Hi Pali, On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:04 PM Tony Dinh <mibo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 9:44 AM Pali Rohár <p...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2023 23:41:05 Chris Packham wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2023, 8:52 PM Pali Rohár, <p...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wednesday 04 January 2023 08:50:28 Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 03 January 2023 17:55:41 Tony Dinh wrote: > > > > > > Hi Pali, > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm building a new u-boot for the Thecus N2350 board (Armada 385 > > > > > > dual-core 1Ghz 1GB DDR4). The trouble with this board is DDR4, which > > > > > > is not currently supported in u-boot (also cc this to Chris for > > > > > > commenting about Marvell DDR4 training driver). > > > > > > > > > > Yes, ddr4 training code is not in u-boot yet. > > > > > > > > > > A38x u-boot ddr driver is in this directory: > > > > > > > > > https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/tree/master/drivers/ddr/marvell/a38x > > > > > > > > > > And it is copied from the original marvell driver by stripping > > > > > non-a38x > > > > > code and removal of the ddr4 code from the master branch: > > > > > https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/mv-ddr-marvell > > > > > > > > > > So you can try to copy code again without stripping ddr4 parts > > > > > (run git log drivers/ddr/marvell/a38x in u-boot) > > > > > > > > > > > > https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/107c3391b95bcc2ba09a876da4fa0c31b6c1e460 > > > > > > > > > And adjust u-boot board code for ddr4. > > > > > > > > > > I guess it could work but it would be needed to play with it. > > > > > > > > > > Last time I looked the MarvellEmbeddedProcessors stuff was a long way > > > behind what Marvell are releasing to customers. That was for the newer > > > SoCs > > > so maybe the A385 stuff is current. > > > > About half year ago, MarvellEmbeddedProcessors mv-ddr-marvell and > > A3700-utils-marvell were up-to-date and same as the version distributed > > to the Marvell customers. I was cooperating with Marvell to release all > > patches from Marvell Extranet portal to github as opensource and also to > > incorporate github patches from community to their Extranet version. > > Also I was synchronizing u-boot drivers/ddr/marvell/a38x directory with > > MarvellEmbeddedProcessors version. I do not think that Marvell released > > something super new in these repositories in last half of year, so I > > think that the code on MarvellEmbeddedProcessors (for those two > > repositories) is still up-to-date. > > Thanks all for commenting. As Pali has suggested, I will try copying > the latest Marvell Github DDR drivers.
I've tried to bring in the latest Marvell DDR drivers, but failed miserably after many hours playing :) I used your DDR3 commit info as a guide as how to strip out other parts, and only kept DDR3 and DDR4 for a38x: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/107c3391b95bcc2ba09a876da4fa0c31b6c1e460 The current code has DDR4 interspersed in DDR3 with if-defs CONFIG_DDR4. And there are some minor dependencies on ATF types, quite difficult for me to get it to build cleanly. I guess I threw in the towel for now :) If you ever find some free time, please give it a shot. Thanks, Tony > > All the best, > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > So I'm building with binary.0 in the ./board/thecus/n2350/. This > > > > > > binary.0 is a copy of the Marvell bin_hdr for SPI in the GPL source > > > > > > for this board (provided by Thecus). My > > > > > > ./board/thecus/n2350/kwbimage.cfg.in file looks like this > > > > > > > > > > > > # Armada 38x uses version 1 image format > > > > > > VERSION 1 > > > > > > # Boot Media configurations > > > > > > BOOT_FROM spi > > > > > > # Binary Header (bin_hdr) with DDR4 training code > > > > > > BINARY board/thecus/n2350/binary.0 0000005b 00000068 > > > > > > > > > > > > When I kwboot the u-boot.kwb image (using kwboot binary built with > > > > > > 2023.01-rc4), the header was transferred successfully, but then the > > > > > > BootROM jumped to SPI u-boot, instead of loading the u-boot payload > > > > > > from UART. Please see the log below. > > > > > > <BEGIN LOG> > > > > > > # ./kwboot -t -p -B 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 -b uboot.kwb > > > > > > > > > > > > kwboot version 2023.01-tld-1-00048-g19e15f9081-dirty > > > > > > Patching image boot signature to UART > > > > > > Aligning image header to Xmodem block size > > > > > > Sending boot message. Please reboot the target.../ > > > > > > Sending boot image header (97792 bytes)... > > > > > > 0 % > > > > [......................................................................] > > > > > > 9 % > > > > [......................................................................] > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > 82 % > > > > [......................................................................] > > > > > > 91 % > > > > [................................................................ ] > > > > > > Done > > > > > > > > > > > > BootROM - 1.73 > > > > > > Booting from SPI flash > > > > > > > > > > This indicates reset of the board. BootROM started execution of the > > > > > image from the primary location. > > > > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 - 20:56:19) Marvell version: > > > > 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4 > > > > > > <END LOG> > > > > > > > > > > > > It seems kwboot patched the image, but the BOOT_FROM indicator was > > > > > > still recognized as from SPI. So the BootROM loaded the stock u-boot > > > > > > image from SPI and executed it. Since I am booting with bin_hdr, I'm > > > > > > not sure if there is something inside this blob that has forced this > > > > > > indicator to SPI. > > > > > > > > > > No, blob cannot force BootROM to switch boot location. This really > > > > > indicates crash of the blob or crash of the payload which results in > > > > > the > > > > > board reset. > > > > > > > > > > > I'm attaching the u-boot.kwb image to this email, in case you are > > > > > > interested in taking a look at the structure. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tony > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
