[PATCH] configs: rockchip: rock5b: enable environment

Jonas Karlman jonas at kwiboo.se
Tue Mar 5 11:09:28 CET 2024


Hi Christopher,

On 2024-03-05 10:36, Christopher Obbard wrote:
> Hi Jonas & Trevor,
> 
> On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 10:31 +0100, Jonas Karlman wrote:
>> Hi Trevor,
>>
>> On 2024-03-05 03:10, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>>> Following the pattern of other Rockchip devices, enable the U-Boot
>>> environment to be stored in MMC. This patch specifically assumes the
>>> environment will be stored on the SDcard.
>>
>> This board has SPI flash, so storing env in SPI flash is probably a
>> better default.
> 
> I agree with that.
> 
>> However, preferably the env should be stored/loaded from
>> the same device that TPL/SPL was loaded from.
> 
> Do you know if there is some mechanism in U-Boot to do this already ?
> 
> It could be useful to enable autodetection on many boards which can boot U-
> Boot from either SPI flash / eMMC / SD card.
> 

I think it should be possible with a combo of env_get_location(),
arch_env_get_location() and mmc_get_env_dev().

board/theobroma-systems/common/common.c does something like this already,
other arch also have these functions defined, for inspiration.

Regards,
Jonas

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Chris
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonas
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  configs/rock5b-rk3588_defconfig | 2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configs/rock5b-rk3588_defconfig b/configs/rock5b-
>>> rk3588_defconfig
>>> index 0595325e8107..64a242003aa1 100644
>>> --- a/configs/rock5b-rk3588_defconfig
>>> +++ b/configs/rock5b-rk3588_defconfig
>>> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ CONFIG_CMD_REGULATOR=y
>>>  CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL=y
>>>  CONFIG_OF_LIVE=y
>>>  CONFIG_OF_SPL_REMOVE_PROPS="clock-names interrupt-parent assigned-clocks
>>> assigned-clock-rates assigned-clock-parents"
>>> +CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y
>>> +CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV=1
>>>  CONFIG_SPL_DM_SEQ_ALIAS=y
>>>  CONFIG_SPL_REGMAP=y
>>>  CONFIG_SPL_SYSCON=y
>>



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