[PATCH 2/4] spl: Make UFS available for SPL builds
Neil Armstrong
neil.armstrong at linaro.org
Thu Dec 11 08:36:04 CET 2025
Hi,
On 12/10/25 21:10, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> Add minimal infrastructure to build SPL images with support for UFS
> storage devices. This also pulls in SCSI support and charset functions,
> which are dependencies of the UFS code.
>
> With this, only a fixed offset is supported for loading the next image,
> which should be specified in CONFIG_SPL_UFS_RAW_U_BOOT_SECTOR as the
> number of 4096-byte sectors into the UFS block device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> arch/arm/include/asm/spl.h | 1 +
> common/spl/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++++++++
> common/spl/Makefile | 1 +
> common/spl/spl_ufs.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/Makefile | 3 +++
> lib/Makefile | 1 +
> 8 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index c9853f409920..c58805a724b9 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1860,6 +1860,7 @@ M: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org>
> M: Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.linux at gmail.com>
> M: Neha Malcom Francis <n-francis at ti.com>
> S: Maintained
> +F: common/spl/spl_ufs.c
> F: drivers/ufs/
>
> UPL
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/spl.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/spl.h
> index ee79a19c05c9..dd462ea6ad82 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/spl.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/spl.h
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ enum {
> BOOT_DEVICE_XIP,
> BOOT_DEVICE_BOOTROM,
> BOOT_DEVICE_SMH,
> + BOOT_DEVICE_UFS,
> BOOT_DEVICE_NONE
> };
> #endif
> diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
> index a43271671648..aa198ee44a3f 100644
> --- a/common/spl/Kconfig
> +++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
> @@ -1608,6 +1608,22 @@ config SPL_THERMAL
> automatic power-off when the temperature gets too high or low. Other
> devices may be discrete but connected on a suitable bus.
>
> +config SPL_UFS_SUPPORT
> + bool "Support loading from UFS"
> + select SPL_LOAD_BLOCK
> + help
> + Enable support for UFS in SPL. This allows
> + use of UFS devices such as hard drives and flash drivers for
> + loading U-Boot.
> +
> +config SPL_UFS_RAW_U_BOOT_SECTOR
> + hex "Address on the UFS to load U-Boot from"
> + depends on SPL_UFS_SUPPORT
> + default 0x800 if ARCH_ROCKCHIP
> + help
> + Address on the block device to load U-Boot from,
> + Units: UFS sectors (1 sector = 4096 bytes).
The UFS are usually configured with multiple LUNs, so I would expect to at least
have the LUN parameter in case we use the sector address to load the payload.
> +
> config SPL_WATCHDOG
> bool "Support watchdog drivers"
> imply SPL_WDT if !HW_WATCHDOG
> diff --git a/common/spl/Makefile b/common/spl/Makefile
> index 4c9482bd3096..e18f3cf09484 100644
> --- a/common/spl/Makefile
> +++ b/common/spl/Makefile
> @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)DFU) += spl_dfu.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)SPI_LOAD) += spl_spi.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)RAM_SUPPORT) += spl_ram.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)USB_SDP_SUPPORT) += spl_sdp.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)UFS_SUPPORT) += spl_ufs.o
> endif
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)UPL) += spl_upl.o
> diff --git a/common/spl/spl_ufs.c b/common/spl/spl_ufs.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..3a5fcd4ed7a8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/common/spl/spl_ufs.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/*
> + * (C) Copyright 2025 Alexey Charkov <alchark at gmail.com>
> + */
> +
> +#include <spl.h>
> +#include <spl_load.h>
> +#include <scsi.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
> +#include <image.h>
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> +#include <log.h>
> +
> +static ulong h_spl_load_read(struct spl_load_info *load, ulong off,
> + ulong size, void *buf)
What a weird function name, please rename to spl_ufs_load_read
> +{
> + struct blk_desc *bd = load->priv;
> + lbaint_t sector = off >> bd->log2blksz;
> + lbaint_t count = size >> bd->log2blksz;
> +
> + return blk_dread(bd, sector, count, buf) << bd->log2blksz;
> +}
> +
> +static int spl_ufs_load_image(struct spl_image_info *spl_image,
> + struct spl_boot_device *bootdev)
> +{
> + int err = -ENOSYS;
> + struct blk_desc *bd;
> + struct spl_load_info load;
> + unsigned long sector = CONFIG_SPL_UFS_RAW_U_BOOT_SECTOR;
> +
> + /* try to recognize storage devices immediately */
> + scsi_scan(false);
> + bd = blk_get_devnum_by_uclass_id(UCLASS_SCSI, 0);
> + if (!bd)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + spl_load_init(&load, h_spl_load_read, bd, bd->blksz);
> + err = spl_load(spl_image, bootdev, &load, 0, sector << bd->log2blksz);
> + if (err) {
> + puts("spl_ufs_load_image: ufs block read error\n");
> + log_debug("(error=%d)\n", err);
> + return err;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +SPL_LOAD_IMAGE_METHOD("UFS", 0, BOOT_DEVICE_UFS, spl_ufs_load_image);
> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
> index de993ae42ac7..43d0ba332818 100644
> --- a/drivers/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_USB_HOST) += usb/host/
> obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_SATA) += ata/ scsi/
> obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_LEGACY_BLOCK) += block/
> obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_THERMAL) += thermal/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_UFS_SUPPORT) += scsi/ ufs/
>
> endif
> endif
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Makefile b/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> index b76de1b22a8b..c9af60d5d03c 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/Makefile
> @@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_XPL_BUILD
> ifdef CONFIG_SPL_SATA
> obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI) += scsi.o scsi-uclass.o
> endif
> +ifdef CONFIG_SPL_UFS_SUPPORT
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI) += scsi.o scsi-uclass.o
> +endif
> endif
> diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
> index 70667f3728c2..d0ffabc2b476 100644
> --- a/lib/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/Makefile
> @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ else
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)SPRINTF) += vsprintf.o
> endif
> obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)STRTO) += strto.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_$(PHASE_)UFS_SUPPORT) += charset.o
> else
> # Main U-Boot always uses the full printf support
> obj-y += vsprintf.o strto.o
>
Thanks,
Neil
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