Provide information about - overview of file system firmware loader driver model - describe storage device and partition in device tree source - describe fie system firmware loader API Signed-off-by: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>lime2-spi
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# Copyright (C) 2018 Intel Corporation <www.intel.com> |
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 |
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Introduction |
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============ |
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This is file system firmware loader for U-Boot framework, which has very close |
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to some Linux Firmware API. For the details of Linux Firmware API, you can refer |
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to https://01.org/linuxgraphics/gfx-docs/drm/driver-api/firmware/index.html. |
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File system firmware loader can be used to load whatever(firmware, image, |
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and binary) from the storage device in file system format into target location |
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such as memory, then consumer driver such as FPGA driver can program FPGA image |
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from the target location into FPGA. |
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To enable firmware loader, CONFIG_FS_LOADER need to be set at |
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<board_name>_defconfig such as "CONFIG_FS_LOADER=y". |
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Firmware Loader API core features |
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Firmware storage device described in device tree source |
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For passing data like storage device phandle and partition where the |
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firmware loading from to the firmware loader driver, those data could be |
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defined in fs-loader node as shown in below: |
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Example for block device: |
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fs_loader0: fs-loader@0 { |
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u-boot,dm-pre-reloc; |
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compatible = "u-boot,fs-loader"; |
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phandlepart = <&mmc 1>; |
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}; |
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<&mmc 1> means block storage device pointer and its partition. |
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Above example is a description for block storage, but for UBI storage |
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device, it can be described in FDT as shown in below: |
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Example for ubi: |
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fs_loader1: fs-loader@1 { |
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u-boot,dm-pre-reloc; |
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compatible = "u-boot,fs-loader"; |
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mtdpart = "UBI", |
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ubivol = "ubi0"; |
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}; |
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Then, firmware_loader property would be set with the path of fs_loader |
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node under /chosen node such as: |
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/{ |
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chosen { |
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firmware_loader = &fs_loader0; |
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}; |
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}; |
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However, this driver is also designed to support U-boot environment |
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variables, so all these data from FDT can be overwritten |
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through the U-boot environment variable during run time. |
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For examples: |
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"storage_interface" - Storage interface, it can be "mmc", "usb", "sata" |
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or "ubi". |
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"fw_dev_part" - Block device number and its partition, it can be "0:1". |
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"fw_ubi_mtdpart" - UBI device mtd partition, it can be "UBI". |
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"fw_ubi_volume" - UBI volume, it can be "ubi0". |
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When above environment variables are set, environment values would be |
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used instead of data from FDT. |
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The benefit of this design allows user to change storage attribute data |
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at run time through U-boot console and saving the setting as default |
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environment values in the storage for the next power cycle, so no |
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compilation is required for both driver and FDT. |
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File system firmware Loader API |
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int request_firmware_into_buf(struct device_platdata *plat, |
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const char *name, |
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void *buf, size_t size, u32 offset, |
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struct firmware **firmwarep) |
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Load firmware into a previously allocated buffer |
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Parameters: |
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1. struct device_platdata *plat |
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Platform data such as storage and partition firmware loading from |
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2. const char *name |
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name of firmware file |
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3. void *buf |
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address of buffer to load firmware into |
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4. size_t size |
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size of buffer |
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5. u32 offset |
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offset of a file for start reading into buffer |
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6. struct firmware **firmwarep |
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pointer to firmware image |
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return: |
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size of total read |
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-ve when error |
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Description: |
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The firmware is loaded directly into the buffer pointed to by buf and |
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the @firmwarep data member is pointed at buf |
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Note: Memory would be allocated for firmware image, hence user should |
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free() *firmwarep and *firmwarep->priv structs after usage of |
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request_firmware_into_buf(), otherwise it will always leak memory |
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while subsequent calls of request_firmware_into_buf() with the same |
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*firmwarep argument. Those arguments can be free through calling API |
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below release_firmware(); |
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Example of creating firmware loader instance and calling |
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request_firmware_into_buf API: |
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if (uclass_get_device(UCLASS_FS_FIRMWARE_LOADER, 0, &dev)) { |
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request_firmware_into_buf(dev->plat, filename, buffer_location, |
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buffer_size, offset_ofreading, &fw); |
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} |
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void release_firmware(struct firmware *firmware) |
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Release the resource associated with a firmware image |
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Parameters: |
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1. struct firmware *firmware |
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Firmware resource to release |
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