[PATCH 33/33] doc: boards: amlogic: add documentation for ODROID-HC4

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Fri Apr 5 10:03:03 CEST 2024


On 3/20/23 12:46, Christian Hewitt wrote:
> Add separate documentation for the ODROID-HC4 board to ensure
> users build U-Boot using the HC4 defconfig that enables PCIe
> SATA boot. This avoids user frustration trying to boot after
> using the C4 recipe which only works from SD card.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt at gmail.com>
> ---
>   doc/board/amlogic/index.rst      |   1 +
>   doc/board/amlogic/odroid-hc4.rst | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 142 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 doc/board/amlogic/odroid-hc4.rst
> 
> diff --git a/doc/board/amlogic/index.rst b/doc/board/amlogic/index.rst
> index 7c4c161e0d..9b76bca427 100644
> --- a/doc/board/amlogic/index.rst
> +++ b/doc/board/amlogic/index.rst
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Board Documentation
>      nanopi-k2
>      odroid-c2
>      odroid-c4
> +   odroid-hc4
>      odroid-n2
>      odroid-n2l
>      odroid-go-ultra
> diff --git a/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-hc4.rst b/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-hc4.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..94c3312022
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/board/amlogic/odroid-hc4.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +
> +U-Boot for ODROID-HC4 (S905X3)
> +==============================
> +
> +ODROID-HC4 is a variant of the ODROID-C4 single board computer manufactured by Hardkernel
> +with the following specification:
> +
> + - Amlogic S905X3 Arm Cortex-A55 quad-core SoC
> + - 4GB DDR4 SDRAM
> + - 16MB XT25F128B SPI-NOR flash
> + - Gigabit Ethernet
> + - HDMI 2.1 display
> + - 7-pin GPIO header for OLED display and RTC
> + - 1x USB 2.0 host (micro)
> + - 2x SATA ports via ASM1061 PCIe to SATA controller
> + - microSD
> + - UART serial
> + - Infrared receiver
> +
> +Schematics are available on the manufacturer website.
> +
> +U-Boot Compilation
> +------------------
> +
> +.. code-block:: bash
> +
> +    $ export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-none-elf-
> +    $ make odroid-hc4_defconfig
> +    $ make
> +
> +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-hc4 /path/to/u-boot/u-boot.bin my-output-dir
> +
> +U-Boot Manual Signing
> +---------------------
> +
> +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
> +
> +    $ wget https://releases.linaro.org/archive/13.11/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
> +    $ wget https://releases.linaro.org/archive/13.11/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
> +    $ tar xvfJ gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
> +    $ tar xvfJ gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
> +    $ export PATH=$PWD/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux/bin:$PWD/gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux/bin:$PATH
> +
> +    $ DIR=odroid-hc4
> +    $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git -b odroidg12-v2015.01 $DIR
> +
> +    $ cd odroid-hc4
> +    $ make odroidc4_defconfig
> +    $ make
> +    $ export UBOOTDIR=$PWD
> +
> +Go back to mainline U-Boot source tree then:
> +
> +.. code-block:: bash
> +
> +    $ mkdir fip

Thanks a lot for providing all these board descriptions.

Prefixing with $ makes copy-/pasting multiple commands impossible.

I personally feel distracted by the prompts. But if you really want 
those $ signs displayed, please, use

     .. prompt:: bash $

       mkdir fip

Best regards

Heinrich

> +
> +    $ wget https://github.com/BayLibre/u-boot/releases/download/v2017.11-libretech-cc/blx_fix_g12a.sh -O fip/blx_fix.sh
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/build/scp_task/bl301.bin fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/build/board/hardkernel/odroidc4/firmware/acs.bin fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/bl2.bin fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/bl30.bin fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/bl31.img fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/ddr3_1d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/ddr4_1d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/ddr4_2d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/diag_lpddr4.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/lpddr3_1d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/lpddr4_1d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/lpddr4_2d.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/piei.fw fip/
> +    $ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_ddr.fw fip/
> +    $ 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
> +
> +    $ 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
> +
> +    $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl30sig --input fip/bl30_new.bin \
> +                                                    --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
> +    $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl3sig --input fip/bl31.img \
> +                                                   --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
> +    $ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12a/aml_encrypt_g12a --bl2sig --input fip/bl2_new.bin \
> +                                                   --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
> +
> +Then write U-Boot to SD or SPI-NOR with:
> +
> +.. code-block:: bash
> +
> +    $ 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=440



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