[PATCH 07/10] board: samsung: e850-96: Add bootdev var to choose boot device

Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko at linaro.org
Thu Aug 7 00:27:07 CEST 2025


Provide a way for the user to select which storage to load the LDFW
firmware from, by setting the corresponding environment variables:
  - bootdev: block device interface name
  - bootdevnum: block device number
  - bootdevpart: partition number

This might be useful when the OS is flashed and booted from a different
storage device than eMMC (e.g. USB flash drive). In this case it should
be sufficient to just set:

    => setenv bootdev usb
    => env save

assuming that the USB drive layout follows the same partitioning scheme
as defined in $partitions.

Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
---
 board/samsung/e850-96/e850-96.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/board/samsung/e850-96/e850-96.c b/board/samsung/e850-96/e850-96.c
index b5f6ba23432e..3df241edde2a 100644
--- a/board/samsung/e850-96/e850-96.c
+++ b/board/samsung/e850-96/e850-96.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <init.h>
 #include <mapmem.h>
 #include <net.h>
+#include <usb.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include "fw.h"
 #include "pmic.h"
@@ -136,21 +137,40 @@ static void setup_ethaddr(void)
 		eth_env_set_enetaddr("ethaddr", mac_addr);
 }
 
-int board_late_init(void)
+/*
+ * Call this in board_late_init() to avoid probing block devices before
+ * efi_init_early().
+ */
+void load_firmware(void)
 {
+	const char *ifname;
+	ulong dev, part;
 	int err;
 
-	setup_serial();
-	setup_ethaddr();
-
-	/*
-	 * Do this in board_late_init() to make sure MMC is not probed before
-	 * efi_init_early().
-	 */
-	err = load_ldfw(EMMC_IFNAME, EMMC_DEV_NUM, EMMC_ESP_PART,
-			LDFW_NWD_ADDR);
+	ifname = env_get("bootdev");
+	if (!ifname)
+		ifname = EMMC_IFNAME;
+	dev = env_get_ulong("bootdevnum", 10, EMMC_DEV_NUM);
+	part = env_get_ulong("bootdevpart", 10, EMMC_ESP_PART);
+
+	if (!strcmp(ifname, "usb")) {
+		printf("Starting USB (bootdev=usb)...\n");
+		err = usb_init();
+		if (err)
+			return;
+	}
+
+	printf("Loading LDFW firmware (from %s %ld)...\n", ifname, dev);
+	err = load_ldfw(ifname, dev, part, LDFW_NWD_ADDR);
 	if (err)
 		printf("ERROR: LDFW loading failed (%d)\n", err);
+}
+
+int board_late_init(void)
+{
+	setup_serial();
+	setup_ethaddr();
+	load_firmware();
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.39.5



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