[Binman] Question regarding SPL symbol offsets generation

[Lukasz Majewski]

Dear Community

I'd like to ask about one issue with generation of symbol offsets in
binman [1].

In my case the CONFIG_FSPI_CONF_HEADER is defined.

Problem is with generated symbols [2] to point into 
ddr-1d-imem-fw/ddr-1d-dmem-fw/ddr-2d-imem-fw/ddr-2d-dmem-fw.

It looks like only symbols have extra offset of 0x1000 (the same as the
first section introduces) - binaries for training memory are placed
without this extra offset.

On the other hand - before this change:
SHA1: 37e50627efacd8dae18b564e9d8886a033e181bc

The u-boot-spl-ddr.bin was a separate binman "entry" (i.e. not section)
- so e.g. ddr-1d-dmem-fw {} had proper offsets (as this binary was also
  mangled into spl.bin with mkimage invocation).


Now the question - how to properly fix this issue?

I've tried to add pad-before = <0x1000>; to ddr-1d-imem-fw property
hoping to "move" this binary itself by 0x1000. However with it the
symbol of ddr-1d-dmem-fw is moved up as well.

Another option was to try alignment 'align-size' set to 0x1000 - effect
is the same as described above.

In the documentation [3] - I've found that I could use
"ProcessEntryContents()" for tweaking, but this seems to be not
eligible (as all imx8mX boards, which are going to boot from fspi) are
affected.

Maybe falling-back to 'multiple-images' [4] and generate the
u-boot-spl-ddr.bin in that way is a proper solution?


Last but not least - this problem is not present when one boots from
SD/eMMC as in this case the "fspi_conf_block" property is not present
and everything starts with 0x0 offset.

Thanks in advance for your help.


Links:

[1] -
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/arch/arm/dts/imx8mm-u-boot.dtsi?ref_type=heads#L49

[2] -
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/drivers/ddr/imx/phy/helper.c#L27

[3] -
https://github.com/ARM-software/u-boot/blob/master/tools/binman/README#L526

[4] -
https://github.com/ARM-software/u-boot/blob/master/tools/binman/README#L371


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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