[PATCH 16/33] doc: boards: amlogic: update documentation for ODROID-C4

Christian Hewitt christianshewitt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 12:45:52 CET 2023


Improve documentation. Notably drop references to the ODROID-HC4 board
as its support has evolved and we will add an HC4 specific document in
a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt at gmail.com>
---
 doc/board/amlogic/odroid-c4.rst | 117 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-c4.rst b/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-c4.rst
index b512c6a3d8..89198cda91 100644
--- a/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-c4.rst
+++ b/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-c4.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
 
-U-Boot for ODROID-C4
-====================
+U-Boot for ODROID-C4 (S905X3)
+=============================
 
-ODROID-C4 is a single board computer manufactured by Hardkernel
-Co. Ltd with the following specifications:
+ODROID-C4 is a Single Board Computer manufactured by Hardkernel with the following
+specifications:
 
  - Amlogic S905X3 Arm Cortex-A55 quad-core SoC
  - 4GB DDR4 SDRAM
@@ -17,12 +17,9 @@ Co. Ltd with the following specifications:
  - UART serial
  - Infrared receiver
 
-The ODROID-HC4 is a variant with a PCIe-SATA controller, the same commands
-applies for HC4.
-
 Schematics are available on the manufacturer website.
 
-U-Boot compilation
+U-Boot Compilation
 ------------------
 
 .. code-block:: bash
@@ -31,14 +28,20 @@ U-Boot compilation
     $ make odroid-c4_defconfig
     $ make
 
-Image creation
---------------
+U-Boot Signing with Pre-Built FIP repo
+--------------------------------------
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+    $ git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip --depth=1
+    $ cd amlogic-boot-fip
+    $ mkdir my-output-dir
+    $ ./build-fip.sh odroid-c4 /path/to/u-boot/u-boot.bin my-output-dir
 
-For simplified usage, pleaser refer to :doc:`pre-generated-fip` with codename `odroid-c4` or `odroid-hc4`
+U-Boot Manual Signing
+---------------------
 
-Amlogic doesn't provide sources for the firmware and for tools needed
-to create the bootloader image, so it is necessary to obtain them from
-the git tree published by the board vendor:
+Amlogic does not provide sources for the firmware and tools needed to create a bootloader
+image so it is necessary to obtain binaries from sources published by the board vendor:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ the git tree published by the board vendor:
     $ make
     $ export UBOOTDIR=$PWD
 
-Go back to mainline U-Boot source tree then :
+Go back to the mainline U-Boot source tree then:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -82,58 +85,58 @@ Go back to mainline U-Boot source tree then :
     $ cp u-boot.bin fip/bl33.bin
 
     $ sh fip/blx_fix.sh \
-    	fip/bl30.bin \
-    	fip/zero_tmp \
-    	fip/bl30_zero.bin \
-    	fip/bl301.bin \
-    	fip/bl301_zero.bin \
-    	fip/bl30_new.bin \
-    	bl30
+         fip/bl30.bin \
+         fip/zero_tmp \
+         fip/bl30_zero.bin \
+         fip/bl301.bin \
+         fip/bl301_zero.bin \
+         fip/bl30_new.bin \
+         bl30
 
     $ sh fip/blx_fix.sh \
-    	fip/bl2.bin \
-    	fip/zero_tmp \
-    	fip/bl2_zero.bin \
-    	fip/acs.bin \
-    	fip/bl21_zero.bin \
-    	fip/bl2_new.bin \
-    	bl2
+         fip/bl2.bin \
+         fip/zero_tmp \
+         fip/bl2_zero.bin \
+         fip/acs.bin \
+         fip/bl21_zero.bin \
+         fip/bl2_new.bin \
+         bl2
 
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl30sig --input fip/bl30_new.bin \
-    					--output fip/bl30_new.bin.g12a.enc \
-    					--level v3
+                                          --output fip/bl30_new.bin.g12a.enc \
+                                          --level v3
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl3sig --input fip/bl30_new.bin.g12a.enc \
-    					--output fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
-    					--level v3 --type bl30
+                                          --output fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
+                                          --level v3 --type bl30
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl3sig --input fip/bl31.img \
-    					--output fip/bl31.img.enc \
-    					--level v3 --type bl31
+                                          --output fip/bl31.img.enc \
+                                          --level v3 --type bl31
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl3sig --input fip/bl33.bin --compress lz4 \
-    					--output fip/bl33.bin.enc \
-    					--level v3 --type bl33 --compress lz4
+                                          --output fip/bl33.bin.enc \
+                                          --level v3 --type bl33 --compress lz4
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl2sig --input fip/bl2_new.bin \
-    					--output fip/bl2.n.bin.sig
+                                          --output fip/bl2.n.bin.sig
     $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bootmk \
-    		--output fip/u-boot.bin \
-    		--bl2 fip/bl2.n.bin.sig \
-    		--bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
-    		--bl31 fip/bl31.img.enc \
-    		--bl33 fip/bl33.bin.enc \
-    		--ddrfw1 fip/ddr4_1d.fw \
-    		--ddrfw2 fip/ddr4_2d.fw \
-    		--ddrfw3 fip/ddr3_1d.fw \
-    		--ddrfw4 fip/piei.fw \
-    		--ddrfw5 fip/lpddr4_1d.fw \
-    		--ddrfw6 fip/lpddr4_2d.fw \
-    		--ddrfw7 fip/diag_lpddr4.fw \
-    		--ddrfw8 fip/aml_ddr.fw \
-    		--ddrfw9 fip/lpddr3_1d.fw \
-    		--level v3
-
-and then write the image to SD with:
+                                          --output fip/u-boot.bin \
+                                          --bl2 fip/bl2.n.bin.sig \
+                                          --bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
+                                          --bl31 fip/bl31.img.enc \
+                                          --bl33 fip/bl33.bin.enc \
+                                          --ddrfw1 fip/ddr4_1d.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw2 fip/ddr4_2d.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw3 fip/ddr3_1d.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw4 fip/piei.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw5 fip/lpddr4_1d.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw6 fip/lpddr4_2d.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw7 fip/diag_lpddr4.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw8 fip/aml_ddr.fw \
+                                          --ddrfw9 fip/lpddr3_1d.fw \
+                                          --level v3
+
+Then write the image to SD or eMMC with:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ DEV=/dev/your_sd_device
+    $ DEV=/dev/boot_device
     $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 skip=1 seek=1
-    $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=444
+    $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=440
-- 
2.34.1



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