[PATCH 09/20] rockchip: mkimage: Add rk3576 support

Quentin Schulz quentin.schulz at cherry.de
Tue Jan 14 17:43:34 CET 2025


Hi Kever,

On 1/10/25 1:54 AM, Kever Yang wrote:
> Hi Quentin,
> 
> On 2024/11/27 00:53, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> Hi Heiko,
>>
>> On 11/21/24 3:27 PM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>> From: Xuhui Lin <xuhui.lin at rock-chips.com>
>>>
>>> Add support for rk3576 package header in mkimage tool.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>>> ---
>>>   tools/rkcommon.c | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/rkcommon.c b/tools/rkcommon.c
>>> index 3e52236b15a..d89c7d3afea 100644
>>> --- a/tools/rkcommon.c
>>> +++ b/tools/rkcommon.c
>>> @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ static struct spl_info spl_infos[] = {
>>>       { "rv1108", "RK11", 0x1800, false, RK_HEADER_V1 },
>>>       { "rv1126", "110B", 0x10000 - 0x1000, false, RK_HEADER_V1 },
>>>       { "rk3568", "RK35", 0x10000 - 0x1000, false, RK_HEADER_V2 },
>>> +    { "rk3576", "RK35", 0x80000 - 0x1000, false, RK_HEADER_V2 },
>>
>> I don't understand why we remove 0x1000 here from the size of the SRAM.
>>
>> If I go back in git history, I found 
>> 915e09814a83128fee8b87b2ee2e5f4a17e04a01 which states it's total SRAM 
>> - size used by BootROM.
>>
>> Can anyone provide feedback on how one is supposed to find this out? I 
>> think it's not the first time I'm confused by this and I'm not sure 
>> anyone's answered me before, but in any case, documenting this would 
>> be much welcome :)
> If you look this change at vendor U-Boot, you can find below commit msg:
> "Sram total size is 512KB and 4KB is used as bootrom stack."

Somehow this value changed for a couple of SoCs in vendor U-Boot so I'm 
not really trusting it ;)

> This size limit is for the first blob binary which is TPL/DDR init, and 
> after running the DDR init,
> we need to back to bootROM, so we should not touch the bootRom stack to 
> keep the bootRom
> available.
> 

Considering we don't have access to the source code of the BootROM, I 
assume we're in the case of "trust us the BootROM needs that much for 
its stack" and there's nothing we can do to verify it?

Cheers,
Quentin


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