[PATCH 1/2] board: ti: am62x: am62x.env: Fix boot_targets

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Thu Oct 5 19:10:10 CEST 2023


On 12:36-20231005, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 09:19:48AM -0500, Andrew Davis wrote:
> > On 10/4/23 8:54 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > > On 08:48-20231004, Andrew Davis wrote:
> > > > On 10/4/23 8:23 AM, Roger Quadros wrote:
> > > > > ti_mmc is not a valid boot_target for standard boot flow so
> > > > 
> > > > Is there some way to make it into a valid boot_target? Otherwise
> > > > how do we use uEnv.txt files, or boot from FIT images with overlays?
> > > 
> > > envboot takes care of uEnv.txt file (see
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231004132324.44198-3-rogerq@kernel.org/)
> > > 
> > > Early remote proc loading and FIT image is a question for stdboot itself.
> > > 
> > 
> > If stdboot is missing these features then we shouldn't switch until it
> > has them. I'm all for switching to this, but only if it is complete.
> 
> Depends on what you mean?  Did you mean an option to run scripts
> (exists) or an option to do what TI needs done, via
> boot/bootmeth_something.c ?  If the latter, someone from TI needs to
> figure out what that should be and do (but plumbing-wise everything it
> needs should exist).

Andrew is generalizing here (on the wrong patch though).

On am62x platforms, there is nothing regressing with this series. The
challenge is early remote_proc loading which is done for J7* platforms.

How that is initiated as part of bootmethods is something of a gap.

The other gap has been support for uEnv.txt -> which we can workaround
at the moment by using CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="run envboot; bootflow scan
-lb" in defconfig (This series from Roger already does that - hence I am
saying that Andrew is complaining on the wrong series).

Ideally, we should just have CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND="bootflow scan -lb" and
uEnv.txt remoteproc loads and the various standard bootmethods should
"just work".

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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