[PATCH 2/3] rockchip: Require an external TPL binary when TPL is missing

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 7 05:02:23 CET 2023


Hi Jonas,

On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 at 13:21, Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se> wrote:
>
> Rockchip SoCs typically use U-Boot TPL to initialize DRAM, then jumps
> back to boot-rom to load the next stage of the boot flow, U-Boot SPL.
>
> For RK356x there is currently no support to initialize DRAM using U-Boot
> TPL and instead an external TPL binary must be used to generate a
> working u-boot-rockchip.bin image.
>
> Use the new external-tpl entry unless CONFIG_TPL=y to indicate that an
> external TPL binary must be provided to generate a working firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
> ---
>  Makefile                          |  1 +
>  arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  tools/binman/missing-blob-help    |  5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 7eaf45496c1c..7e9272be937f 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1332,6 +1332,7 @@ cmd_binman = $(srctree)/tools/binman/binman $(if $(BINMAN_DEBUG),-D) \
>                 -a opensbi-path=${OPENSBI} \
>                 -a default-dt=$(default_dt) \
>                 -a scp-path=$(SCP) \
> +               -a external-tpl-path=$(EXTERNAL_TPL) \

rockchip-tpl-path

>                 -a spl-bss-pad=$(if $(CONFIG_SPL_SEPARATE_BSS),,1) \
>                 -a tpl-bss-pad=$(if $(CONFIG_TPL_SEPARATE_BSS),,1) \
>                 -a spl-dtb=$(CONFIG_SPL_OF_REAL) \
> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
> index 6c662a72d4f9..bc3bc9bc3e37 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
> @@ -20,12 +20,16 @@
>                 mkimage {
>                         filename = "idbloader.img";
>                         args = "-n", CONFIG_SYS_SOC, "-T", "rksd";
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TPL
>                         multiple-data-files;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TPL

As you said, this needs an explicit config

>                         u-boot-tpl {
> -                       };
> +#else
> +                       external-tpl {
> +                               filename = "ddr.bin";
> +                               missing-msg = "external-tpl-rockchip";
>  #endif
> +                       };
>                         u-boot-spl {
>                         };
>                 };
> @@ -134,12 +138,16 @@
>                 mkimage {
>                         filename = "idbloader-spi.img";
>                         args = "-n", CONFIG_SYS_SOC, "-T", "rkspi";
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TPL
>                         multiple-data-files;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TPL
>                         u-boot-tpl {
> -                       };
> +#else
> +                       external-tpl {
> +                               filename = "ddr.bin";
> +                               missing-msg = "external-tpl-rockchip";
>  #endif
> +                       };
>                         u-boot-spl {
>                         };
>                 };
> diff --git a/tools/binman/missing-blob-help b/tools/binman/missing-blob-help
> index c61ca02a35ee..e850824032dd 100644
> --- a/tools/binman/missing-blob-help
> +++ b/tools/binman/missing-blob-help
> @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ atf-bl31-sunxi:
>  Please read the section on ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) in
>  board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
>
> +external-tpl-rockchip:
> +External TPL is required to initialize DRAM. Get external TPL binary and
> +build with EXTERNAL_TPL=/path/to/ddr.bin. One possible source for
> +external TPL binary is https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin.
> +
>  scp-sunxi:
>  SCP firmware is required for system suspend, but is otherwise optional.
>  Please read the section on SCP firmware in board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
> --
> 2.39.1
>

Regards,
Simon


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