** Introduction
There are currently four ways to load an OS image with u-boot
1. SPL -> u-boot -> bootm
2. SPL blue falcon mode
3. "Basic" FIT image (CONFIG_LOAD_FIT)
4. "Full-featured" FIT image (CONFIG_LOAD_FIT_FULL)
These four code paths were developed independently, and share very
little code. (3) and (4), behave very differently, are littered with
special cases. They even have different DTS syntax and properties.
The cause of this divergence is that the FIT format specification
leaves a number of things open to interpretation. The purpose of this
change is to enable the reduction of code size, duplication, and
complexity by updating and streamlining the FIT format.
We are only marginally concerned with backwards compatibility, because
we don't have inter-compatibility. For example, CONFIG_LOAD_FIT is
able to load images that CONFIG_LOAD_FIT_FULL won't. This is a direct
result of the incompatible syntax between the two implementations.
Ideally, these changes would enable "simple" FIT to be a subset of the
"full" fit implementation, and share most code. These changes should
also eliminate the need for falcon mode (although we are not
advocating for the removal of falcon mode at this time).
** Description of changes
* The "configurations" node is now mandatory
Guessing how to load components based on their "os" and "type" invites
confusion and superfluous heuristics. Instead, require each FIT image
to be explicit on how components should be loaded.
* Eliminate "ramdisk", "setup", "standalone", and "fpga" properties
Having too many special purpose properties requires special-casing
FIT loading code. When a special property can be handled by another
property, it is redundant.
- A "ramdisk" is identical to a loadable. Thus ramdisk images should
be placed under "loadables".
- A "setup" node can be achieved by using a "kernel" or "firmware"
property instead.
- "standalone" is used for u-boot nodes. The correct property to use
in this case is "firmware".
- "fpga" is a loadable
* Prioritize control between "firmware" and "kernel"
"firmware" and "kernel" are special nodes in that control is passed
to the "entry-point" of the image. Both can be present, for example,
an OP-TEE firmware with a linux kernel. When both are present,
control is passed to the "firmware" image.
** Further generalizations (not included herein)
The "firmware" and "kernel" properties could be generalized as a
"next-boot-stage", or similar name. This "next" stage would be special
in that it is both executable, and is the stage that is passed
control. For example, "next-stage" could be an op-tee image, with
linux as a loadable, or a u-boot image.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
u_boot should be u-boot
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
The image is usually stored in block device like emmc, SD card, make the
offset of image data aligned to block(512 byte) can avoid data copy
during boot process.
eg. SPL boot from FIT image with external data:
- SPL read the first block of FIT image, and then parse the header;
- SPL read image data separately;
- The first image offset is the base_offset which is the header size;
- The second image offset is just after the first image;
- If the offset of imge does not aligned, SPL will do memcpy;
The header size is a ramdon number, which is very possible not aligned, so
add '-B size'to specify the align size in hex for better performance.
example usage:
./tools/mkimage -E -f u-boot.its -B 0x200 u-boot.itb
Signed-off-by: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com>
Reviewed-by: Punit Agrawal <punit1.agrawal@toshiba.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
This patch adds support for an optional optimization to compatible
string matching where the compatible string property from the root node
of the kernel FDT can be copied into the configuration node of the FIT
image. This is most useful when using compressed FDTs or when using FDT
overlays, where the traditional extraction of the compatible string from
the kernel FDT itself is not easily possible.
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Compressed images should have their compression property
set to "none" if U-Boot should leave them compressed.
This is especially the case for compressed ramdisks that
should be uncompressed by the kernel only.
Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <sgoldschmidt@de.pepperl-fuchs.com>
The DT spec demands a unit-address in a node name to match the "reg"
property in that node. Newer dtc versions will throw warnings if this is
not the case.
Fix all occurences in the FIT image documentation files where this was not
observed, to not give bad examples to the reader.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
For external data, FIT has a optional property "data-position" which
can set the external data to a fixed offset to FIT beginning.
Add the support for this property in SPL FIT.
Signed-off-by: Ye Li <ye.li@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Melin <tomas.melin@vaisala.com>
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com>
Cc: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
Cc: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il>
Cc: "tomas.melin@vaisala.com" <tomas.melin@vaisala.com>
Cc: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
Cc: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Cc: "Cooper Jr., Franklin" <fcooper@ti.com>
Cc: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Cc: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi>
Cc: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@ti.com>
Cc: Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
SPL supports U-Boot image in FIT format which has data outside of
FIT structure. This adds support for embedded data for normal FIT
images.
Signed-off-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In the source_file_format.txt file we talk about how to construct a
valid FIT image. While it already says to look at the source for the
full list, add kernel_noload to the explicit list of types. This is
arguably the most important type to use as most often we are including a
kernel that will run from wherever it is loaded into memory and execute.
This for example, allows you to create a single FIT image for Linux that
can be used on both OMAP and i.MX devices as the kernel will not need to
be moved in memory.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To help automate the loading of custom image types we add the ability
to define custom handlers for the loadable section types. When we find
a compatible type while loading a "loadable" image from a FIT image we
run its associated handlers to perform any additional steps needed for
loading this image.
Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When building a FIT with external data (-E), U-Boot proper may require
absolute positioning for executing the external firmware. To acheive this
use the (-p) switch, which will replace the amended 'data-offset' with
'data-position' indicating the absolute position of external data.
It is considered an error if the requested absolute position overlaps with the
initial data required for the compact FIT.
Signed-off-by: Teddy Reed <teddy.reed@gmail.com>
Add FIT_FPGA_PROP that user can identify an optional
entry for fpga.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Different sections in the document suggest flattened image tree blob
files have a file name extension of .itb. Fix the list of file extensions
to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg@ti.com>
One limitation of FIT is that all the data is 'inline' within it, using a
'data' property in each image node. This means that to find out what is in
the FIT it is necessary to scan the entire file. Once loaded it can be
scanned and then the images can be copied to the correct place in memory.
In SPL it can take a significant amount of time to copy images around in
memory. Also loading data that does not end up being used is wasteful. It
would be useful if the FIT were small, acting as a directory, with the
actual data stored elsewhere.
This allows SPL to load the entire FIT, without the images, then load the
images it wants later.
Add a -E option to mkimage to request that it output an 'external' FIT.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Correct spelling of "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text
(documentation, comments in source files etc.).
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Minkyu Kang <mk7.kang@samsung.com>
Added FIT_LOADABLE_PROP, so the user can identify an optional entry
named "loadables" in their .its configuration. "loadables" is a comma
separated list in the .its
Documentation can be found in doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt and
doc/uImage.Fit/multi-with-loadables.its
Signed-off-by: Karl Apsite <Karl.Apsite@dornerworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
According to fit_image_print(), the "os" property from "image" node is required
also when "type=ramdisk".
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Maciel Ferreira <guilherme.maciel.ferreira@gmail.com>
Add a new setup@ section to the FIT which can be used to provide a setup
binary for booting Linux on x86. This makes it possible to boot x86 from
a FIT.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
- Fix the path to source_file_format.txt
- Fix a minor typo
- Fix the type for FIT blob: it must be "flat_dt"
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Pantelis Antoniou stated:
AFAIK, it is still used but the products using PPC are long gone.
Nuke it plz (from orbit).
So remove it since it cleans up a usage of env_get_char outside of
the environment code.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
