code header, version 0 (Dove) */
+struct binext_hdr_v0 {
+	uint32_t match_addr;		/* 0x00-0x03  */
+	uint32_t match_mask;		/* 0x04-0x07  */
+	uint32_t match_value;		/* 0x08-0x0B  */
+	uint32_t offset;		/* 0x0C-0x0F  */
+	uint32_t destaddr;		/* 0x10-0x13  */
+	uint32_t size;			/* 0x14-0x17  */
+	uint32_t execaddr;		/* 0x18-0x1B  */
+	uint32_t param1;		/* 0x1C-0x1F  */
+	uint32_t param2;		/* 0x20-0x23  */
+	uint32_t param3;		/* 0x24-0x27  */
+	uint32_t param4;		/* 0x28-0x2B  */
+	uint8_t  params;		/* 0x2C       */
+	uint8_t  rsvd1;			/* 0x2D       */
+	uint8_t  rsvd2;			/* 0x2E       */
+	uint8_t  checksum;		/* 0x2F       */
+	uint8_t  code[2000];		/* 0x30-0x7FF */
 } __packed;
 
 /* Structure of the main header, version 1 (Armada 370/XP/375/38x/39x) */
@@ -213,8 +248,20 @@ static inline size_t kwbheader_size(const void *header)
 	if (kwbimage_version(header) == 0) {
 		const struct main_hdr_v0 *hdr = header;
 
+		/*
+		 * First extension header starts immediately after the main
+		 * header without any padding. Between extension headers is
+		 * 0x20 byte padding. There is no padding after the last
+		 * extension header. First binary code header starts immediately
+		 * after the last extension header (or immediately after the
+		 * main header if there is no extension header) without any
+		 * padding. There is no padding between binary code headers and
+		 * neither after the last binary code header.
+		 */
 		return sizeof(*hdr) +
-		       hdr->ext ? sizeof(struct ext_hdr_v0) : 0;
+		       hdr->ext * sizeof(struct ext_hdr_v0) +
+		       ((hdr->ext > 1) ? (hdr->ext * 0x20) : 0) +
+		       hdr->binext * sizeof(struct binext_hdr_v0);
 	} else {
 		const struct main_hdr_v1 *hdr = header;
 


It fixes kwbheader_size() function to returns correct size of the image
header (with all v0 extensions), so it could help kwboot to convert
image with non-UART sign to UART version and send it over UART.


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