The current CI test worked by sheer luck, the g_dev global pointer
in the fwu library was never initialized and the test equally well
failed on sandbox64. Trigger the main loop in sandbox tests too to
initialize that global state, and move the sandbox specific exit
from fwu_boottime_checks after g_dev is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas@mailbox.org>
Acked-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reset gd->cur_serial_dev pointer to avoid calling non-relocated code
from relocated code if a serial driver is not found and
CONFIG_REQUIRE_SERIAL_CONSOLE is disabled.
Here is detailed explanation of what this patch is trying to fix.
U-boot calls the serial_find_console_or_panic() function twice.
The first console setup occurs before U-boot relocation in
the serial_init(). This stage uses simple FDT parsing and
assigns gd->cur_serial_dev to a "serial" device that lives in
non-relocated code too.
The second console setup after U-boot relocation(from serial_initialize())
may use full live DT (if OF_LIVE enabled) probe sequence with buses,
clocks, resets, etc... And if the console setup fails at this step,
than we should be caught by panic_str("No serial driver found").
But... If we disable CONFIG_REQUIRE_SERIAL_CONSOLE, than we
return from serial_init() with gd->cur_serial_dev pointing
to the "old"(non-relocated) serial device.
And if this area, where "old" serial device is placed, is changed
(e.g. Linux kernel may be relocated at this address), than we will get
an unexpected crash on the next call of printf().
Signed-off-by: Maksim Kiselev <bigunclemax@gmail.com>
The make by default cuts off the stdout output from external tools,
so all error messages from the image-host are not shown in a make
output. Besides that, it is a common approach to use stderr stream
for error messages.
Use stderr for all error messages in image-host.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Suvorov <oleksandr.suvorov@foundries.io>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When the Broadcom STB PCIe controller is initialized, it must be set
into one of three CLKREQ# modes: "none"/"aspm"/"l1ss". The Linux driver,
through today, hard-codes "aspm" since the vast majority of boards using
this driver have a fixed PCIe bus with the CLKREQ# signal wired up.
The Raspberry Pi CM4, however, can be connected to a plethora of PCIe
devices, some of which do not connect the CLKREQ# line (they just leave
it floating). So "aspm" mode is no longer appropriate in all cases. In
Linux, there is a proposed patchset [1] to determine the proper mode.
This doesn't really make sense in U-Boot's case, so we just change the
assumption from "aspm" to "none" (which is always safe).
This patch DOES resolve a real-world crash that occurs when U-Boot is
running on a Raspberry Pi CM4 installed in slot 3 of a Turing Pi 2
cluster board.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230428223500.23337-1-jim2101024@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@gmail.com>
Since the initial U-Boot driver was ported here from Linux, the latter
has had a few changes for robustness/stability. This patch brings over
two of them:
- Do not attempt to access the configuration space of a PCIe device if
the link has gone down, as that will result in an asynchronous SError
interrupt which will crash U-Boot.
- Wait for the recommended 100ms after PERST# is deasserted.
I sent this patch while debugging a crash involving PCIe, but these
are unrelated improvements. I do not believe that this patch fixes any
real-world bug.
Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@gmail.com>
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Merge tag 'u-boot-at91-2023.10-a' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-at91 into next
First set of u-boot-at91 features for the 2023.10 cycle:
This feature set includes a new board sama5d29 Curiosity, and various
fixes and alignments for sam9x60 and sam9x60 curiosity board.
To quote the author:
This patchset aims to bring two capsule related tasks under the U-Boot
build flow.
The first task is related to generation of capsules. The capsules can be
generated as part of U-Boot build, and this is being achieved through
binman, by adding a capsule entry type. The capsules can be generated by
specifying the capsule parameters as properties under the capsule entry
node.
The other task is the embedding of the public key into the platform's
DTB. The public key is in the form of an EFI Signature List(ESL) file
and is used for capsule authentication. This is being achieved by adding
the signature node containing the capsule public key in the platform's
DTB.
Corresponding changes have also been made to the test setup of the EFI
capsule update feature. The ESL public key file was embedded into the
sandbox platform's test.dtb as part of the test setup, post U-Boot
build. This is now no longer needed as the embedding of the ESL happens
as part of the build.
Secondly, the capsules needed for testing the EFI capsule update feature
were being generated through the invocation of the mkeficapsule tool.
This setup has also been changed to introduce generation of these
capsules through binman.
The document has been updated to reflect the above changes.
Update the document to specify how the EFI Signature List(ESL) file
can be embedded into the platform's dtb as part of the U-Boot build.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
The public key EFI Signature List(ESL) needed for capsule
authentication is now embedded into the platform's DTB as part of the
build. Remove the superfluous logic from the test setup.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Add the path to the public key EFI Signature List(ESL) file for the
sandbox variants which enable capsule authentication. This ESL file
gets embedded into the platform's device-tree as part of the build.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
The EFI capsule authentication logic in u-boot expects the public key
in the form of an EFI Signature List(ESL) to be provided as part of
the platform's dtb. Currently, the embedding of the ESL file into the
dtb needs to be done manually.
Add a target for generating a dtsi file which contains the signature
node with the ESL file included as a property under the signature
node. Include the dtsi file in the dtb. This brings the embedding of
the ESL in the dtb into the U-Boot build flow.
The path to the ESL file is specified through the
CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_ESL_FILE symbol.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
At the time of building the DTB, some dtsi files can be selected for
inclusion. Have these dtsi files as dependencies for the DTB
target. This also ensures generation or updating the dtsi files if
need be.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
At the time of building a device-tree file, all the *u-boot.dtsi files
are looked for, in a particular order, and the first file found is
included. Then, the list of files specified in the
CONFIG_DEVICE_TREE_INCLUDES symbol are included.
Combine these files that are to be included into a variable, and then
include all these files in one go.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
When running the trace test on the sandbox platform, the current size
of 16MiB is no longer large enough for capturing the entire trace
history, and results in truncation. Use a size of 32MiB for the trace
buffer on the sandbox platform while running the trace test.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The EFI capsules can now be generated as part of U-Boot build, through
binman. Highlight these changes in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Support has been added for generating the EFI capsules through
binman. Make changes in the EFI capsule update testing feature to
generate capsules through binman.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Add support in binman for generating EFI capsules. The capsule
parameters can be specified through the capsule binman entry. Also add
test cases in binman for testing capsule generation.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a bintool for generating EFI capsules. This calls the mkeficapsule
tool which generates the capsules.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Enable the EFI capsule update code on all sandbox variants. This was
already enabled on the sandbox, sandbox64 and sandbox_flattree
variants. The rest of the variants also have the EFI capsule update
module enabled now. With this commit, the mkeficapsule tool also gets
enabled on all variants.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add the private keys and public key certificates which are to be used
for capsule authentication while testing the EFI capsule update
functionality. There are two pairs of private and public keys, good
and bad. The good key pair will be used for signing capsules, whilst
the bad key pair is to be used as malicious keys for testing
authentication failure cases. The capsule_pub_key_good.crt is also
converted to an EFI Signature List(ESL) file, SIGNER.esl, which is
embedded in the platform's device-tree for capsule authentication.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a newline at the end of the dts, without which the build fails
when including a dtsi file.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Add support to build a tool from source with a list of commands. This
is useful when a tool can be built with multiple commands instead of a
single command.
Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Copied as is from Linux Kernel release v6.4.
(dts file is still the same in Linux v6.5-rc7 but was moved to vendor
sub-directories with v6.5-rc1.)
Button works out of the box now if the following config options are
enabled: CONFIG_BUTTON, CONFIG_BUTTON_GPIO, CONFIG_CMD_BUTTON,
CONFIG_DM_GPIO.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
If CONFIG_LED and CONFIG_LED_GPIO are enabled, it is not necessary to
initialize the RGB LED on the board by manually setting hardcoded GPIOs
anymore. Everything is well defined in dts and can be used like on
boards of other vendors.
Keep the old behaviour as fallback, though.
With all this in place enabling CONFIG_CMD_LED gives us a working 'led'
command on the U-Boot shell.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Copied as is from Linux Kernel release v6.4.
(dts file is still the same in Linux v6.5-rc7 but was moved to vendor
sub-directories with v6.5-rc1.)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Since commit 61040097a9 ("reset: at91: Add reset driver for basic
assert/deassert operations") the compatible "microchip,sam9x60-rstc" for
the sam9x60 reset controller in sam9x60.dtsi is not handled by
CONFIG_SYSRESET_AT91 anymore, but by CONFIG_RESET_AT91 now. This
resulted in the following error message, when trying to reset from
U-Boot shell:
U-Boot> reset
resetting ...
System reset not supported on this platform
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
Fixed by enabling the new driver in the relevant defconfigs. Tested on
sam9x60-curiosity board. Defconfigs for sam9x60ek adapted in the same
way, but without testing. These should be all sam9x60 boards affected
in U-Boot here.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
The board has two SD card slots and we have two defconfigs for booting
from either the first (micro SD) named 'sam9x60_curiosity_mmc_defconfig'
or the second (full size SD) named 'sam9x60_curiosity_mmc1_defconfig'.
For comparable Microchip boards (sama5d27-som1-ek, sama5d29-curiosity,
sama7g5ek) with two card slots the defconfigs only differ in BOOTARGS,
BOOTCOMMAND, and ENV_FAT_DEVICE_AND_PART and the same should be the case
for sam9x60_curiosity.
Here the 'mmc1' config has more options enabled to support the raw NAND
flash populated on the board, so the 'mmc' config (for mmc0) was adapted
by enabling additional options, instead of removing options from mmc1.
The 'mem=128M' argument can be dropped from kernel command line, because
it is redundant to memory node in dts in both Linux and U-Boot:
memory@20000000 {
reg = <0x20000000 0x8000000>;
};
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
- A few platform-specific config/dts updates to fix issues, drop a
temporary change in binman, update the MAINTAINERS file to remove
Wolfgang Denk, fix a typo, fix a corner case with bootstd, update
Azure to not timeout so easily, and fix a case where we would omit
some files in SPL.
This reverts commit c5b68ef8af.
CONFIG_OPTEE_TZDRAM_SIZE is used by imx6-based SoCs as well. Move the
option back.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Salveti <ricardo@foundries.io>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Suvorov <oleksandr.suvorov@foundries.io>
The affected boards have been fixed, so drop this hack.
This reverts commit 288ae53cb7.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
Adding a phandle to a template node is not allowed, since when the node is
instantiated multiple times, we end up with duplicate phandles.
Drop this invalid constructs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
If one of SHA* algorithms is disabled in u-boot, its code is not
included in SPL even if a given SHA* option is enabled in SPL. Fix
this.
Fixes: 603d15a572 ("spl: cypto: Bring back SPL_ versions of SHA")
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Suvorov <oleksandr.suvorov@foundries.io>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
As per current Azure Pipelines documentation we qualify for 3600 minutes
per job, if specified, as the timeout. The default unspecified timeout
is 60 minutes. Rework things to specify 0 as the timeout (and so maximum
allowed) so that we don't have failures due to running slightly past 60
minutes total.
Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/phases?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml#timeouts
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Similar to MT7981 and MT7986 also MT7988 can have a high number of
reserved-memory regions used by the various hardware offloading
subsystems.
Raise CONFIG_LMB_MAX_REGIONS to 64 to avoid errors when trying to boot
Linux with more then 6 reserved regions:
ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=4f700000 size=240000 flags=4)
ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=15194000 size=1000 flags=4)
ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=15294000 size=1000 flags=4)
ERROR: reserving fdt memory region failed (addr=15394000 size=1000 flags=4)
ERROR: Failed to allocate 0xb161 bytes below 0x80000000.
device tree - allocation error
Fixes: bc4adc97cf ("board: mediatek: add MT7988 reference boards")
Reported-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
This should have already been enabled but was missed when converting the
base platform defconfig, fix this here.
Fixes: 3c5aa6cacc ("configs: Enable CONFIG_BLK in am57xx_evm and am57xx_hs_evm")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The existing distro scripts check extlinux and scripts before EFI. Adjust
the default ordering to do the same, to avoid breaking existing flows.
Add some documentation, mentioning that this order will likely change in
future.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Da Xue <da@libre.computer>
Ethernet on Bananapi-r3 is broken after
commit bd70f3cea3 ("net: mediatek: add support for SGMII 1Gbps auto-negotiation mode")
because changes from this commit were not applied to bpi-r3 devicetree too:
commit aef54ea16c ("arm: dts: medaitek: convert gmac link mode to 2500base-x")
Signed-off-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@public-files.de>
Reviewed-by: Weijie Gao <weijie.gao@mediatek.com>
The Kconfig references a readme file that's moved and
converted to rst so update the reference.
Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Documentation:
* describe TPL/VPL/SPL boot
* Add support for sphinx-prompt and convert TI K3 to use it
* board: sdm845: Explicitly add boot.img flashing command
EFI:
* remove handle from events when deleting it
Others:
* fix gpt sub-commands setenv and enumerate
* add a parameter check in hash_calculate()
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Merge tag 'efi-2023-10-rc4' of https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi
Pull request efi-2023-10-rc4
Documentation:
* describe TPL/VPL/SPL boot
* Add support for sphinx-prompt and convert TI K3 to use it
* board: sdm845: Explicitly add boot.img flashing command
EFI:
* remove handle from events when deleting it
Others:
* fix gpt sub-commands setenv and enumerate
* add a parameter check in hash_calculate()
When a notification event is registered for a protocol the handle of the
protocol is added in our event notification list. When all the protocols
of the handle are uninstalled we delete the handle but we do not remove
it from the event notification list.
Clean up the protocol removal functions and add a wrapper which
- Removes the to-be deleted handle from any lists it participates
- Remove the handle if no more protocols are present
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
This is a stub describing how TPL, VPL, and SPL load the next boot stages
on a detail level for users.
For sure we will need a few patches on top to catch the whole complexity.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@bp.renesas.com>
Sphinx-prompt provides a handy scheme to provide documentation that
renders nicely and yet provides a scheme to copy paste for users without
having to hand-edit the copied text as is the result of code-block
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87fs48rgto.fsf@baylibre.com/
Reported-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Sphinx-prompt[1] helps bring-in '.. prompt::' option that allows a
better rendered documentation, yet be able to copy paste without
picking up the prompt from rendered documentation.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87fs48rgto.fsf@baylibre.com/
Suggested-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Use code-block. Fix length of two heading underlines.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
In commands like 'ls mmc 0:f' the partition number is hexadecimal.
In command 'gpt setenv' variable gpt_partition_entry needs to be set
to a hexadecimal value to allow its use as a parameter in a
subsequent command.
Fixes: 57f8cf1b9aea ("cmd: fix gpt enumerate")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Do not assume that partitions are numbered continuously starting at 1.
Only a single partition table type can exist on a block device. If we found
a GPT partition table, we must not re-enumerate with the MBR partition
driver which would find the protective partition.
Fixes: 12fc1f3bb2 ("cmd: gpt: add eMMC and GPT support")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Do not assume that partitions are continuously numbered starting at 1.
Having a partition table with a single partition 63 is valid.
Fixes: 12fc1f3bb2 ("cmd: gpt: add eMMC and GPT support")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
If hash_calculate is invoked with region_count = 0, it will try to hash
INT_MAX regions. We should check this parameter.
* Avoid a comparison with different signedness.
* Check that region_count is at least 1.
* Avoid a superfluous assignment.
Fixes: b37b46f042 ("rsa: Use checksum algorithms from struct hash_algo")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
First, update CI to using gcc-13.2 from 13.1, and rebuild the CI
containers. This is needed because the second part adds utilities for
tests and provides, to quote the author:
This updates the ChromiumOS bootmeth to detect multiple kernel
partitions on a disk.
It also includes minor code improvements to the partition drivers,
including accessors for the optional fields.
This series also includes some other related tweaks in testing.
