board: Add new Samsung "stemmy" board based on ST-Ericsson U8500

The ST-Ericsson U8500 SoC has been used in mass-production for
some Android smartphones released around 2012.
In particular, Samsung has released more than 5 different
smartphones based on U8500, e.g.

  - Samsung Galaxy S III mini (GT-I8190) "golden"
  - Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070)  "janice"
  - Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710)   "skomer"

and a few others.

Mainline Linux has great support for the Ux500 SoC, so these
smartphones can also run Linux mainline quite well.

Unfortunately, the original Samsung bootloader used on these devices
has limitations that prevent booting Linux mainline directly.
It keeps the L2 cache enabled, which causes Linux to crash very early,
shortly after decompressing the kernel.

Using U-Boot allows to circumvent these limitations. We can let the
Samsung bootloader chain-load U-Boot and U-Boot locks the L2 cache
before booting into Linux. U-Boot has several other advantages
- it supports device-trees directly and we are no longer limited to
flashing Android boot images through Samsung's proprietary download
mode.

The Samsung "stemmy" board covers all Samsung devices based on U8500.
Add minimal support for "stemmy". For now only UART is supported but
this will be extended later.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
This commit is contained in:
Stephan Gerhold 2020-01-04 18:45:19 +01:00 committed by Tom Rini
parent 293f9ebb94
commit 43d28855d8
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@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_FSL_LSCH2) += fsl-ls1043a-qds-duart.dtb \
dtb-$(CONFIG_TARGET_DRAGONBOARD410C) += dragonboard410c.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_TARGET_DRAGONBOARD820C) += dragonboard820c.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_TARGET_STEMMY) += ste-ux500-samsung-stemmy.dtb
dtb-$(CONFIG_STM32F4) += stm32f429-disco.dtb \
stm32429i-eval.dtb \
stm32f469-disco.dtb

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/dts-v1/;
#include "ste-dbx5x0-u-boot.dtsi"
#include "ste-ab8500.dtsi"
/ {
compatible = "samsung,stemmy", "st-ericsson,u8500";
chosen {
stdout-path = &serial2;
};
soc {
/* Debugging console UART */
uart@80007000 {
status = "okay";
};
};
};

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@ -3,4 +3,25 @@ if ARCH_U8500
config SYS_SOC
default "u8500"
choice
prompt "U8500 board selection"
config TARGET_STEMMY
bool "Samsung (stemmy) board"
help
The Samsung "stemmy" board supports Samsung smartphones released with
the ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 SoC, e.g.
- Samsung Galaxy S III mini (GT-I8190) "golden"
- Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070) "janice"
- Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710) "skomer"
and likely others as well (untested).
See board/ste/stemmy/README for details.
endchoice
source "board/ste/stemmy/Kconfig"
endif

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if TARGET_STEMMY
config SYS_BOARD
default "stemmy"
config SYS_VENDOR
default "ste"
config SYS_CONFIG_NAME
default "stemmy"
endif

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STEMMY BOARD
M: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
S: Maintained
F: board/ste/stemmy/
F: include/configs/stemmy.h
F: configs/stemmy_defconfig

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
obj-y := stemmy.o

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ST-Ericsson U8500 Samsung "stemmy" board
========================================
The "stemmy" board supports Samsung smartphones released with
the ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 SoC, e.g.
- Samsung Galaxy S III mini (GT-I8190) "golden"
- Samsung Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070) "janice"
- Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 (GT-S7710) "skomer"
and likely others as well (untested).
At the moment, U-Boot is intended to be chain-loaded from
the original Samsung bootloader, not replacing it entirely.
Installation
------------
1. Setup cross compiler, e.g. export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi-
2. make stemmy_defconfig
3. make
For newer devices (golden and skomer), the U-Boot binary has to be packed into
an Android boot image. janice boots the raw U-Boot binary from the boot partition.
4. Obtain mkbootimg, e.g. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/refs/tags/android-7.1.2_r37/mkbootimg/mkbootimg
5. mkbootimg \
--kernel=u-boot.bin \
--base=0x00000000 \
--kernel_offset=0x00100000 \
--ramdisk_offset=0x02000000 \
--tags_offset=0x00000100 \
--output=u-boot.img
6. Enter Samsung download mode (press Power + Home + Volume Down)
7. Flash U-Boot image to Android boot partition using Heimdall:
https://gitlab.com/BenjaminDobell/Heimdall
heimdall flash --Kernel u-boot.(bin|img)
8. After reboot U-Boot prompt should appear via UART.
UART
----
UART is available through the micro USB port, similar to the Carkit standard.
With a ~619kOhm resistor between ID and GND, 1.8V RX/TX is available at D+/D-.
Make sure to connect the UART cable *before* turning on the phone.

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
* Copyright (C) 2019 Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
*/
#include <common.h>
DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
int dram_init(void)
{
gd->ram_size = get_ram_size(CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE, CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE);
return 0;
}
int board_init(void)
{
return 0;
}

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CONFIG_ARM=y
CONFIG_ARCH_U8500=y
CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x100000
CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS=1
CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET=y
CONFIG_HUSH_PARSER=y
CONFIG_CMD_CONFIG=y
CONFIG_CMD_LICENSE=y
CONFIG_CMD_DM=y
CONFIG_CMD_GPIO=y
CONFIG_CMD_MMC=y
CONFIG_CMD_PART=y
CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="ste-ux500-samsung-stemmy"
# CONFIG_NET is not set
# CONFIG_MMC_HW_PARTITIONING is not set
# CONFIG_EFI_LOADER is not set

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
/*
* Copyright (C) 2019 Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
*/
#ifndef __CONFIGS_STEMMY_H
#define __CONFIGS_STEMMY_H
#include <linux/sizes.h>
#define CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT /* Loaded by another bootloader */
#define CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN SZ_2M
/* Physical Memory Map */
#define PHYS_SDRAM_1 0x00000000 /* DDR-SDRAM Bank #1 */
#define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE PHYS_SDRAM_1
#define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE SZ_1G
#define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE 0x00100000
#define CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET (CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE + \
CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE - \
GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE)
#define CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET
/* FIXME: This should be loaded from device tree... */
#define CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310
#define CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE 0xa0412000
#define CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR 0x00100000
#endif