[PATCH RFC u-boot-mvebu 0/6] arm: mvebu: Fix boot mode detection

Tony Dinh mibodhi at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 01:01:58 CET 2023


Hi Pali,

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Pali,
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 2:54 PM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 05 March 2023 14:46:55 Tony Dinh wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 2:44 PM Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Pali,
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 3:55 AM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sunday 05 March 2023 04:21:42 Martin Rowe wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 10:51, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Improve code for checking strapping pins which specifies boot mode source.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Martin, could you test if Clearfog can be still configured into UART
> > > > > > > booting mode via HW switches and if it still works correctly? First
> > > > > > > patch is reverting UART related commit for Clearfog which I think it not
> > > > > > > needed anymore.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Clearfog the logic in the CONFIG_ARMADA_38X ifdef before the switch that
> > > > > > you refactored in cpu.c/get_boot_device is all that gets processed. It
> > > > > > decides there is an error and returns BOOT_DEVICE_UART, probably because of
> > > > > > the invalid boot workaround for broken UART selection that you identified.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, so I figured out correctly how this invalid mode works.
> > > > >
> > > > > > UART only works if I use the clearfog_spi_defconfig or if I select
> > > > > > CONFIG_MVEBU_SPL_BOOT_DEVICE_UART=y. It does not work with the MMC or SATA
> > > > > > defconfigs. I get the same result without this patch series applied, though.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The failed cases have the same output (other than kwboot header patching
> > > > > > output) until after sending boot image data is complete. The output stops
> > > > > > after:
> > > > > > ================================
> > > > > >  98 % [.................................................................
> > > > > >   ]
> > > > > > Done
> > > > > > Finishing transfer
> > > > > > [Type Ctrl-\ + c to quit]
> > > > > > ================================
> > > > >
> > > > > This is very strange because CONFIG_MVEBU_SPL_BOOT_DEVICE_UART just
> > > > > instruct mkimage what to put into kwbimage header.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I'm looking at the output correctly then SPL was booted, it correctly
> > > > > trained DDR RAM, returned back to bootrom, kwboot continued sending main
> > > > > u-boot and bootrom confirmed that transfer of both SPL and main u-boot
> > > > > is complete. But then there is no output from main u-boot.
> > > > >
> > > > > > It looks like an unrelated issue with kwboot.c, which I was sure was
> > > > > > working after the last patches but I can no longer reproduce a successful
> > > > > > boot.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you check that you are using _both_ mkimage and kwboot from version
> > > > > with applying _all_ my patches recently sent to ML? Because both mkimage
> > > > > and kwboot have fixes for SATA and SDIO images.
> > > > >
> > > > > For me it looks like that either mkimage generated incorrect image size
> > > > > for SATA or SDIO image. Or kwboot incorrectly parsed that image size
> > > > > from kwbimage header and sent smaller image.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Also could you check if SATA booting is still working correctly?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > SATA works correctly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Perfect!
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Tony, should address problems with SPI booting when it is configured to
> > > > > > > different configuration. In fourth commit I added all possible boot mode
> > > > > > > strapping pin configurations which are recognized by A385 bootrom (and
> > > > > > > not the only one described in the HW spec, which is incomplete).
> > > >
> > > > It works great! Here the strapping is SPI 1 (0x34), and the boot mode
> > > > is set to "Trying to boot from SPI" correctly.  I'm having a problem
> > > > with SPL SPI probing the device. But I don't think it is not related
> > > > to this boot mode patch. There is something in SPL SPI that either I
> > > > don't understand or it is a bug.
> > >
> > > I meant "But I don't think it is related to this boot mode patch".
> >
> > 0x34 uses SPI controller 1. So maybe you need to adjust some config
> > options? In your log is usage of bus 0, so maybe this could be the
> > reason.
>
> Previously I did not use bus 1, and used the default bus 0 and it
> still works! so I've suspected there is some problem in SPL SPI (i.e.
> it works when it should not). But now default bus 0 no longer works.
>
> I am configuring bus 1,  but I'm not yet successful. There are
> multiple places where bus 1 is needed to be specified. Also, might I
> also need -u-boot.dtsi to tag the spi1 as dm,pre-reloc ?

I know it's no longer boot mode detection in my test. We knew that worked.

But I can't seem to get that SPI 1 booting to work, and hope you can
see something in this log. The strapping pin is 0x34, but the SPI
probe on bus 1 always fails. The envs loading on SPI 1 also fails. But
the BootROM apparently *can* load the u-boot image from SPI. And after
u-boot start, the SPI bus is 0 (shown in dm tree, and in sf probe
command below).

<BEGIN LOG>
BootROM - 1.73
Booting from SPI flash

U-Boot SPL 2023.04-rc2-tld-1-00090-g3652b7b399-dirty (Mar 06 2023 -
15:25:16 -0800)
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0
Detected Device ID 6820
board SerDes lanes topology details:
 | Lane # | Speed |  Type       |
 --------------------------------
 |   0    |   0   | SGMII0 |
 |   1    |   3   | SATA0 |
 |   2    |   3   | SATA1 |
 |   4    |   5   | USB3 HOST0 |
 |   5    |   5   | USB3 HOST1 |
 --------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
mv_ddr: 14.0.0
DDR4 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window
mv_ddr: completed successfully
SAR_REG=0xcb00934c boot_device=0x34
Trying to boot from SPI
spl_spi_load_image sf_bus = 1 sf_cs = 0
spi_flash_probe spi_flash
Invalid bus 1 (err=-19)
SPI probe failed.
Trying to boot from BOOTROM
Returning to BootROM (return address 0xffff05c4)...
BootROM: Image checksum verification PASSED


U-Boot 2023.04-rc2-tld-1-00090-g3652b7b399-dirty (Mar 06 2023 - 15:25:16 -0800)
Thecus N2350

SoC:   MV88F6820-A0 at 1066 MHz
DRAM:  1 GiB (533 MHz, 32-bit, ECC not enabled)
Core:  62 devices, 22 uclasses, devicetree: separate
MMC:
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... Invalid bus 1 (err=-19)
*** Warning - spi_flash_probe_bus_cs() failed, using default environment

Model: Thecus N2350
Net:
Warning: ethernet at 70000 (eth0) using random MAC address - fe:d5:7a:cc:a7:65
eth0: ethernet at 70000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
N2350 > dm tree
 Class     Index  Probed  Driver                Name
-----------------------------------------------------------
 root          0  [ + ]   root_driver           root_driver
 simple_bus    0  [ + ]   simple_bus            |-- soc
 simple_bus    1  [ + ]   simple_bus            |   |-- internal-regs
 i2c           0  [   ]   i2c_mvtwsi            |   |   |-- i2c at 11000
 i2c           1  [   ]   i2c_mvtwsi            |   |   |-- i2c at 11100
 serial        0  [ + ]   ns16550_serial        |   |   |-- serial at 12000
 pinctrl       0  [   ]   armada-38x-pinctrl    |   |   |-- pinctrl at 18000
 pinconfig     0  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- ge-rgmii-pins-0
 pinconfig     1  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- ge-rgmii-pins-1
 pinconfig     2  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- i2c-pins-0
 pinconfig     3  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- mdio-pins
 pinconfig     4  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- ref-clk-pins-0
 pinconfig     5  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- ref-clk-pins-1
 pinconfig     6  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- spi-pins-0
 pinconfig     7  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- spi-pins-1
 pinconfig     8  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- nand-pins
 pinconfig     9  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- nand-rb
 pinconfig    10  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- uart-pins-0
 pinconfig    11  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- uart-pins-1
 pinconfig    12  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- sdhci-pins
 pinconfig    13  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- sata-pins-0
 pinconfig    14  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- sata-pins-1
 pinconfig    15  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- sata-pins-2
 pinconfig    16  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- sata-pins-3
 pinconfig    17  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-power-button
 pinconfig    18  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-copy-button
 pinconfig    19  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-reset-button
 pinconfig    20  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-sata1-white-led
 pinconfig    21  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-sata1-red-led
 pinconfig    22  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-sata2-white-led
 pinconfig    23  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-sata2-red-led
 pinconfig    24  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-sys-white-led
 pinconfig    25  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-sys-red-led
 pinconfig    26  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-buzzer
 pinconfig    27  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-pwr-off
 pinconfig    28  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-pwr-blue-led
 pinconfig    29  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |-- pmx-pwr-red-led
 pinconfig    30  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   |--
pmx-usb-white-led
 pinconfig    31  [   ]   pinconfig             |   |   |   `-- pmx-usb-red-led
 gpio          0  [   ]   gpio_mvebu            |   |   |-- gpio at 18100
 gpio          1  [   ]   gpio_mvebu            |   |   |-- gpio at 18140
 reset         0  [ + ]   mvebu-reset           |   |   |--
system-controller at 18200
 timer         0  [ + ]   orion_timer           |   |   |-- timer at 20300
 ethernet      0  [ + ]   mvneta                |   |   |-- ethernet at 70000
 bootdev       0  [   ]   eth_bootdev           |   |   |   `--
ethernet at 70000.bootdev
 usb           0  [   ]   ehci_mvebu            |   |   |-- usb at 58000
 mdio          0  [   ]   mvmdio                |   |   |-- mdio at 72004
 rtc           0  [   ]   rtc-armada38x         |   |   |-- rtc at a3800
 ahci          0  [   ]   ahci_mvebu            |   |   |-- sata at a8000
 scsi          0  [   ]   ahci_scsi             |   |   |   `-- ahci_scsi
 usb           1  [   ]   xhci_mvebu            |   |   |-- usb3 at f0000
 usb           2  [   ]   xhci_mvebu            |   |   `-- usb3 at f8000
 spi           0  [   ]   mvebu_spi             |   |-- spi at 10680
 spi_flash     0  [   ]   jedec_spi_nor         |   |   `-- spi-flash at 0
 misc          0  [   ]   pcie_mvebu_base       |   `-- pcie
 pci           0  [   ]   pcie_mvebu            |       |-- pcie0.0
 pci           1  [   ]   pcie_mvebu            |       `-- pcie1.0
 simple_bus    2  [   ]   simple_bus            |-- regulators
 bootstd       0  [   ]   bootstd_drv           `-- bootstd
 bootmeth      0  [   ]   bootmeth_distro           |-- distro
 bootmeth      1  [   ]   bootmeth_efi              |-- efi
 bootmeth      2  [   ]   bootmeth_pxe              `-- pxe
N2350 > sf probe 0:0
SF: Detected mx25l3205d with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
N2350 > sf probe 1:0
Invalid bus 1 (err=-19)
dev_get_uclass_priv: null device
Failed to initialize SPI flash at 1:0 (error -19)
<END LOG>

So I think there is probably some problem in SPL SPI. Note that for
a38x, spi0 is @10600, and spi1 is spi at 10680. So the dm tree listing,
 spi           0  [   ]   mvebu_spi             |   |-- spi at 10680

index 0 is *not* bus 0, it is just the 1st device.

Meanwhile, the sf probe command is supposed to take bus:cs as
argument, but it is taking the first device too. My thinking is DM SPI
probably has never been tested with this scenario (spi1 is the only
active SPI controller in the board).

Thanks,
Tony

>
> > > >
> > > > U-Boot SPL 2023.04-rc2-tld-1-00090-g3652b7b399-dirty (Mar 05 2023 -
> > > > 13:52:31 -0800)
> > > > High speed PHY - Version: 2.0
> > > > Detected Device ID 6820
> > > > board SerDes lanes topology details:
> > > >  | Lane # | Speed |  Type       |
> > > >  --------------------------------
> > > >  |   0    |   0   | SGMII0 |
> > > >  |   1    |   3   | SATA0 |
> > > >  |   2    |   3   | SATA1 |
> > > >  |   4    |   5   | USB3 HOST0 |
> > > >  |   5    |   5   | USB3 HOST1 |
> > > >  --------------------------------
> > > > High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
> > > > mv_ddr: 14.0.0
> > > > DDR4 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window
> > > > mv_ddr: completed successfully
> > > > SAR_REG=0xcb00934c boot_device=0x34
> > > > Trying to boot from SPI
> > > > spl_spi_load_image sf_bus = 0 sf_cs = 0
> > > > spi_flash_probe spi_flash
> > > > Invalid bus 0 (err=-19)
> > > > SPI probe failed.
> > > > Trying to boot from BOOTROM
> > > > Returning to BootROM (return address 0xffff05c4)...
> > > > BootROM: Image checksum verification PASSED
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tony
> > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Stefan, do you have some AXP board with SATA boot source? Because I'm
> > > > > > > adding it for completeness in the last sixth patch.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Pali Rohár (6):
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Remove A38x BOOT_FROM_UART_ALT 0x3f constant
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Remove A38x BOOT_FROM_SATA 0x22 constant
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Convert BOOT_FROM_* constants to function macros
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Define all options for A38x BOOT_FROM_* macros
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Define all BOOTROM_ERR_MODE_* macros
> > > > > > >   arm: mvebu: Define all options for AXP BOOT_FROM_* macros
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/cpu.c              | 20 ++++++-------
> > > > > > >  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/include/mach/soc.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++----------
> > > > > > >  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > 2.20.1
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >


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