u-boot/doc/README.ae250

Andes Technology SoC AE250
===========================

AE250 is the mainline SoC produced by Andes Technology using NX25 CPU core
base on RISC-V architecture.

AE250 has integrated both AHB and APB bus and many periphals for application
and product development.

NX25-AE250
=========

NX25-AE250 is the SoC with AE250 hardcore CPU.

Configurations
==============

CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT:
	If you want to boot this system from SPI ROM and bypass e-bios (the
	other boot loader on ROM). You should undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
	in "include/configs/nx25-ae250.h".

Build and boot steps
====================

build:
1. Prepare the toolchains and make sure the $PATH to toolchains is correct.
2. Use `make nx25-ae250_defconfig` in u-boot root to build the image.

Verification
====================

Target
====================
1. startup
2. relocation
3. timer driver
4. uart driver
5. mac driver
6. mmc driver
7. spi driver

Steps
====================
1. Define CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is loaded via gdb from ram.
2. Undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is booted from spi rom.
3. Ping a server by mac driver
4. Scan sd card and copy u-boot image which is booted from flash to ram by sd driver.
5. Burn this u-boot image to spi rom by spi driver
6. Re-boot u-boot from spi flash with power off and power on.

Messages of U-Boot boot on AE250 board
======================================
U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-g824f89a (Dec 21 2017 - 16:51:26 +0800)

DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   mmc@f0e00000: 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
In:    serial@f0300000
Out:   serial@f0300000
Err:   serial@f0300000
Net:
Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - be:dd:d7:e4:e8:10
eth0: mac@e0100000

RISC-V # version
U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-gb265b91-dirty (Dec 22 2017 - 13:54:21 +0800)

riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 7.2.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.29

RISC-V # setenv ipaddr 10.0.4.200 ;
RISC-V # setenv serverip 10.0.4.97 ;
RISC-V # ping 10.0.4.97 ;
Using mac@e0100000 device
host 10.0.4.97 is alive

RISC-V # mmc rescan
RISC-V # fatls mmc 0:1
   318907   u-boot-ae250-64.bin
     1252   hello_world_ae250_32.bin
   328787   u-boot-ae250-32.bin

3 file(s), 0 dir(s)

RISC-V # sf probe 0:0 50000000 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB

RISC-V # sf test 0x100000 0x1000
SPI flash test:
0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps
1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps
2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps
3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps
Test passed
0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps
1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps
2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps
3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps

RISC-V # fatload mmc 0:1 0x600000 u-boot-ae250-32.bin
reading u-boot-ae250-32.bin
328787 bytes read in 324 ms (990.2 KiB/s)

RISC-V # sf erase 0x0 0x51000
SF: 331776 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK

RISC-V # sf write 0x600000 0x0 0x50453
device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x50453
SF: 328787 bytes @ 0x0 Written: OK

RISC-V # crc32 0x600000 0x50453
crc32 for 00600000 ... 00650452 ==> 692dc44a

RISC-V # crc32 0x80000000 0x50453
crc32 for 80000000 ... 80050452 ==> 692dc44a
RISC-V #

*** power-off and power-on, this U-Boot is booted from spi flash 	***

U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00032-gf67dd47-dirty (Dec 21 2017 - 13:56:03 +0800)

DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   mmc@f0e00000: 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
In:    serial@f0300000
Out:   serial@f0300000
Err:   serial@f0300000
Net:
Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - ee:4c:58:29:32:f5
eth0: mac@e0100000
RISC-V #


Boot bbl and riscv-linux via U-Boot on QEMU
===========================================
1. Build riscv-linux
2. Build bbl and riscv-linux with --with-payload
3. Prepare ae250.dtb
4. Creating OS-kernel images
	./mkimage -A riscv -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x0000 -e 0x0000 -d bbl.bin bootmImage-bbl.bin
	Image Name:
	Created:      Tue Mar 13 10:06:42 2018
	Image Type:   RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
	Data Size:    17901204 Bytes = 17481.64 KiB = 17.07 MiB
	Load Address: 00000000
	Entry Point:  00000000

4. Copy bootmImage-bbl.bin and ae250.dtb to qemu sd card image
5. Message of booting riscv-linux from bbl via u-boot on qemu

U-Boot 2018.03-rc4-00031-g2631273 (Mar 13 2018 - 15:02:55 +0800)

DRAM:  1 GiB
main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations
MMC:   mmc@f0e00000: 0
Loading Environment from SPI Flash... *** Warning - spi_flash_probe_bus_cs() failed, using default environment

Failed (-22)
In:    serial@f0300000
Out:   serial@f0300000
Err:   serial@f0300000
Net:
Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - 02:00:00:00:00:00
eth0: mac@e0100000
RISC-V # mmc rescan
RISC-V # mmc part

Partition Map for MMC device 0  --   Partition Type: DOS

Part    Start Sector    Num Sectors     UUID            Type
RISC-V # fatls mmc 0:0
 17901268   bootmImage-bbl.bin
     1954   ae2xx.dtb

2 file(s), 0 dir(s)

RISC-V # fatload mmc 0:0 0x00600000 bootmImage-bbl.bin
17901268 bytes read in 4642 ms (3.7 MiB/s)
RISC-V # fatload mmc 0:0 0x2000000 ae250.dtb
1954 bytes read in 1 ms (1.9 MiB/s)
RISC-V # setenv bootm_size 0x2000000
RISC-V # setenv fdt_high 0x1f00000
RISC-V # bootm 0x00600000 - 0x2000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00600000 ...
   Image Name:
   Image Type:   RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    17901204 Bytes = 17.1 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 02000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x2000000
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
   Loading Device Tree to 0000000001efc000, end 0000000001eff7a1 ... OK
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0x0 - 0x200000
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.0-00046-gf3e439f-dirty (rick@atcsqa06) (gcc version 7.1.1 20170509 (GCC)) #1 Tue Jan 9 16:34:25 CST 2018
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] Initial ramdisk at: 0xffffffe000016a98 (12267008 bytes)
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x000000007fffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x000000007fffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x000000007fffffff]
[    0.000000] elf_hwcap is 0x112d
[    0.000000] random: fast init done
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 516615
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,38400n8 earlyprintk=uart8250-32bit,0xf0300000 debug loglevel=7
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[    0.000000] Sorting __ex_table...
[    0.000000] Memory: 2047832K/2095104K available (1856K kernel code, 204K rwdata, 532K rodata, 12076K init, 756K bss, 47272K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 0, nr_irqs: 0, preallocated irqs: 0
[    0.000000] riscv,cpu_intc,0: 64 local interrupts mapped
[    0.000000] riscv,plic0,e4000000: mapped 31 interrupts to 1/2 handlers
[    0.000000] clocksource: riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x24e6a1710, max_idle_ns: 440795202120 ns
[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 20.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=40000)
[    0.000000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.004000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.004000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.056000] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.060000] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[    0.064000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 6144 bytes)
[    0.068000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.080000] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.084000] clocksource: Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource
[    0.088000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.092000] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.096000] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[    0.096000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[    0.100000] UDP hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.100000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.104000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.616000] Unpacking initramfs...
[    1.220000] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=19 bucket_order=0
[    1.244000] io scheduler noop registered
[    1.244000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    1.244000] io scheduler mq-deadline registered
[    1.248000] io scheduler kyber registered
[    1.360000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    1.368000] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    1.372000] f0300000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf0300020 (irq = 10, base_baud = 1228800) is a 16550A
[    1.392000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    1.392000] ftmac100: Loading version 0.2 ...
[    1.396000] ftmac100 e0100000.mac eth0: irq 8, mapped at ffffffd002005000
[    1.400000] ftmac100 e0100000.mac eth0: generated random MAC address 6e:ac:c3:92:36:c0
[    1.404000] IR NEC protocol handler initialized
[    1.404000] IR RC5(x/sz) protocol handler initialized
[    1.404000] IR RC6 protocol handler initialized
[    1.404000] IR JVC protocol handler initialized
[    1.408000] IR Sony protocol handler initialized
[    1.408000] IR SANYO protocol handler initialized
[    1.408000] IR Sharp protocol handler initialized
[    1.408000] IR MCE Keyboard/mouse protocol handler initialized
[    1.412000] IR XMP protocol handler initialized
[    1.456000] ftsdc010 f0e00000.mmc: mmc0 - using hw SDIO IRQ
[    1.464000] bootconsole [early0] uses init memory and must be disabled even before the real one is ready
[    1.464000] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    1.508000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 12076K
[    1.512000] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[    1.520000] mmc0: new SD card at address 4567
[    1.524000] mmcblk0: mmc0:4567 QEMU! 20.0 MiB
[    1.844000]  mmcblk0:
Wed Dec  1 10:00:00 CST 2010
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TODO
==================================================
Boot bbl and riscv-linux via U-Boot on AE250 board