[PATCH u-boot-mvebu 0/7] arm: mvebu: Boot support for 4K Native disks

[Tony Dinh]

Hi Pali,

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:28 PM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This patch series allows to build SATA kwbimage for disks which do not
> have sector size 512 bytes long. For example 4K Native disks.
>
> SATA kwbimage differs from other kwbimage types in that way, that offset
> in its header is stored in SATA sectors units instead of byte units.
> Therefore image generator needs to know sector size of the target SATA
> disk. Currently both kwbimage and mkimage has hardcoded SATA sector size
> to 512 bytes.
>
> This patch series allows to specify custom SATA sector size via a new
> config option CONFIG_MVEBU_SPL_SATA_BLKSZ. And add autodetection of the
> sector size into kwboot to allow parsing such images.
>
> Maximal theoretical sector size is 32 kB because ATA IDENTIFY command
> returns sector size as 16-bit number and sector size should be power
> of two.

I don't have any board that can boot from SATA. But I ran regression
tests on the Pogo V4 (Kirkwood 6192).  kwboot and boot from NAND works
fine.

Tested-by: Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Tony

> Pali Rohár (7):
>   arm: mvebu: spl: Do not hardcode SATA block size to 512
>   cmd: mvebu/bubt: a38x: Do not hardcode SATA block size to 512
>   tools: imagetool: Extend print_header() by params argument
>   tools: kwbimage: Simplify align code
>   tools: kwbimage: Add support for SATA images with non-512 byte block
>     size
>   tools: kwboot: Add support for parsing SATA images with non-512 block
>     size
>   arm: mvebu: spl: Allow to build SATA kwbimage for 4K Native disks
>
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig         |  10 ++
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile        |   5 +
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kwbimage.cfg.in |   3 +
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/spl.c           |  11 ++-
>  cmd/mvebu/bubt.c                    |   7 +-
>  tools/aisimage.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/atmelimage.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/default_image.c               |   7 +-
>  tools/fit_common.c                  |   5 +
>  tools/fit_common.h                  |   2 +
>  tools/fit_image.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/gpimage.c                     |   2 +-
>  tools/imagetool.c                   |   4 +-
>  tools/imagetool.h                   |   2 +-
>  tools/imx8image.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/imx8mimage.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/imximage.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/kwbimage.c                    | 144 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>  tools/kwboot.c                      |  35 ++++++-
>  tools/lpc32xximage.c                |   2 +-
>  tools/mkimage.c                     |   2 +-
>  tools/mtk_image.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/mxsimage.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/omapimage.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/pblimage.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/rkcommon.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/rkcommon.h                    |   2 +-
>  tools/socfpgaimage.c                |   2 +-
>  tools/stm32image.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/sunxi_egon.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/sunxi_toc0.c                  |   2 +-
>  tools/ublimage.c                    |   2 +-
>  tools/vybridimage.c                 |   2 +-
>  tools/zynqimage.c                   |   2 +-
>  tools/zynqmpimage.c                 |   2 +-
>  tools/zynqmpimage.h                 |   2 +-
>  36 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.20.1
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