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Booting U-boot on a MXS processor
=================================
This document describes the MXS U-Boot port. This document mostly covers topics
related to making the module/board bootable.
Terminology
-----------
The term "MXS" refers to a family of Freescale SoCs that is composed by MX23
and MX28.
The dollar symbol ($) introduces a snipped of shell code. This shall be typed
into the unix command prompt in U-Boot source code root directory.
The (=>) introduces a snipped of code that should by typed into U-Boot command
prompt
Contents
--------
1) Prerequisites
2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
1) Prerequisites
----------------
To make a MXS based board bootable, some tools are necessary. The only
mandatory tool is the "mxsboot" tool found in U-Boot source tree. The
tool is built automatically when compiling U-Boot for i.MX23 or i.MX28.
The production of BootStream image is handled via "mkimage", which is
also part of the U-Boot source tree. The "mkimage" requires OpenSSL
development libraries to be installed. In case of Debian and derivates,
this is installed by running:
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
NOTE: The "elftosb" tool distributed by Freescale Semiconductor is no
longer necessary for general use of U-Boot on i.MX23 and i.MX28.
The mkimage supports generation of BootStream images encrypted
with a zero key, which is the vast majority of use-cases. In
case you do need to produce image encrypted with non-zero key
or other special features, please use the "elftosb" tool,
otherwise continue to section 2). The installation procedure of
the "elftosb" is outlined below:
Firstly, obtain the elftosb archive from the following location:
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-10.12.01.tar.gz
We use a $VER variable here to denote the current version. At the time of
writing of this document, that is "10.12.01". To obtain the file from command
line, use:
$ VER="10.12.01"
$ wget ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/tools/elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
Extract the file:
$ tar xzf elftosb-${VER}.tar.gz
Compile the file. We need to manually tell the linker to use also libm:
$ cd elftosb-${VER}/
$ make LIBS="-lstdc++ -lm" elftosb
Optionally, remove debugging symbols from elftosb:
$ strip bld/linux/elftosb
Finally, install the "elftosb" binary. The "install" target is missing, so just
copy the binary by hand:
$ sudo cp bld/linux/elftosb /usr/local/bin/
Make sure the "elftosb" binary can be found in your $PATH, in this case this
means "/usr/local/bin/" has to be in your $PATH.
2) Compiling U-Boot for a MXS based board
-------------------------------------------
Compiling the U-Boot for a MXS board is straightforward and done as compiling
U-Boot for any other ARM device. For cross-compiler setup, please refer to
ELDK5.0 documentation. First, clean up the source code:
$ make mrproper
Next, configure U-Boot for a MXS based board
$ make <mxs_based_board_name>_config
Examples:
1. For building U-boot for Denx M28EVK board:
$ make m28evk_config
2. For building U-boot for Freescale MX28EVK board:
$ make mx28evk_config
3. For building U-boot for Freescale MX23EVK board:
$ make mx23evk_config
4. For building U-boot for Olimex MX23 Olinuxino board:
$ make mx23_olinuxino_config
Lastly, compile U-Boot and prepare a "BootStream". The "BootStream" is a special
type of file, which MXS CPUs can boot. This is handled by the following
command:
$ make u-boot.sb
HINT: To speed-up the build process, you can add -j<N>, where N is number of
compiler instances that'll run in parallel.
The code produces "u-boot.sb" file. This file needs to be augmented with a
proper header to allow successful boot from SD or NAND. Adding the header is
discussed in the following chapters.
NOTE: The process that produces u-boot.sb uses the mkimage to generate the
BootStream. The BootStream is encrypted with zero key. In case you need
some special features of the BootStream and plan on using the "elftosb"
tool instead, the invocation to produce a compatible BootStream with the
one produced by mkimage is outlined below. For further details, refer to
the documentation bundled with the "elftosb" package.
$ elftosb -zf imx23 -c arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/u-boot-imx23.bd \
-o u-boot.sb
$ elftosb -zf imx28 -c arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/u-boot-imx28.bd \
-o u-boot.sb
3) Installation of U-Boot for a MXS based board to SD card
----------------------------------------------------------
To boot a MXS based board from SD, set the boot mode DIP switches according to
to MX28 manual, section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2) or MX23 manual, section 35.1.2
(Table 35-3).
The SD card used to boot U-Boot must contain a DOS partition table, which in
turn carries a partition of special type and which contains a special header.
The rest of partitions in the DOS partition table can be used by the user.
To prepare such partition, use your favourite partitioning tool. The partition
must have the following parameters:
* Start sector .......... sector 2048
* Partition size ........ at least 1024 kb
* Partition type ........ 0x53 (sometimes "OnTrack DM6 Aux3")
For example in Linux fdisk, the sequence for a clear card follows. Be sure to
run fdisk with the option "-u=sectors" to set units to sectors:
* o ..................... create a clear partition table
* n ..................... create new partition
* p ............. primary partition
* 1 ............. first partition
* 2048 .......... first sector is 2048
* +1M ........... make the partition 1Mb big
* t 1 ................... change first partition ID
* 53 ............ change the ID to 0x53 (OnTrack DM6 Aux3)
* <create other partitions>
* w ..................... write partition table to disk
The partition layout is ready, next the special partition must be filled with
proper contents. The contents is generated by running the following command
(see chapter 2)):
$ ./tools/mxsboot sd u-boot.sb u-boot.sd
The resulting file, "u-boot.sd", shall then be written to the partition. In this
case, we assume the first partition of the SD card is /dev/mmcblk0p1:
$ dd if=u-boot.sd of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
Last step is to insert the card into the MXS based board and boot.
NOTE: If the user needs to adjust the start sector, the "mxsboot" tool contains
a "-p" switch for that purpose. The "-p" switch takes the sector number as
an argument.
4) Installation of U-Boot into NAND flash on a MX28 based board
---------------------------------------------------------------
To boot a MX28 based board from NAND, set the boot mode DIP switches according
to MX28 manual section 12.2.1 (Table 12-2), PORT=GPMI, NAND 1.8 V.
There are two possibilities when preparing an image writable to NAND flash.
I) The NAND wasn't written at all yet or the BCB is broken
----------------------------------------------------------
In this case, both BCB (FCB and DBBT) and firmware needs to be
written to NAND. To generate NAND image containing all these,
there is a tool called "mxsboot" in the "tools/" directory. The tool
is invoked on "u-boot.sb" file from chapter 2):
$ ./tools/mxsboot nand u-boot.sb u-boot.nand
NOTE: The above invokation works for NAND flash with geometry of
2048b per page, 64b OOB data, 128kb erase size. If your chip
has a different geometry, please use:
-w <size> change page size (default 2048 b)
-o <size> change oob size (default 64 b)
-e <size> change erase size (default 131072 b)
The geometry information can be obtained from running U-Boot
on the MX28 board by issuing the "nand info" command.
The resulting file, "u-boot.nand" can be written directly to NAND
from the U-Boot prompt. To simplify the process, the U-Boot default
environment contains script "update_nand_full" to update the system.
This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
"u-boot.nand" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
adjusting the "update_nand_full_filename" varible.
To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
=> run update_nand_full
In case you would only need to update the bootloader in future,
see II) below.
II) The NAND was already written with a good BCB
------------------------------------------------
This part applies after the part I) above was done at least once.
If part I) above was done correctly already, there is no need to
write the FCB and DBBT parts of NAND again. It's possible to upgrade
only the bootloader image.
To simplify the process of firmware update, the U-Boot default
environment contains script "update_nand_firmware" to update only
the firmware, without rewriting FCB and DBBT.
This script expects a working TFTP server containing the file
"u-boot.sb" in it's root directory. This can be changed by
adjusting the "update_nand_firmware_filename" varible.
To update the system, run the following in U-Boot prompt:
=> run update_nand_firmware
III) Special settings for the update scripts
--------------------------------------------
There is a slight possibility of the user wanting to adjust the
STRIDE and COUNT options of the NAND boot. For description of these,
see MX28 manual section 12.12.1.2 and 12.12.1.3.
The update scripts take this possibility into account. In case the
user changes STRIDE by blowing fuses, the user also has to change
"update_nand_stride" variable. In case the user changes COUNT by
blowing fuses, the user also has to change "update_nand_count"
variable for the update scripts to work correctly.
In case the user needs to boot a firmware image bigger than 1Mb, the
user has to adjust the "update_nand_firmware_maxsz" variable for the
update scripts to work properly.
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