From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: [meta-rockchip][PATCH] enable stored U-Boot environment
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:53:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240321175340.20640-1-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
When U-Boot is built it is compiled with a set of environment variables
(and their values) built into the U-Boot binary. U-Boot can be configured
to use storage to load and/or store environment variables which can persist
over reboots. This storage could be (but not limited to) a chunk of an MMC
device, it could be in SPI, or simply a file in the device's filesystem. If
this storage-based environment is valid (checksum is verified) U-Boot will
use these values over any same values which are built-in.
By default some of the MACHINES in this BSP layer are configured to use
a persistent U-Boot environment, others are not. It all depends on what
is set in the specific defconfig file for the device found in upstream,
mainline U-Boot. This is, apparently, random.
If you want to ensure that you have access to an on-boot-device, persistent
U-Boot environment, simply add the following to MACHINE_FEATURES in your
configuration:
rk-u-boot-env
If you have enabled this feature, you now have a second choice to make:
do you want your build to include the U-Boot environment in the image or
not? The default environment, as generated by U-Boot, can be included in
the generated wic image. If it is included, then flashing the image will
also flash the default U-Boot environment variables and settings, wiping
out anything that might have been there already. If it is not included then
your device will either continue using whatever environment happens to be
there, or will not use any stored environment if the stored environment has
not been set or is invalid. The variable which governs this behaviour is:
RK_IMAGE_INCLUDES_UBOOT_ENV
By default this is set to "0", meaning that by default the image does
not contain the U-Boot environment. To enable this behaviour, set this
variable to "1" in your configuration. This variable only takes effect if
the rk-u-boot-env MACHINE_FEATURE is enabled, and has no effect otherwise.
The script:
scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh
can be used on your wic file to see the contents of the U-Boot environment
partition at build time.
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
---
README | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
classes/rk-u-boot-env.bbclass | 1 +
conf/machine/include/rockchip-wic.inc | 10 +++++
.../rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg | 4 ++
.../rockchip-enable-environment-mmc0.cfg | 1 +
.../rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg | 1 +
recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_%.bbappend | 24 ++++++++++
scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh | 29 ++++++++++++
wic/rockchip.wks | 2 +-
9 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 classes/rk-u-boot-env.bbclass
create mode 100644 recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg
create mode 100644 recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc0.cfg
create mode 100644 recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg
create mode 100755 scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4c30f7529353..e357e093d45f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -67,6 +67,51 @@ Notes:
in the configuration (e.g. conf/local.conf).
+U-Boot Environment:
+------------------
+ When U-Boot is built it is compiled with a set of environment variables
+ (and their values) built into the U-Boot binary. U-Boot can be configured
+ to use storage to load and/or store environment variables which can persist
+ over reboots. This storage could be (but not limited to) a chunk of an MMC
+ device, it could be in SPI, or simply a file in the device's filesystem. If
+ this storage-based environment is valid (checksum is verified) U-Boot will
+ use these values over any same values which are built-in.
+
+ By default some of the MACHINES in this BSP layer are configured to use
+ a persistent U-Boot environment, others are not. It all depends on what
+ is set in the specific defconfig file for the device found in upstream,
+ mainline U-Boot. This is, apparently, random.
+
+ If you want to ensure that you have access to an on-boot-device, persistent
+ U-Boot environment, simply add the following to MACHINE_FEATURES in your
+ configuration:
+
+ rk-u-boot-env
+
+ If you have enabled this feature, you now have a second choice to make:
+ do you want your build to include the U-Boot environment in the image or
+ not? The default environment, as generated by U-Boot, can be included in
+ the generated wic image. If it is included, then flashing the image will
+ also flash the default U-Boot environment variables and settings, wiping
+ out anything that might have been there already. If it is not included then
+ your device will either continue using whatever environment happens to be
+ there, or will not use any stored environment if the stored environment has
+ not been set or is invalid. The variable which governs this behaviour is:
+
+ RK_IMAGE_INCLUDES_UBOOT_ENV
+
+ By default this is set to "0", meaning that by default the image does
+ not contain the U-Boot environment. To enable this behaviour, set this
+ variable to "1" in your configuration. This variable only takes effect if
+ the rk-u-boot-env MACHINE_FEATURE is enabled, and has no effect otherwise.
+
+ The script:
+
+ scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh
+
+ can be used on your wic file to see the contents of the U-Boot environment
+ partition at build time.
+
Maintenance:
-----------
Please send pull requests, patches, comments, or questions to the
diff --git a/classes/rk-u-boot-env.bbclass b/classes/rk-u-boot-env.bbclass
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2de3a54d35c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/classes/rk-u-boot-env.bbclass
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+MACHINEOVERRIDES .= "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'rk-u-boot-env', ':rk-u-boot-env', '', d)}"
diff --git a/conf/machine/include/rockchip-wic.inc b/conf/machine/include/rockchip-wic.inc
index 147a36685d7d..eea4798a05c3 100644
--- a/conf/machine/include/rockchip-wic.inc
+++ b/conf/machine/include/rockchip-wic.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
require conf/machine/include/rockchip-extlinux.inc
+# u-boot environment
+# any MACHINE that is using wic is using U-Boot
+# if rk-u-boot-env is enabled, then include the u-boot-env package
+IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'rk-u-boot-env', 'u-boot-env', '', d)}"
+
SPL_BINARY ?= "idbloader.img"
IMAGE_FSTYPES += "wic wic.bmap"
@@ -11,7 +16,12 @@ WKS_FILE_DEPENDS ?= " \
virtual/bootloader \
"
+RK_IMAGE_INCLUDES_UBOOT_ENV ?= "0"
+RK_UBOOT_ENV = "${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'rk-u-boot-env', \
+ bb.utils.contains('RK_IMAGE_INCLUDES_UBOOT_ENV', '1', '--source rawcopy --sourceparams=file=u-boot.env', ' ', d), \
+ ' ', d)}"
WICVARS:append = " \
SPL_BINARY \
UBOOT_SUFFIX \
+ RK_UBOOT_ENV \
"
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0e124376cf36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=0x8000
+CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET=0x3f8000
+# CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE is not set
+CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc0.cfg b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc0.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6519ebd43e0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc0.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV=0
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..449e045cd643
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/rk-u-boot-env/rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV=1
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_%.bbappend b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_%.bbappend
index f8378d91ce68..ae50e4f5226d 100644
--- a/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_%.bbappend
+++ b/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot_%.bbappend
@@ -1,13 +1,23 @@
+inherit rk-u-boot-env deploy
+
FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
SRC_URI:append:rock-pi-e = " \
file://PATCH_1-2_net_designware_Reset_eth_phy_before_phy_connect.patch \
file://PATCH_2-2_rockchip_rk3328-rock-pi-e_Enable_DM_ETH_PHY_and_PHY_REALTEK.patch \
"
+# config fragments for enabling u-boot environment
+SRC_URI:append:rk-u-boot-env = " file://rockchip-enable-environment-mmc.cfg"
+SRC_URI:append:rk-u-boot-env:rk3308 = " file://rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg"
+SRC_URI:append:rk-u-boot-env:rk3399 = " file://rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg"
+SRC_URI:append:rk-u-boot-env:rk3568 = " file://rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg"
+SRC_URI:append:rk-u-boot-env:rk3588s = " file://rockchip-enable-environment-mmc1.cfg"
+
# various machines require the pyelftools library for parsing dtb files
DEPENDS:append = " python3-pyelftools-native"
DEPENDS:append:rk3308 = " u-boot-tools-native"
DEPENDS:append:rock-pi-4 = " gnutls-native"
+DEPENDS:append:rk-u-boot-env = " u-boot-mkenvimage-native"
EXTRA_OEMAKE:append:px30 = " BL31=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/bl31-px30.elf"
EXTRA_OEMAKE:append:rk3308 = " \
@@ -40,3 +50,17 @@ do_compile:append:rock2-square () {
cp ${B}/spl/${SPL_BINARY} ${B}
fi
}
+
+do_compile:append:rk-u-boot-env() {
+ UBOOT_ENV_SIZE="$(cat ${B}/.config | grep "^CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=" | cut -d'=' -f2)"
+ UBOOT_MMC_DEV="$(cat ${B}/.config | grep "^CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV=" | cut -d'=' -f2)"
+ echo "/dev/mmcblk${UBOOT_MMC_DEV}p5 0x0000 ${UBOOT_ENV_SIZE}" > ${WORKDIR}/fw_env.config
+}
+
+do_deploy:append:rk-u-boot-env() {
+ UBOOT_ENV_SIZE="$(cat ${B}/.config | grep "^CONFIG_ENV_SIZE=" | cut -d'=' -f2)"
+ mkenvimage -s ${UBOOT_ENV_SIZE} ${B}/u-boot-initial-env -o ${WORKDIR}/u-boot.env
+
+ install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
+ install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/u-boot.env ${DEPLOYDIR}
+}
diff --git a/scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh b/scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..c10c562ae53a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dump-uboot-env-from-yocto-image.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#/bin/bash
+#
+# a program that can take a wic file and dump out the contents
+# of the U-Boot environment in canonical hex+ascii format
+# (assuming the "rockchip" layout specified in this layer's wic file)
+
+# check for programs
+check_pgm() {
+ $1 --help > /dev/null 2>&1
+ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+ echo "required program \"$1\" not found"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+}
+check_pgm bc
+check_pgm dd
+check_pgm hexdump
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+ echo "required param missing: yocto wic image"
+ exit 1
+fi
+if [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
+ echo "specified file \"$1\" not found"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+SKIP=$(echo "8128 * 512" | bc)
+dd if="$1" ibs=1 skip=$SKIP count=32k 2> /dev/null | hexdump -C
diff --git a/wic/rockchip.wks b/wic/rockchip.wks
index a9e5508d3ff5..febb826bccc7 100644
--- a/wic/rockchip.wks
+++ b/wic/rockchip.wks
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ part loader1 --offset 64s --fixed-size 3552K --fstype=none --source rawcopy
part v_storage --offset 7168s --fixed-size 256K --fstype=none
part reserved --offset 7680s --fixed-size 192K --fstype=none
part reserved1 --offset 8064s --fixed-size 32K --fstype=none
-part uboot_env --offset 8128s --fixed-size 32K --fstype=none
+part uboot_env --offset 8128s --fixed-size 32K --fstype=none ${RK_UBOOT_ENV}
part reserved2 --offset 8192s --fixed-size 4096K --fstype=none
part loader2 --offset 16384s --fixed-size 4096K --fstype=none --source rawcopy --sourceparams="file=u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX}"
part atf --offset 24576s --fixed-size 4096K --fstype=none
--
2.43.0.76.g1a87c842ece3
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2024-03-21 18:35 ` [yocto] [meta-rockchip][PATCH] enable stored U-Boot environment Quentin Schulz
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