Slim Bootloader. This documentation refers to a 'bare metal' port.
+Building
+--------
+
+First, you need the following binary blobs:
+
+ * descriptor.bin - Intel flash descriptor
+ * fitimage.bin - Base flash image structure
+ * fsp_m.bin - FSP-M, for setting up SDRAM
+ * fsp_s.bin - FSP-S, for setting up Silicon
+ * vbt.bin - for setting up display
+
+These binaries do not seem to be available publicly. If you have a ROM image,
+such as santa.bin then you can do this::
+
+ cbfstool santa.bin extract -n fspm.bin -f fsp-m.bin
+ cbfstool santa.bin extract -n fsps.bin -f fsp-s.bin
+ cbfstool santa.bin extract -n vbt-santa.bin -f vbt.bin
+ mkdir tmp
+ cd tmp
+ dump_fmap -x ../santa.bin
+ mv SI_DESC ../descriptor.bin
+ mv IFWI ../fitimage.bin
+
+Put all of these files in `board/google/chromebook_coral` so they can be found
+by the build.
+
+To build::
+
+ make O=/tmp/b/chromebook_coral chromebook_coral_defconfig
+ make O=/tmp/b/chromebook_coral -s -j30 all
+
+That should produce `/tmp/b/chrombook_coral/u-boot.rom` which you can use with
+a Dediprog em100::
+
+ em100 -s -c w25q128fw -d /tmp/b/chromebook_coral/u-boot.rom -r
+
+or you can use flashrom to write it to the board. If you do that, make sure you
+have a way to restore the old ROM without booting the board. Otherwise you may
+brick it. Having said that, you may find these instructions useful if you want
+to unbrick your device:
+
+ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/cr50_stab/docs/case_closed_debugging.md
+
+You can buy Suzy-Q from Sparkfun:
+
+ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/hdctools/+/main/docs/ccd.md#suzyq-suzyqable
+
+Note that it will hang at the SPL prompt for 21 seconds. When booting into
+Chrome OS it will always select developer mode, so will wipe anything you have
+on the device if you let it proceed. You have two seconds in U-Boot to stop the
+auto-boot prompt and several seconds at the 'developer wipe' screen to stop it
+wiping the disk.
+
+Here is the console output::
+
+ U-Boot TPL 2021.04-rc1-00128-g344eefcdfec-dirty (Feb 11 2021 - 20:13:08 -0700)
+ Trying to boot from Mapped SPI
+
+ U-Boot SPL 2021.04-rc1-00128-g344eefcdfec-dirty (Feb 11 2021 - 20:13:08 -0700)
+ Trying to boot from Mapped SPI
+
+
+ U-Boot 2021.04-rc1-00128-g344eefcdfec-dirty (Feb 11 2021 - 20:13:08 -0700)
+
+ CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3450 @ 1.10GHz
+ DRAM: 3.9 GiB
+ MMC: sdmmc@1b,0: 1, emmc@1c,0: 2
+ Video: 1024x768x32 @ b0000000
+ Model: Google Coral
+ Net: No ethernet found.
+ SF: Detected w25q128fw with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB
+ Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
+ cmdline=console= loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init cros_secure oops=panic panic=-1 root=PARTUUID=${uuid}/PARTNROFF=1 rootwait rw dm_verity.error_behavior=3 dm_verity.max_bios=-1 dm_verity.dev_wait=0 dm="1 vroot none rw 1,0 3788800 verity payload=ROOT_DEV hashtree=HASH_DEV hashstart=3788800 alg=sha1 root_hexdigest=55052b629d3ac889f25a9583ea12cdcd3ea15ff8 salt=a2d4d9e574069f4fed5e3961b99054b7a4905414b60a25d89974a7334021165c" noinitrd vt.global_cursor_default=0 kern_guid=${uuid} add_efi_memmap boot=local noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 Kernel command line: "console= loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init cros_secure oops=panic panic=-1 root=PARTUUID=35c775e7-3735-d745-93e5-d9e0238f7ed0/PARTNROFF=1 rootwait rw dm_verity.error_behavior=3 dm_verity.max_bios=-1 dm_verity.dev_wait=0 dm="1 vroot none rw 1,0 3788800 verity payload=ROOT_DEV hashtree=HASH_DEV hashstart=3788800 alg=sha1 root_hexdigest=55052b629d3ac889f25a9583ea12cdcd3ea15ff8 salt=a2d4d9e574069f4fed5e3961b99054b7a4905414b60a25d89974a7334021165c" noinitrd vt.global_cursor_default=0 kern_guid=35c775e7-3735-d745-93e5-d9e0238f7ed0 add_efi_memmap boot=local noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 tpm_tis.force=1 tpm_tis.interrupts=0 nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic disablevmx=off "
+ Setup located at 00090000:
+
+ ACPI RSDP addr : 7991f000
+ E820: 14 entries
+ Addr Size Type
+ d0000000 1000000 <NULL>
+ 0 a0000 RAM
+ a0000 60000 Reserved
+ 7b000000 800000 Reserved
+ 7b800000 4800000 Reserved
+ 7ac00000 400000 Reserved
+ 100000 ff00000 RAM
+ 10000000 2151000 Reserved
+ 12151000 68aaf000 RAM
+ 100000000 80000000 RAM
+ e0000000 10000000 Reserved
+ 7991bfd0 12e4030 Reserved
+ d0000000 10000000 Reserved
+ fed10000 8000 Reserved
+ Setup sectors : 1e
+ Root flags : 1
+ Sys size : 63420
+ RAM size : 0
+ Video mode : ffff
+ Root dev : 0
+ Boot flag : 0
+ Jump : 66eb
+ Header : 53726448
+ Kernel V2
+ Version : 20d
+ Real mode switch : 0
+ Start sys : 1000
+ Kernel version : 38cc
+ @00003acc:
+ Type of loader : 80
+ U-Boot, version 0
+ Load flags : 81
+ : loaded-high can-use-heap
+ Setup move size : 8000
+ Code32 start : 100000
+ Ramdisk image : 0
+ Ramdisk size : 0
+ Bootsect kludge : 0
+ Heap end ptr : 8e00
+ Ext loader ver : 0
+ Ext loader type : 0
+ Command line ptr : 99000
+ console= loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init cros_secure oops=panic panic=-1 root=PARTUUID=35c775e7-3735-d745-93e5-d9e0238f7ed0/PARTNROFF=1 rootwait rw dm_verity.error_behavior=3 dm_verity.max_bios=-1 dm_verity.dev_wait=0 dm="1 vroot none rw 1,0 3788800 verity payload=ROOT_DEV hashtree=HASH_DEV hashstart=3788800 alg=sha1 root_hexdigest=55052b629d3ac889f25a9583ea12cdcd3ea15ff8 salt=a2d4d9e574069f4fed5e3961b99054b7a4905414b60a25d89974a7334021165c" noinitrd vt.global_cursor_default=0 kern_guid=35c775e7-3735-d745-93e5-d9e0238f7ed0 add_efi_memmap boot=local noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 tpm_tis.force=1 tpm_tis.interrupts=0 nmi_watchdog=panic,lapic disablevmx=off
+ Initrd addr max : 7fffffff
+ Kernel alignment : 200000
+ Relocatable kernel : 1
+ Min alignment : 15
+ : 200000
+ Xload flags : 3
+ : 64-bit-entry can-load-above-4gb
+ Cmdline size : 7ff
+ Hardware subarch : 0
+ HW subarch data : 0
+ Payload offset : 26e
+ Payload length : 612045
+ Setup data : 0
+ Pref address : 1000000
+ Init size : 1383000
+ Handover offset : 0
+
+ Starting kernel ...
+
+ Timer summary in microseconds (17 records):
+ Mark Elapsed Stage
+ 0 0 reset
+ 155,279 155,279 TPL
+ 237,088 81,809 end phase
+ 237,533 445 SPL
+ 816,456 578,923 end phase
+ 817,357 901 board_init_f
+ 1,061,751 244,394 board_init_r
+ 1,402,435 340,684 id=64
+ 1,430,071 27,636 main_loop
+ 5,532,057 4,101,986 start_kernel
+
+ Accumulated time:
+ 685 dm_r
+ 2,817 fast_spi
+ 33,095 dm_spl
+ 52,468 dm_f
+ 208,242 fsp-m
+ 242,221 fsp-s
+ 332,710 mmap_spi
+
+
Boot flow - TPL
---------------
ff000000 Bottom of ROM
fefc0000 Top of CAR region
fef96000 Stack for FSP-M
- fef40000 59000 FSP-M
+ fef40000 59000 FSP-M (also VPL loads here)
fef11000 SPL loaded here
fef10000 CONFIG_BLOBLIST_ADDR
fef10000 Stack top in TPL, SPL and U-Boot before relocation
1110000 CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
+Speeding up SPL for development
+-------------------------------
+
+The 21-second wait for memory training is annoying during development, since
+every new image incurs this cost when booting. There is no cache to fall back on
+since that area of the image is empty on start-up.
+
+You can add suitable cache contents to the image to fix this, for development
+purposes only, like this::
+
+ # Read the image back after booting through SPL
+ em100 -s -c w25q128fw -u image.bin
+
+ # Extract the two cache regions
+ binman extract -i image.bin extra *cache
+
+ # Move them into the source directory
+ mv *cache board/google/chromebook_coral
+
+Then add something like this to the devicetree::
+
+ #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_MRC) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FSP_VERSION2)
+ /* Provide initial contents of the MRC data for faster development */
+ rw-mrc-cache {
+ type = "blob";
+ /* Mirror the offset in spi-flash@0 */
+ offset = <0xff8e0000>;
+ size = <0x10000>;
+ filename = "board/google/chromebook_coral/rw-mrc-cache";
+ };
+ rw-var-mrc-cache {
+ type = "blob";
+ size = <0x1000>;
+ filename = "board/google/chromebook_coral/rw-var-mrc-cache";
+ };
+ #endif
+
+This tells binman to put the cache contents in the same place as the
+`rw-mrc-cache` and `rw-var-mrc-cache` regions defined by the SPI-flash driver.
+
+
Supported peripherals
---------------------
-- UART
-- SPI flash
-- Video
-- MMC (dev 0) and micro-SD (dev 1)
-- Chrome OS EC
-- Keyboard
-- USB
+The following have U-Boot drivers:
+
+ - UART
+ - SPI flash
+ - Video
+ - MMC (dev 0) and micro-SD (dev 1)
+ - Chrome OS EC
+ - Cr50 (security chip)
+ - Keyboard
+ - USB
To do
-----
- Finish peripherals
- - left-side USB
- - USB-C
- - Cr50 (security chip: a basic driver is running but not included here)
- Sound (Intel I2S support exists, but need da7219 driver)
- - Various minor features supported by LPC, etc.
-- Booting Chrome OS, e.g. with verified boot
-- Integrate with Chrome OS vboot
-- Improvements to booting from coreboot (i.e. as a coreboot target)
- Use FSP-T binary instead of our own CAR implementation
- Use the official FSP package instead of the coreboot one
-- Enable all CPU cores
- Suspend / resume
-- ACPI
+- Fix MMC which seems to try to read even though the card is empty
+- Fix USB3 crash "WARN halted endpoint, queueing URB anyway."
Credits
projects / platform / kernel / u-boot.git / commitdiff