DM_SERIAL for i.MX6 Hummingboard/Cubox-i

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu Nov 3 14:57:41 CET 2022


Hi Fabio,

On Thu, Nov 03 2022, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 9:29 AM Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>> I am trying to migrate the Hummingboard platform to DM_SERIAL. See below
>> what I got so far. Booting this on top of master (as of commit
>> 8bc87a4c5) shows nothing on the serial console. Next thing I plan to try
>> is toggle GPIOs in entry code to see how far the code proceeds.
>>
>> Any idea where to look before I go down that way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> baruch
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
>> index 400b885e4370..8507b818d4cf 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
>> @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
>>         };
>>  };
>>
>> +&uart1 {
>> +       u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
>> +};
>
> Here you also need to pass &aips1, &pinctrl_uart1, and &soc.

I tried this (see below) but no luck yet. The tbs2910 appears not to use
SPL. I might be missing an SPL driver.

Thanks for your help,
baruch

diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
index 400b885e4370..e1cb9b3e89ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15-u-boot.dtsi
@@ -15,6 +15,22 @@
 	};
 };
 
+&soc {
+	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+
+&aips1 {
+	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+
+&pinctrl_microsom_uart1 {
+	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+
+&uart1 {
+	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+
 &gpio2 {
 	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
 };
diff --git a/configs/mx6cuboxi_defconfig b/configs/mx6cuboxi_defconfig
index 9de5e77c75ad..9d7b2764c969 100644
--- a/configs/mx6cuboxi_defconfig
+++ b/configs/mx6cuboxi_defconfig
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ CONFIG_OF_CONTROL=y
 CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL=y
 CONFIG_OF_LIST="imx6dl-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15 imx6q-hummingboard2-emmc-som-v15"
 CONFIG_MULTI_DTB_FIT=y
-CONFIG_SPL_OF_PLATDATA=y
 CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE=y
 CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y
 CONFIG_SYS_RELOC_GD_ENV_ADDR=y
@@ -65,9 +64,11 @@ CONFIG_FEC_MXC=y
 CONFIG_RGMII=y
 CONFIG_MII=y
 CONFIG_PINCTRL=y
+CONFIG_SPL_PINCTRL=y
 CONFIG_PINCTRL_IMX6=y
 CONFIG_DM_REGULATOR=y
 CONFIG_DM_REGULATOR_FIXED=y
+CONFIG_DM_SERIAL=y
 CONFIG_MXC_UART=y
 CONFIG_DM_THERMAL=y
 CONFIG_IMX_THERMAL=y

> Please look at the following commit for reference:
>
> commit 8fbca1a8b9b02fbc40147401d9af764e07dc96af
> Author: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>
> Date:   Tue Mar 15 17:47:05 2022 -0300
>
>     tbs2910: Convert to DM_SERIAL
>
>     Conversion to DM_SERIAL is mandatory.
>
>     Select DM_SERIAL and add a imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi file
>     that describes the nodes that require dm-pre-reloc, which allows
>     the DM model to configure the UART pinctrl early.
>
>     Remove the now unneeded board UART initialization.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at denx.de>
>     Tested-by: Soeren Moch <smoch at web.de>


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