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The da850evm with its UI expander board can boot XIP boot from NOR flash. This adds the instructions to the readme. file. Signed-off-by: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com>
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Summary
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The README is for the boot procedure used for various DA850 (or compatible
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parts such as the AM1808) based boards.
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In the context of U-Boot, the board is booted in three stages. The initial
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bootloader which executes upon reset is the ROM Boot Loader (RBL) and sits
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in the internal ROM. The RBL initializes the internal memory and then
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depending on the exact board and pin configurations will initialize another
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controller (such as SPI or NAND) to continue the boot process by loading
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the secondary program loader (SPL). The SPL will initialize the system
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further (some clocks, SDRAM) and then load the full u-boot from a
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predefined location in persistent storage to DDR and jumps to the u-boot
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entry point.
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AIS is an image format defined by TI for the images that are to be loaded
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to memory by the RBL. The image is divided into a series of sections and
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the image's entry point is specified. Each section comes with meta data
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like the target address the section is to be copied to and the size of the
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section, which is used by the RBL to load the image. At the end of the
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image the RBL jumps to the image entry point. The AIS format allows for
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other things such as programming the clocks and SDRAM if the header is
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programmed for it. We do not take advantage of this and instead use SPL as
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it allows for additional flexibility (run-time detect of board revision,
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loading the next image from a different media, etc).
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Compilation
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===========
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The exact build target you need will depend on the board you have. For
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Logic PD boards, or other boards which store the ethernet MAC address at
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the end of SPI flash, run 'make da850evm'. For boards which store the
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ethernet MAC address in the i2c EEPROM located at 0x50, run
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'make da850_am18xxevm'. Once this build completes you will have a
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u-boot.ais file that needs to be written to the correct persistent
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storage.
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Flashing the images to SPI
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==========================
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The AIS image can be written to SPI flash using the following commands.
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Assuming that the network is configured and enabled and the u-boot.ais file
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is tftp'able.
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U-Boot > sf probe 0
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U-Boot > sf erase 0 +320000
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U-Boot > tftp u-boot.ais
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U-Boot > sf write c0700000 0 $filesize
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Flashing the images to NAND
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===========================
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The AIS image can be written to NAND using the u-boot "nand" commands.
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Example:
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OMAPL138_LCDK requires the AIS image to be written to the second block of
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the NAND flash.
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From the "nand info" command we see that the second block would start at
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offset 0x20000:
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U-Boot > nand info
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sector size 128 KiB (0x20000)
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Page size 2048 b
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From the tftp command we see that we need to copy 0x74908 bytes from
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memory address 0xc0700000 (0x75000 if we align a page of 2048):
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U-Boot > tftp u-boot.ais
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Load address: 0xc0700000
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Bytes transferred = 477448 (74908 hex)
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The commands to write the image from memory to NAND would be:
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U-Boot > nand erase 0x20000 0x75000
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U-Boot > nand write 0xc0700000 0x20000 0x75000
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Alternatively, MTD partitions may be defined. Using "mtdparts" to
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conveniently have a bootloader partition starting at the second block
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(offset 0x20000):
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setenv mtdids nand0=davinci_nand.0
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setenv mtdparts mtdparts=davinci_nand.0:128k(bootenv),2m(bootloader)
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In this case the commands would be simplified to:
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U-Boot > tftp u-boot.ais
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U-Boot > nand erase.part bootloader
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U-Boot > nand write 0xc0700000 bootloader
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Flashing the images to MMC
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If the boot pins are set to boot from mmc, the RBL will try to load the
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next boot stage form the first couple of sectors of an external mmc card.
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As sector 0 is usually used for storing the partition information, the
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AIS image should be written at least after the first sector, but before the
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first partition begins. (e.g: make sure to leave at least 500KB of unallocated
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space at the start of the mmc when creating the partitions)
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CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR is used by SPL, and should
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point to the sector were the u-boot image is located. (eg. After SPL)
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There are 2 ways to copy the AIS image to the mmc card:
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1 - Using the TI tool "uflash"
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$ uflash -d /dev/mmcblk0 -b ./u-boot.ais -p OMAPL138 -vv
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2 - using the "dd" command
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$ dd if=u-boot.ais of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=117 bs=512 conv=fsync
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uflash writes the AIS image at offset 117. For compatibility with uflash,
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CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR is set to take into account this
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offset, and the dd command is adjusted accordingly.
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Flashing the images to NOR
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NOR Flash is XIP (execute-in-place), so no AIS (or SPL) is needed. The
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u-boot.bin is directy flashed, but CONFIT_DA850_LOWLEVEL must be set
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to initialize hardware that's normally done by SPL.
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For this case, CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x60000000 which is the address to
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which the bootloader jumps when powered on.
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Example:
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For the da850evm, there is a defconfig setup to use the NOR flash on
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the UI expander board called da850evm_direct_nor_defconfig.
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Flash to NOR directly using
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sudo mono ./sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -flash_noubl
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-flashType NOR u-boot.bin
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SW7:5 through SW7:7 should be switched on and all others off.
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Recovery
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In the case of a "bricked" board, you need to use the TI tools found
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here[1] to write the u-boot.ais file. An example of recovering to the SPI
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flash of an AM1808 would be:
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$ mono sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -targetType AM1808 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 \
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-flash_noubl /path/to/u-boot.ais
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For other target types and flash locations:
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$ mono sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -h
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Links
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[1]
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http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Serial_Boot_and_Flash_Loading_Utility_for_OMAP-L138
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