u-boot/doc/mvebu/cmd/bubt.txt
Pali Rohár c8f5009029 cmd: mvebu/bubt: Add support for writing image to SATA disk
All 32-bit Armada SoCs and also 64-bit Armada 3720 SoC can load and boot
firmware from SATA disk. This adds support for updating firmware binary for
these SoCs. On 32-bit Armada SoC is firmware stored at sector 1 and on
Armada 3720 is stored at MBR partition 0x4d or GPT partition with type GUID
6828311A-BA55-42A4-BCDE-A89BB5EDECAE (Marvell Armada 3700 Boot partition).

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
2023-03-01 06:39:17 +01:00

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BUBT (Burn ATF) command
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Bubt command is used to burn a new ATF image to flash device.
The bubt command gets the following parameters: ATF file name, destination device and source device.
bubt [file-name] [destination [source]]
- file-name Image file name to burn. default = flash-image.bin
- destination Flash to burn to [spi, nand, mmc, sata]. default = active flash
- source Source to load image from [tftp, usb]. default = tftp
Examples:
bubt - Burn flash-image.bin from tftp to active flash
bubt latest-spi.bin nand - Burn latest-spi.bin from tftp to NAND flash
Notes:
- For the TFTP interface set serverip and ipaddr.
- To burn image to SD/eMMC device, the target is defined by HW partition.
Bubt command details (burn image step by-step)
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This section describes bubt command flow:
1. Fetch the requested ATF image from an available interface (USB/SD/SATA/XDB, etc.)
into the DRAM, and place it at <load_address>
Example: when using the FAT file system on USB flash device:
# usb reset
# fatls usb 0 (see files in device)
# fatload usb 0 <load_address> <file_name>
2. Erase the target device:
- NAND: # nand erase 0 100000
- SPI: # sf probe 0
# sf erase 0 100000
- SD/eMMC: # mmc dev <dev_id> <boot_partition>
Notes:
- The eMMC has 2 boot partitions (BOOT0 and BOOT1) and a user data partition (DATA).
The boot partitions are numbered as partition 1 and 2 in MMC driver.
Number 0 is used for user data partition and should not be utilized for storing
boot images and U-Boot environment in RAW mode since it will break file system
structures usually located here.
Currently configured boot partition can be printed by command:
# mmc partconf 0
(search for BOOT_PARTITION_ACCESS output, number 7 is user data)
Change it to BOOT0:
# mmc partconf 0 0 1 1
Change it to BOOT1:
# mmc partconf 0 0 2 2
Change it to user data:
# mmc partconf 0 0 7 0
- The partition number is ignored if the target device is SD card.
- The boot image offset starts at block 0 for eMMC and block 1 for SD devices.
The block 0 on SD devices is left for MBR storage.
3. Write the ATF image:
- NAND: # nand write <load_address> 0 <ATF Size>
- SPI: # sf write <load_address> 0 <ATF Size>
- SD/eMMC: # mmc write <load_address> [0|1] <ATF Size>/<block_size>