[PATCH v1 1/4] arm: k3: select tifsstub via board_fit_config_name_match
Akashdeep Kaur
a-kaur at ti.com
Tue Jun 2 09:04:41 CEST 2026
Hi Aristo,
On 01/06/26 19:27, Sverdlin, Alexander wrote:
> Hi Aristo,
>
> On Thu, 2026-05-28 at 13:27 +0000, Aristo Chen wrote:
>> TI K3 AM62x/AM62Ax/AM62Px boards carry two or three mutually-exclusive
>> tifsstub variants in their tispl.bin FIT images, all at the same load
>> address. The existing approach loads every variant and then discards
>> the wrong ones at runtime via a *p_size = 0 hack in
>> board_fit_image_post_process(). Switch to selecting the appropriate
>> FIT configuration up front via board_fit_config_name_match() so only
>> the correct tifsstub is loaded in the first place.
>>
>> board_fit_config_name_match() is invoked by the R5 SPL during FIT
>> config selection. get_device_type() is a simple register read that is
>> available at that point, so the security state can be determined
>> early. The matching logic is factored into
>> k3_fit_config_match_security_state() in arch/arm/mach-k3/common.c so
>> it can be shared by any K3 board that wants this scheme. It matches
>> configurations by a suffix appended to the description string:
>>
>> -hs-se -> HS-SE (K3_DEVICE_TYPE_HS_SE)
>> -hs-fs -> HS-FS (K3_DEVICE_TYPE_HS_FS)
>> -gp -> GP (K3_DEVICE_TYPE_GP)
>>
>> Configurations without a security-state suffix (e.g. u-boot.img) do
>> not match and fall through to the DTS-specified default config
>> naturally.
>>
>> Each TI EVM board defines its board_fit_config_name_match() as a thin
>> wrapper around the shared helper:
>> - board/ti/am62x/evm.c (AM625 SK: hs-se, hs-fs, gp)
>> - board/ti/am62ax/evm.c (AM62A SK: hs-se, hs-fs, gp)
>> - board/ti/am62px/evm.c (AM62P SK: hs-se, hs-fs, gp)
>>
>> FIT configurations are split per security state in:
>> - arch/arm/dts/k3-am625-sk-binman.dtsi
>> (ti-falcon, ti-spl, ti-spl_unsigned: conf-hs-se/conf-hs-fs/conf-gp)
>> - arch/arm/dts/k3-am62a-sk-binman.dtsi
>> (ti-falcon, ti-spl: conf-hs-se/conf-hs-fs; no GP variant on AM62A)
>> - arch/arm/dts/k3-am62p-sk-binman.dtsi
>> (ti-falcon, ti-spl: conf-hs-se/conf-hs-fs; no GP variant on AM62P)
>>
>> The runtime filter in board_fit_image_post_process() is intentionally
>> left in place. It becomes redundant once every board using the AM62x
>> family dtsi files migrates to per-state configurations. The dtsi for
>> phytec phycore and toradex verdin boards is updated by separate
>> patches in this series, and the now-redundant runtime filter is
>> removed by the final patch in the series.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aristo Chen <aristo.chen at canonical.com>
>
> the patch looks good to me and makes sense to me, but I don't have a
> setup with TIFS stubs to test, therefore only
>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at siemens.com>
>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/dts/k3-am625-sk-binman.dtsi | 61 ++++++++++++++++++------
>> arch/arm/dts/k3-am62a-sk-binman.dtsi | 28 +++++++----
>> arch/arm/dts/k3-am62p-sk-binman.dtsi | 28 +++++++----
>> arch/arm/mach-k3/common.c | 27 +++++++++++
>> arch/arm/mach-k3/common.h | 10 ----
>> arch/arm/mach-k3/include/mach/hardware.h | 11 +++++
>> board/ti/am62ax/evm.c | 8 ++++
>> board/ti/am62px/evm.c | 8 ++++
>> board/ti/am62x/evm.c | 8 ++++
>> 9 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>>
>
Tested these changes and patch 4 changes to be working on AM62PX HS-FS
device and AM62X HS-SE device. Tested deep sleep suspend resume as if
stub is not loaded properly, the resume will fail.
Tested-by: Akashdeep Kaur <a-kaur at ti.com>
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