Allwinner devices support SPI flash as one of the possible
bootable media type. The SPI flash chip needs to be connected
to SPI0 pins (port C) to make this work. More information is
available at:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SPI_flash
This patch adds the initial support for booting from SPI flash.
The existing SPI frameworks are not used in order to reduce the
SPL code size. Right now the SPL size grows by ~370 bytes when
CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option is enabled.
While there are no popular Allwinner devices with SPI flash at
the moment, testing can be done using a SPI flash module (it
can be bought for ~2$ on ebay) and jumper wires with the boards,
which expose relevant pins on the expansion header. The SPI flash
chips themselves are very cheap (some prices are even listed as
low as 4 cents) and should not cost much if somebody decides to
design a development board with an SPI flash chip soldered on
the PCB.
Another nice feature of the SPI flash is that it can be safely
accessed in a device-independent way (since we know that the
boot ROM is already probing these pins during the boot time).
And if, for example, Olimex boards opted to use SPI flash instead
of EEPROM, then they would have been able to have U-Boot installed
in the SPI flash now and boot the rest of the system from the SATA
hard drive. Hopefully we may see new interesting Allwinner based
development boards in the future, now that the software support
for the SPI flash is in a better shape :-)
Testing can be done by enabling the CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUNXI option
in a board defconfig, then building U-Boot and finally flashing
the resulting u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin binary over USB OTG with
a help of the sunxi-fel tool:
sunxi-fel spiflash-write 0 u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
The device needs to be switched into FEL (USB recovery) mode first.
The most suitable boards for testing are Orange Pi PC and Pine64.
Because these boards are cheap, have no built-in NAND/eMMC and
expose SPI0 pins on the Raspberry Pi compatible expansion header.
The A13-OLinuXino-Micro board also can be used.
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Revise the content based on the v2 additions. This is kept as a separate
patch to avoid confusing those who have already reviewed the v1 series.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Add a simple test which checks that the of-platdata system is working
correctly. The sequence is as follows:
- SPL starts up and probes all the UCLASS_MISC drivers
- There are 3 of these in sandbox.dts
- Therefore there should be 3 U_BOOT_DEVICE() declarations in dt-platdata.c
- These should produce 3 sandbox_spl_test devices
- Each device prints out its platform data when probed
- This test checks for this output and compares it against expectations
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When sandbox SPL is enabled we want to start that rather than U-Boot proper,
since some tests may rely on running it first.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the SPL and U-Boot consoles both present the same error message
when the expected console output does not appear. Add "SPL" to the SPL error
message to resolve this ambiguity.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This board can sometimes be used for tests. Handle it the same way as
sandbox.
Note: I plan to drop the sandbox_spl board at some point and merge its
features into sandbox. So this commit may not be necessary.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
As an experiment, move this board over to use of-platdata. This means that
its SPL configuration will come from C structures generated at build-time
from the device tree, instead of coming from the device tree at run-time.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for of-platdata with rk3288 SDRAM initr. This requires decoding
the of-platdata struct and setting up the device from that. Also the driver
needs to be renamed to match the string that of-platdata will search for.
The platform data is copied from the of-platdata structure to the one used
by the driver. This allows the same code to be used with device tree and
of-platdata.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is more correct to avoid touching the device tree in the probe() method.
Update the driver to work this way. Note that only SPL needs to fiddle with
the SDRAM registers, so decoding the platform data fully is not necessary in
U-Boot proper.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The syscon devices all end up having diffent driver names with of-platdata,
since the driver name comes from the first string in the compatible list.
Add separate device declarations for each one, and add a bind method to set
up driver_data correctly.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for of-platdata with rk3288. This requires disabling access to
the device tree and renaming the driver to match the string that of-platdata
will search for.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for of-platdata with rk3288. This requires decoding the
of-platdata struct and setting up the devices from that. Also the driver
needs to be renamed to match the string that of-platdata will search for.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is more correct to avoid touching the device tree in the probe() method.
Update the driver to work this way. Also add an error check on grf since if
that fails then we should not use it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for of-platdata with rk3288. This requires decoding the
of-platdata struct and setting up the device from that. Also the driver
needs to be renamed to match the string that of-platdata will search for.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is more correct to avoid touching the device tree in the probe() method.
Update the driver to work this way.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add an extra byte so that this data is not byteswapped. Add a comment to
the code to explain the purpose.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a driver that works with of-platdata. It sets up the platform data and
calls the standard ns16550 driver.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
With of-platdata this driver cannot know the format of the of-platdata
struct, so we cannot use generic code for accessing the of-platdata. Each
SoC that uses this driver will need to set up ns16550's platdata for it.
So don't compile in the generic code.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add an implementation of this function which mirrors the functions of the
automatic device-tree implementation. This can be used with of-platdata to
create regmaps.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We plan to add a new way of creating a regmap for of-platdata. Move the
allocation code into a separate function so that it can be shared.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Devices which use of-platdata have their own platdata. However, in many
cases the driver will have its own auto-alloced platdata, for use with the
device tree. The ofdata_to_platdata() method converts the device tree
settings to platdata.
With of-platdata we would not normally allocate the platdata since it is
provided by the U_BOOT_DEVICE() declaration. However this is inconvenient
since the of-platdata struct is closely tied to the device tree properties.
It is unlikely to exactly match the platdata needed by the driver.
In fact a useful approach is to declare platdata in the driver like this:
struct r3288_mmc_platdata {
struct dtd_rockchip_rk3288_dw_mshc of_platdata;
/* the 'normal' fields go here */
};
In this case we have dt_platadata available, but the normal fields are not
present, since ofdata_to_platdata() is never called. In fact driver model
doesn't allocate any space for the 'normal' fields, since it sees that there
is already platform data attached to the device.
To make this easier, adjust driver model to allocate the full size of the
struct (i.e. platdata_auto_alloc_size from the driver) and copy in the
of-platdata. This means that when the driver's bind() method is called,
the of-platdata will be present, followed by zero bytes for the empty
'normal field' portion.
A new DM_FLAG_OF_PLATDATA flag is available that indicates that the platdata
came from of-platdata. When the allocation/copy happens, the
DM_FLAG_ALLOC_PDATA flag will be set as well. The dtoc tool is updated to
output the platdata_size field, since U-Boot has no other way of knowing
the size of the of-platdata struct.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When of-platdata is used in SPL we don't use the device tree. So there is no
point in attaching it. Adjust the Makefile to skip attaching the device tree
when of-platdata is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When CONFIG_OF_PLATDATA is enabled, we cannot use the u-boot,dm-pre-reloc
device tree property since the device tree is not available. However,
dt-platdata.c only includes devices which would have been present in the
device tree, and we can assume that all such devices are needed for SPL.
If they were not needed, they would have been omitted to save space.
So in this case, bind all devices regardless of the u-boot,dm-pre-reloc
setting. This avoids needing to add a DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC to every driver,
thus affecting U-Boot proper also.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present assert() is not supported with tiny-printf, so when DEBUG is
enabled a build error is generated for each assert().
Add an __assert_fail() function to correct this. It prints a message and
then hangs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When swig is not available, we can still build correctly. So make this
optional. Add a comment about how to enable this build.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a Python version of the libfdt library which contains enough features to
support the dtoc tool. This is only a very bare-bones implementation. It
requires the 'swig' to build.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Update the Makefile to call dtoc to create the C header and source files,
then build these into the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This tool can produce C struct definitions and C platform data tables.
This is used to support the of-platdata feature.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This Python library provides a way to access the contents of the device
tree. It uses fdtget, so is inefficient for larger device tree files.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We cannot access the device tree in this case, so avoid compiling in the
various device-tree helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When this feature is enabled, we cannot access the device tree to find out
which serial device to use. Just use the first serial driver we find.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This header can be included from anywhere, but will only pull in the
of-platdata struct definitions when this feature is enabled (and only in
SPL).
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a driver which uses of-platdata to obtain its platform data. This can
be used to test the feature in sandbox. It displays the contents of its
platform data.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Provide a new function which can cope with obtaining information from
of-platdata instead of the device tree.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When CONFIG_SPL_OF_PLATDATA is enabled we should not access the device
tree. Remove all references to this in the core driver-model code.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Start up the test devices. These print out of-platdata contents, providing a
check that the of-platdata feature is working correctly.
The device-tree changes are made to sandbox.dts rather than test.dts. since
the former controls the of-platdata generation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to build SPL for sandbox. It provides additional
build coverage and allows SPL features to be tested in sandbox. However
it does not need worthwhile to always create an SPL build. It nearly
doubles the build time and the feature is (so far) seldom used.
So for now, create a separate build target for sandbox SPL. This allows
experimentation with this new feature without impacting existing workflows.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Siarhei Siamashka
Simon Glass