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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