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authorChristian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>2023-03-20 11:45:57 +0000
committerNeil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>2023-04-17 11:06:08 +0200
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doc: boards: amlogic: update documentation for P201
Improve documentation. Notably we can now support U-Boot install to the internal eMMC storage in addition to SD cards. Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320114609.930145-22-christianshewitt@gmail.com [narmstrong: fixed doc build] Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/doc/board/amlogic/p201.rst b/doc/board/amlogic/p201.rst
index 2cd2365..28aae98d 100644
--- a/doc/board/amlogic/p201.rst
+++ b/doc/board/amlogic/p201.rst
@@ -1,25 +1,24 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
-U-Boot for Amlogic P201
-=======================
+U-Boot for Amlogic P201 (S905)
+==============================
-P201 is a reference board manufactured by Amlogic with the following
-specifications:
+P201 is a reference board manufactured by Amlogic with the following specifications:
- Amlogic S905 ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core SoC @ 1.5GHz
- ARM Mali 450 GPU
- 2GB DDR3 SDRAM
- 10/100 Ethernet
- HDMI 2.0 4K/60Hz display
- - 2 x USB 2.0 Host
+ - 2x USB 2.0 Host
- eMMC, microSD
- Infrared receiver
- SDIO WiFi Module
- - CVBS+Stereo Audio Jack
+ - CVBS + Stereo Audio Jack
Schematics are available from Amlogic on demand.
-U-Boot compilation
+U-Boot Compilation
------------------
.. code-block:: bash
@@ -28,14 +27,21 @@ U-Boot compilation
$ make p201_defconfig
$ make
-Image creation
---------------
+U-Boot Signing with Pre-Built FIP repo
+--------------------------------------
-For simplified usage, pleaser refer to :doc:`pre-generated-fip` with codename `p201`
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip --depth=1
+ $ cd amlogic-boot-fip
+ $ mkdir my-output-dir
+ $ ./build-fip.sh p201 /path/to/u-boot/u-boot.bin my-output-dir
-Amlogic doesn't provide sources for the firmware and for tools needed
-to create the bootloader image, so it is necessary to obtain them from
-the git tree published by the board vendor:
+U-Boot Manual Signing
+---------------------
+
+Amlogic does not provide sources for the firmware and tools needed to create a bootloader
+image but sources have been shared by Linux development contractor, Baylibre:
.. code-block:: bash
@@ -63,37 +69,51 @@ Go back to mainline U-boot source tree then :
$ cp $FIPDIR/gxb/bl301.bin fip/
$ cp $FIPDIR/gxb/bl31.img fip/
$ cp u-boot.bin fip/bl33.bin
+ $ wget https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip/raw/master/nanopi-k2/bl1.bin.hardkernel fip/bl1.bin.hardkernel
+ $ chmod +x fip/bl1.bin.hardkernel
+ $ wget https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip/raw/master/nanopi-k2/aml_chksum fip/aml_chksum
+ $ chmod +x fip/aml_chksum
$ $FIPDIR/blx_fix.sh \
- fip/bl30.bin \
- fip/zero_tmp \
- fip/bl30_zero.bin \
- fip/bl301.bin \
- fip/bl301_zero.bin \
- fip/bl30_new.bin \
- bl30
+ fip/bl30.bin \
+ fip/zero_tmp \
+ fip/bl30_zero.bin \
+ fip/bl301.bin \
+ fip/bl301_zero.bin \
+ fip/bl30_new.bin \
+ bl30
$ python $FIPDIR/acs_tool.pyc fip/bl2.bin fip/bl2_acs.bin fip/acs.bin 0
$ $FIPDIR/blx_fix.sh \
- fip/bl2_acs.bin \
- fip/zero_tmp \
- fip/bl2_zero.bin \
- fip/bl21.bin \
- fip/bl21_zero.bin \
- fip/bl2_new.bin \
- bl2
-
- $ $FIPDIR/fip_create --bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin --bl31 fip/bl31.img --bl33 fip/bl33.bin fip/fip.bin
+ fip/bl2_acs.bin \
+ fip/zero_tmp \
+ fip/bl2_zero.bin \
+ fip/bl21.bin \
+ fip/bl21_zero.bin \
+ fip/bl2_new.bin \
+ bl2
+
+ $ $FIPDIR/fip_create --bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin \
+ --bl31 fip/bl31.img \
+ --bl33 fip/bl33.bin \
+ fip/fip.bin
$ cat fip/bl2_new.bin fip/fip.bin >fip/boot_new.bin
- $ $FIPDIR/gxb/aml_encrypt_gxb --bootsig --input fip/boot_new.bin --output fip/u-boot.bin
+ $ $FIPDIR/gxb/aml_encrypt_gxb --bootsig \
+ --input fip/boot_new.bin \
+ --output fip/u-boot.bin
-and then write the image to SD with:
+Then write U-Boot to SD or eMMC with:
.. code-block:: bash
- $ DEV=/dev/your_sd_device
- $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 skip=1 seek=1
- $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=444
+ $ DEV=/dev/boot_device
+ $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin of=fip/u-boot.bin.gxbb bs=512 conv=fsync
+ $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin of=fip/u-boot.bin.gxbb bs=512 seek=9 skip=8 count=87 conv=fsync,notrunc
+ $ dd if=/dev/zero of=fip/u-boot.bin.gxbb bs=512 seek=8 count=1 conv=fsync,notrunc
+ $ dd if=bl1.bin.hardkernel of=fip/u-boot.bin.gxbb bs=512 seek=2 skip=2 count=1 conv=fsync,notrunc
+ $ ./aml_chksum fip/u-boot.bin.gxbb
+ $ dd if=fip/u-boot.gxbb of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 skip=1 seek=1
+ $ dd if=fip/u-boot.gxbb of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=440