[PATCH v3 2/2] riscv: dts: starfive: generate u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out
Milan P. Stanić
mps at arvanta.net
Sun Sep 17 23:10:32 CEST 2023
On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 13:47, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The StarFive VisionFive 2 board cannot load spl/u-boot-spl.bin but needs a
> prefixed header. We have referring to a vendor tool (spl_tool) for this
> task. 'mkimage -T sfspl' can generate the prefixed file.
>
> Use binman to invoke mkimage for the generation of file
> spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out.
>
> Update the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
Tested-by: Milan P. Stanić <mps at arvanta.net>
> ---
> v3:
> Rename binman node for SPL image.
> Use u-boot-spl instead of blob as mkimage subnode.
> v2:
> Fix a typo in a comment in tools/sfspl.c
> Add Tested-by credits
> ---
> .../dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi | 11 +++++++++++
> doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst | 14 ++------------
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> index 13f69da31e..55185314dd 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> @@ -103,4 +103,15 @@
> };
> };
> };
> +
> + spl-img {
> + filename = "spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out";
> +
> + mkimage {
> + args = "-T sfspl";
> +
> + u-boot-spl {
> + };
> + };
> +};
> };
> diff --git a/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst b/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> index 941899a0a4..f5575ab68b 100644
> --- a/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> +++ b/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> @@ -65,18 +65,8 @@ Now build the U-Boot SPL and U-Boot proper
> make starfive_visionfive2_defconfig
> make OPENSBI=$(opensbi_dir)/opensbi/build/platform/generic/firmware/fw_dynamic.bin
>
> -This will generate spl/u-boot-spl.bin and FIT image (u-boot.itb)
> -
> -u-boot-spl.bin cannot be used directly on StarFive VisionFive2,we need
> -to convert the u-boot-spl.bin to u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out with
> -the below command:
> -
> - ./spl_tool -c -f $(Uboot_PATH)/spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> -
> -More detailed description of spl_tool,please refer spl_tool documenation.
> -(Note: spl_tool git repo is at https://github.com/starfive-tech/Tools/tree/master/spl_tool)
> -
> -This will generate u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out file.
> +This will generate the U-Boot SPL image (spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out) as well
> +as the FIT image (u-boot.itb) with OpenSBI and U-Boot.
>
> Flashing
> ~~~~~~~~
> --
> 2.40.1
>
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