Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v12 07/16] configs/ti_am62x_sk_defconfig: bump U-Boot version to 2024.01

[Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>]

Hello Arnout,

Le 08/04/2024 à 15:00, Arnout Vandecappelle a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 07/04/2024 12:35, Romain Naour wrote:
>> From: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
>>
>> The 2024.01 version of U-Boot for the am62x-sk board has introduced two
>> major changes:
>> - The device tree k3-am625-sk.dtb is no longer searched in /boot, but in
>>    /boot/dtb/ti. Hence, the disabling of BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INSTALL_TARGET
>>    and the use of extlinux.conf for the proper loading of the device tree.
>>    Furthermore, the parameter BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS was used to
>>    auto-generate the extlinux.conf file so that developers can change the
>>    kernel loading options by modifying the .config.
>> - U-Boot is capable of building tiboot3.bin using Binman. So it's no longer
>>    necessary to use custom tools like ti-k3-image-gen.
>> - Use a custom tiboot3.bin since the default is "hs-fs",
>>    but the ti_am62x_sk_defconfig expect the "gp" one
>>
>> Tested on SK-AM62B-P1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>
> 
> [snip]
>> +cat <<-__HEADER_EOF > "${BINARIES_DIR}/extlinux.conf"
>> +    label am62x-sk-buildroot
>> +      kernel /Image
>> +      fdtdir /
>> +      devicetree /${DEVICETREE}
>> +      append ${append}
> 
>  I wonder if it's really useful to have this custom extlinux.conf... We could
> also give the devicetree a common name, and move the append line into the device
> tree itself.
> 
>  But this patch has had enough iterations, let's just keep it as is :-)
> 
> [snip]
>> -BR2_TARGET_TI_K3_R5_LOADER_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2022.10"
>> +BR2_TARGET_TI_K3_R5_LOADER_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2024.01"
> 
>  The hash for 2024.01 is currently in boot/uboot/uboot.hash, but as soon as we
> update the U-Boot version, it will no longer be. So to be future safe, we should
> add a local override of the uboot hash file as well (which is simply identical
> to uboot.hash).

I updated board/ti/am62x-sk/patches/ti-k3-r5-loader/ti-k3-r5-loader.hash in this
version, so we are future safe already :)

Best regards,
Romain


> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
> 
>>   BR2_TARGET_TI_K3_R5_LOADER_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="am62x_evm_r5"
>> +BR2_TARGET_TI_K3_R5_LOADER_TIBOOT3_BIN="tiboot3-am62x-gp-evm.bin"
>> +BR2_TARGET_TI_K3_R5_LOADER_USE_BINMAN=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
>> -BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2022.10"
>> +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2024.01"
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="am62x_evm_a53"
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_OPENSSL=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_ATF_BL31=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_TI_K3_BOOT_FIRMWARE=y
>> +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_USE_BINMAN=y
>>   # BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_BIN is not set
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_FORMAT_IMG=y
>>   BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_SPL=y

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