1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
3 # Copyright (C) 2015 Google. Inc
4 # Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
9 A wide range of Rockchip SoCs are supported in mainline U-Boot
17 - Firefly RK3288 board or something else with a supported RockChip SoC
18 - Power connection to 5V using the supplied micro-USB power cable
19 - Separate USB serial cable attached to your computer and the Firefly
20 (connect to the micro-USB connector below the logo)
22 - openssl (sudo apt-get install openssl)
23 - Serial UART connection [4]
24 - Suitable ARM cross compiler, e.g.:
25 sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi
31 At present 11 RK3288 boards are supported:
33 - EVB RK3288 - use evb-rk3288 configuration
34 - Firefly RK3288 - use firefly-rk3288 configuration
35 - Hisense Chromebook - use chromebook_jerry configuration
36 - Asus C100P Chromebook - use chromebook_minnie configuration
37 - Asus Chromebit - use chromebook_mickey configuration
38 - MiQi RK3288 - use miqi-rk3288 configuration
39 - phyCORE-RK3288 RDK - use phycore-rk3288 configuration
40 - PopMetal RK3288 - use popmetal-rk3288 configuration
41 - Radxa Rock 2 - use rock2 configuration
42 - Tinker RK3288 - use tinker-rk3288 configuration
43 - Vyasa RK3288 - use vyasa-rk3288 configuration
45 Two RK3036 boards are supported:
47 - EVB RK3036 - use evb-rk3036 configuration
48 - Kylin - use kylin_rk3036 configuration
50 Two RK3308 boards are supported:
52 - EVB RK3308 - use evb-rk3308 configuration
53 - ROC-CC-RK3308 - use roc-cc-rk3308 configuration
55 Two RK3328 board are supported:
57 - EVB RK3328 - use evb-rk3328_defconfig
58 - Pine64 Rock64 board - use rock64-rk3328_defconfig
60 Size RK3399 boards are supported (aarch64):
62 - EBV RK3399 - use evb_rk3399 configuration
63 - Firefly RK3399 - use the firefly_rk3399 configuration
64 - Puma - use puma_rk3399 configuration
65 - Ficus - use ficus-rk3399 configuration
66 - Rock960 (Vamrs) - use rock960-rk3399 configuration
67 - Bob - use chromebook_bob configuration
69 Four RK3368 boards are supported:
71 - Sheep - use sheep-rk3368 configuration
72 - Lion - use lion-rk3368 configuration
73 - Geekbox - use geekbox configuration
74 - EVB PX5 - use evb-px5 configuration
76 One RK3128 board is supported:
78 - EVB RK3128 - use evb-rk3128 configuration
80 One RK3229 board is supported:
82 - EVB RK3229 - use evb-rk3229 configuration
84 Two RV1108 boards are supported:
86 - EVB RV1108 - use evb-rv1108 configuration
87 - Elgin R1 - use elgin-rv1108 configuration
89 One RV3188 baord is supported:
91 - Raxda Rock - use rock configuration
96 1. To build RK3288 board:
98 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make O=firefly firefly-rk3288_defconfig all
100 (or you can use another cross compiler if you prefer)
102 2. To build RK3308 board:
104 => git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin.git
107 => cd /path/to/u-boot
108 => export BL31=/path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3308_bl31_v2.22.elf
109 => make roc-cc-rk3308_defconfig
110 => make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- all
111 => ./tools/mkimage -n rk3308 -T rksd -d /path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3308_ddr_589MHz_uart2_m0_v1.26.bin idbloader.img
112 => cat spl/u-boot-spl.bin >> idbloader.img
114 3. To build RK3399 board:
116 Option 1: Package the image with Rockchip miniloader:
120 => cd /path/to/u-boot
121 => make nanopi-neo4-rk3399_defconfig
126 => git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin.git
131 => ./tools/trust_merger RKTRUST/RK3399TRUST.ini
136 => ./tools/loaderimage --pack --uboot /path/to/u-boot/u-boot-dtb.bin uboot.img
138 (Get trust.img and uboot.img)
140 Option 2: Package the image with SPL:
142 - Export cross compiler path for aarch64
148 => git clone git://git.theobroma-systems.com/arm-trusted-firmware.git
149 => cd arm-trusted-firmware
150 => make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399 bl31
153 => export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.bin
155 For rest of rk3399 boards.
157 => git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git
158 => cd arm-trusted-firmware
160 (export cross compiler path for Cortex-M0 MCU likely arm-none-eabi-)
162 => make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399
165 => export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.elf
167 - Compile PMU M0 firmware
169 This is optional for most of the rk3399 boards and required only for Puma board.
171 => git clone git://git.theobroma-systems.com/rk3399-cortex-m0.git
172 => cd rk3399-cortex-m0
174 (export cross compiler path for Cortex-M0 PMU)
175 => make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-cortex_m0-eabi-
177 (export rk3399m0.bin)
178 => export PMUM0=/path/to/rk3399-cortex-m0/rk3399m0.bin
182 => cd /path/to/u-boot
183 => make orangepi-rk3399_defconfig
186 (Get spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin, u-boot.itb images and some boards would get
187 spl/u-boot-spl.bin since it doesn't enable CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL
189 If TPL enabled on the target, get tpl/u-boot-tpl-dtb.bin or tpl/u-boot-tpl.bin
190 if CONFIG_TPL_OF_CONTROL not enabled)
192 Writing to the board with USB
193 =============================
195 For USB to work you must get your board into ROM boot mode, either by erasing
196 your MMC or (perhaps) holding the recovery button when you boot the board.
197 To erase your MMC, you can boot into Linux and type (as root)
199 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
201 Connect your board's OTG port to your computer.
203 To create a suitable image and write it to the board:
205 ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rkimage -d \
206 ./firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
207 cat out | openssl rc4 -K 7c4e0304550509072d2c7b38170d1711 | rkflashtool l
209 If all goes well you should something like:
211 U-Boot SPL 2015.07-rc1-00383-ge345740-dirty (Jun 03 2015 - 10:06:49)
212 Card did not respond to voltage select!
213 spl: mmc init failed with error: -17
214 ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
216 You will need to reset the board before each time you try. Yes, that's all
217 it does so far. If support for the Rockchip USB protocol or DFU were added
218 in SPL then we could in principle load U-Boot and boot to a prompt from USB
219 as several other platforms do. However it does not seem to be possible to
220 use the existing boot ROM code from SPL.
223 Writing to the eMMC with USB on ROC-RK3308-CC
224 =============================================
225 For USB to work you must get your board into Bootrom mode,
226 either by erasing the eMMC or short circuit the GND and D0
229 Connect the board to your computer via tyepc.
230 => rkdeveloptool db rk3308_loader_v1.26.117.bin
231 => rkdeveloptool wl 0x40 idbloader.img
232 => rkdeveloptool wl 0x4000 u-boot.itb
235 Then you will see the boot log from Debug UART at baud rate 1500000:
237 REGFB: 0x00000032, 0x00000032
241 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=14 Size=256MB
243 Returning to boot ROM...
245 U-Boot SPL 2020.01-rc1-00225-g34b681327f (Nov 14 2019 - 10:58:04 +0800)
246 Trying to boot from MMC1
247 INFO: Preloader serial: 2
248 NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(release):30f1405
249 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 17:08:28, Sep 23 2019
250 INFO: Lastlog: last=0x100000, realtime=0x102000, size=0x2000
251 INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized
252 INFO: Using opteed sec cpu_context!
253 INFO: boot cpu mask: 1
254 INFO: plat_rockchip_pmu_init: pd status 0xe b
255 INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services
256 WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will rK
257 ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast
258 INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
259 INFO: Entry point address = 0x600000
263 U-Boot 2020.01-rc1-00225-g34b681327f (Nov 14 2019 - 10:58:47 +0800)
265 Model: Firefly ROC-RK3308-CC board
267 MMC: dwmmc@ff480000: 0, dwmmc@ff490000: 1
268 rockchip_dnl_key_pressed read adc key val failed
269 Net: No ethernet found.
270 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
271 Card did not respond to voltage select!
272 switch to partitions #0, OK
273 mmc1(part 0) is current device
275 Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
276 Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
277 151 bytes read in 3 ms (48.8 KiB/s)
279 Retrieving file: /Image
280 14737920 bytes read in 377 ms (37.3 MiB/s)
281 append: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff0c0000 console=ttyS2,1500000n8
282 Retrieving file: /rk3308-roc-cc.dtb
283 28954 bytes read in 4 ms (6.9 MiB/s)
284 Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000
285 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000
286 ## Loading Device Tree to 000000000df3a000, end 000000000df44119 ... OK
289 [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd042]
290 [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.4.0-rc1-00040-g4dc2d508fa47-dirty (andy@B150) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170404 (Linaro GCC 6.3-209
291 [ 0.000000] Machine model: Firefly ROC-RK3308-CC board
292 [ 0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at MMIO32 0x00000000ff0c0000 (options '')
293 [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
295 Booting from an SD card
296 =======================
298 To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/sdc):
300 ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
301 firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
302 sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64 && \
303 sudo dd if=firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
305 This puts the Rockchip header and SPL image first and then places the U-Boot
306 image at block 16384 (i.e. 8MB from the start of the SD card). This
307 corresponds with this setting in U-Boot:
309 #define CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR 0x4000
311 Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
314 U-Boot 2016.01-rc2-00309-ge5bad3b-dirty (Jan 02 2016 - 23:41:59 -0700)
316 Model: Radxa Rock 2 Square
318 MMC: dwmmc@ff0f0000: 0, dwmmc@ff0c0000: 1
319 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
322 Out: vop@ff940000.vidconsole
324 Net: Net Initialization Skipped
326 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
329 The rockchip bootrom can load and boot an initial spl, then continue to
330 load a second-stage bootloader (ie. U-Boot) as soon as the control is returned
331 to the bootrom. Both the RK3288 and the RK3036 use this special boot sequence.
332 The configuration option enabling this is:
334 CONFIG_SPL_ROCKCHIP_BACK_TO_BROM=y
336 You can create the image via the following operations:
338 ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
339 firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
340 cat firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.bin >> out && \
341 sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
344 ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
345 firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin:firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.bin \
347 sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
349 If you have an HDMI cable attached you should see a video console.
351 For evb_rk3036 board:
352 ./evb-rk3036/tools/mkimage -n rk3036 -T rksd -d evb-rk3036/spl/u-boot-spl.bin out && \
353 cat evb-rk3036/u-boot-dtb.bin >> out && \
354 sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
357 ./evb-rk3036/tools/mkimage -n rk3036 -T rksd -d \
358 evb-rk3036/spl/u-boot-spl.bin:evb-rk3036/u-boot-dtb.bin out && \
359 sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
361 Note: rk3036 SDMMC and debug uart use the same iomux, so if you boot from SD, the
362 debug uart must be disabled
365 Booting from an SD card on RK3288 with TPL
366 ==========================================
368 Since the size of SPL can't be exceeded 0x8000 bytes in RK3288, it is not possible add
369 new SPL features like Falcon mode or etc.
371 So introduce TPL so-that adding new features to SPL is possible because now TPL should
372 run minimal with code like DDR, clock etc and rest of new features in SPL.
374 As of now TPL is added on Vyasa-RK3288 board.
376 To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/mmcblk0):
378 sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64 &&
379 sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384
381 Booting from an SD card on RK3188
382 =================================
384 For rk3188 boards the general storage onto the card stays the same as
385 described above, but the image creation needs a bit more care.
387 The bootrom of rk3188 expects to find a small 1kb loader which returns
388 control to the bootrom, after which it will load the real loader, which
389 can then be up to 29kb in size and does the regular ddr init. This is
390 handled by a single image (built as the SPL stage) that tests whether
391 it is handled for the first or second time via code executed from the
394 Additionally the rk3188 requires everything the bootrom loads to be
395 rc4-encrypted. Except for the very first stage the bootrom always reads
396 and decodes 2kb pages, so files should be sized accordingly.
398 # copy tpl, pad to 1020 bytes and append spl
399 tools/mkimage -n rk3188 -T rksd -d spl/u-boot-spl.bin out
401 # truncate, encode and append u-boot.bin
402 truncate -s %2048 u-boot.bin
403 cat u-boot.bin | split -b 512 --filter='openssl rc4 -K 7C4E0304550509072D2C7B38170D1711' >> out
405 Booting from an SD card on Pine64 Rock64 (RK3328)
406 =================================================
408 For Rock64 rk3328 board the following three parts are required:
409 TPL, SPL, and the u-boot image tree blob.
411 - Write TPL/SPL image at 64 sector
413 => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64
415 - Write u-boot image tree blob at 16384 sector
417 => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384
419 Booting from an SD card on RK3399
420 =================================
422 To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/sdc):
424 Option 1: Package the image with Rockchip miniloader:
426 - Create idbloader.img
428 => cd /path/to/u-boot
429 => ./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rksd -d /path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3399_ddr_800MHz_v1.20.bin idbloader.img
430 => cat /path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3399_miniloader_v1.19.bin >> idbloader.img
432 - Write idbloader.img at 64 sector
434 => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdc seek=64
436 - Write trust.img at 24576
438 => sudo dd if=trust.img of=/dev/sdc seek=24576
440 - Write uboot.img at 16384 sector
442 => sudo dd if=uboot.img of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
445 Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
448 DDR Version 1.20 20190314
450 Channel 0: DDR3, 933MHz
451 Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=1024MB
453 ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20
454 pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x10006281, stride = 0x17
456 Boot1: 2019-03-14, version: 1.19
459 mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
460 mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
462 mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
463 mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
465 mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
466 mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
472 FwPartOffset=2000 , 0
473 StorageInit ok = 45266
475 SecureInit read PBA: 0x4
476 SecureInit read PBA: 0x404
477 SecureInit read PBA: 0x804
478 SecureInit read PBA: 0xc04
479 SecureInit read PBA: 0x1004
480 SecureInit read PBA: 0x1404
481 SecureInit read PBA: 0x1804
482 SecureInit read PBA: 0x1c04
483 SecureInit ret = 0, SecureMode = 0
484 atags_set_bootdev: ret:(0)
485 GPT 0x3380ec0 signature is wrong
487 GPT 0x3380ec0 signature is wrong
489 LoadTrust Addr:0x4000
491 Load uboot, ReadLba = 2000
492 hdr 0000000003380880 + 0x0:0x88,0x41,0x3e,0x97,0xe6,0x61,0x54,0x23,0xe9,0x5a,0xd1,0x2b,0xdc,0x2f,0xf9,0x35,
494 Load OK, addr=0x200000, size=0x9c9c0
496 NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):370ab80
497 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 09:23:41, Mar 4 2019
498 NOTICE: BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1
499 INFO: GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3
500 INFO: Using opteed sec cpu_context!
501 INFO: boot cpu mask: 0
502 INFO: plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1181): pd status 3e
503 INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services
504 INFO: BL31: Initializing BL32
505 INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:337: Initializing (1.1.0-195-g8f090d20 #6 Fri Dec 7 06:11:20 UTC 2018 aarch64)
507 INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:338: Release version: 1.2
509 INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_teecore:83: teecore inits done
510 INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
511 INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000
515 U-Boot 2019.04-rc4-00136-gfd121f9641-dirty (Apr 16 2019 - 14:02:47 +0530)
517 Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO4
519 MMC: dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
520 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
525 Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO4
526 Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000
527 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
530 Option 2: Package the image with SPL:
532 - Prefix rk3399 header to SPL image
534 => cd /path/to/u-boot
535 => ./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rksd -d spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out
537 - Write prefixed SPL at 64th sector
539 => sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
541 - Write U-Boot proper at 16384 sector
543 => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
546 Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
549 U-Boot SPL board init
550 Trying to boot from MMC1
553 U-Boot 2019.01-00004-g14db5ee998 (Mar 11 2019 - 13:18:41 +0530)
555 Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
557 MMC: dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
558 Loading Environment from MMC... OK
562 Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
563 Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000
564 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
567 Option 3: Package the image with TPL:
569 - Write tpl+spl at 64th sector
571 => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdc seek=64
573 - Write U-Boot proper at 16384 sector
575 => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
578 Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
581 U-Boot TPL board init
582 Trying to boot from BOOTROM
583 Returning to boot ROM...
585 U-Boot SPL board init
586 Trying to boot from MMC1
589 U-Boot 2019.07-rc1-00241-g5b3244767a (May 08 2019 - 10:51:06 +0530)
591 Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
593 MMC: dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
594 Loading Environment from MMC... OK
598 Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
599 Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000
600 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
603 Using fastboot on rk3288
604 ========================
605 - Write GPT partition layout to mmc device which fastboot want to use it to
608 => gpt write mmc 1 $partitions
610 - Invoke fastboot command to prepare
614 - Start fastboot request on PC
616 fastboot -i 0x2207 flash loader evb-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin
618 You should see something like:
621 WARNING: unknown variable: partition-type:loader
622 Starting download of 357796 bytes
624 downloading of 357796 bytes finished
626 ........ wrote 357888 bytes to 'loader'
631 To write an image that boots from SPI flash (e.g. for the Haier Chromebook or
634 ./chromebook_jerry/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rkspi \
635 -d chromebook_jerry/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin spl.bin && \
636 dd if=spl.bin of=spl-out.bin bs=128K conv=sync && \
637 cat spl-out.bin chromebook_jerry/u-boot-dtb.img >out.bin && \
638 dd if=out.bin of=out.bin.pad bs=4M conv=sync
640 This converts the SPL image to the required SPI format by adding the Rockchip
641 header and skipping every second 2KB block. Then the U-Boot image is written at
642 offset 128KB and the whole image is padded to 4MB which is the SPI flash size.
643 The position of U-Boot is controlled with this setting in U-Boot:
645 #define CONFIG_SYS_SPI_U_BOOT_OFFS 0x20000
647 If you have a Dediprog em100pro connected then you can write the image with:
649 sudo em100 -s -c GD25LQ32 -d out.bin.pad -r
651 When booting you should see something like:
653 U-Boot SPL 2015.07-rc2-00215-g9a58220-dirty (Jun 23 2015 - 12:11:32)
656 U-Boot 2015.07-rc2-00215-g9a58220-dirty (Jun 23 2015 - 12:11:32 -0600)
661 Using default environment
671 Immediate priorities are:
675 - Run CPU at full speed (code exists but we only see ~60 DMIPS maximum)
677 - Boot U-Boot proper over USB OTG (at present only SPL works)
683 There are plenty of patches in the links below to help with this work.
685 [1] https://github.com/rkchrome/uboot.git
686 [2] https://github.com/linux-rockchip/u-boot-rockchip.git branch u-boot-rk3288
687 [3] https://github.com/linux-rockchip/rkflashtool.git
688 [4] http://wiki.t-firefly.com/index.php/Firefly-RK3288/Serial_debug/en
693 rkimage.c produces an SPL image suitable for sending directly to the boot ROM
694 over USB OTG. This is a very simple format - just the string RK32 (as 4 bytes)
695 followed by u-boot-spl-dtb.bin.
697 The boot ROM loads image to 0xff704000 which is in the internal SRAM. The SRAM
698 starts at 0xff700000 and extends to 0xff718000 where we put the stack.
703 rksd.c produces an image consisting of 32KB of empty space, a header and
704 u-boot-spl-dtb.bin. The header is defined by 'struct header0_info' although
705 most of the fields are unused by U-Boot. We just need to specify the
706 signature, a flag and the block offset and size of the SPL image.
708 The header occupies a single block but we pad it out to 4 blocks. The header
709 is encoding using RC4 with the key 7c4e0304550509072d2c7b38170d1711. The SPL
710 image can be encoded too but we don't do that.
712 The maximum size of u-boot-spl-dtb.bin which the boot ROM will read is 32KB,
713 or 0x40 blocks. This is a severe and annoying limitation. There may be a way
714 around this limitation, since there is plenty of SRAM, but at present the
715 board refuses to boot if this limit is exceeded.
717 The image produced is padded up to a block boundary (512 bytes). It should be
718 written to the start of an SD card using dd.
720 Since this image is set to load U-Boot from the SD card at block offset,
721 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR, dd should be used to write
722 u-boot-dtb.img to the SD card at that offset. See above for instructions.
727 rkspi.c produces an image consisting of a header and u-boot-spl-dtb.bin. The
728 resulting image is then spread out so that only the first 2KB of each 4KB
729 sector is used. The header is the same as with rksd and the maximum size is
730 also 32KB (before spreading). The image should be written to the start of
733 See above for instructions on how to write a SPI image.
738 You can use this script to create #defines for SoC register access. See the
742 Device tree and driver model
743 ----------------------------
745 Where possible driver model is used to provide a structure to the
746 functionality. Device tree is used for configuration. However these have an
747 overhead and in SPL with a 32KB size limit some shortcuts have been taken.
748 In general all Rockchip drivers should use these features, with SPL-specific
749 modifications where required.
752 ----------------------------
754 Rockchip use a unified GPT partition layout in open source support.
755 With this GPT partition layout, uboot can be compatilbe with other components,
756 like miniloader, trusted-os, arm-trust-firmware.
758 There are some documents about partitions in the links below.
759 http://rockchip.wikidot.com/partitions
762 Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
764 Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>