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From: Yixun Lan <dlan@kernel.org>
To: Junhui Liu <junhui.liu@pigmoral.tech>
Cc: u-boot@lists.u-boot-project.org, Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
	Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
	Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>, Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
	E Shattow <e@freeshell.de>, Yao Zi <me@ziyao.cc>,
	spacemit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] tools: mkimage: add SpacemiT K3 boot image support
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:27:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921232755-GKA353745@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921-spacemit-aihd-v3-0-f660fc85d2a5@pigmoral.tech>

Hi Junhui,

On 22:54 Mon 21 Sep     , Junhui Liu wrote:
> The SpacemiT BootROM loads a first-stage bootloader from storage or over
> USB in MaskROM mode. Vendor firmware packages this bootloader as FSBL.bin.
> 
> This series documents the SpacemiT boot image format and adds the
> "smtimage" mkimage type for the CRC32-protected K3 variant used in
> non-secure boot mode. It provides the FSBL packaging needed for future
> K3 SPL support. Select K3 with "-n k3" when creating an image.
> 
> K1 and K3 secure boot use RSA authentication and are not supported yet.
> 
> How to test
> -----------
> 
> Rebuild mkimage, wrap a small UART test payload, and load it through K3
> MaskROM fastboot. The payload is linked at 0xc0801000 because the BootROM
> places the complete image at 0xc0800000 and enters the payload after the
> 4 KiB prefix. UART0 should print "Hello SpacemiT K3!" and then loop
> indefinitely.
> 
>   $ make tools-only_defconfig
>   $ make tools-only
> 
>   $ cat > k3-uart.S << 'EOF'
>   	.equ	UART0_THR, 0xd4017000
> 	.equ	UART0_LSR, 0xd4017014
> 
> 	.section	.text
> 	.global	_start
> _start:
> 	la	s0, str
> 1:
> 	lbu	a0, (s0)
> 	beqz	a0, exit
> 	call	uart_send
> 	addi	s0, s0, 1
> 	j	1b
> 
> exit:
> 	j	exit
> 
> uart_send:
> 	li	t0, UART0_LSR
> 	lw	t1, (t0)
> 	andi	t1, t1, 0x20
> 	beqz	t1, uart_send
> 	li	t0, UART0_THR
> 	sw	a0, (t0)
> 	ret
> 
> 	.section	.rodata
> str:
> 	.asciz	"Hello SpacemiT K3!\n"
> EOF
> 
>   $ riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc -nostdlib -fno-builtin -fno-pie -no-pie -static \
>     -march=rv64gc -mabi=lp64 -g -Wall -Wl,--build-id=none \
>     -Ttext=0xc0801000 -o k3-uart.elf k3-uart.S
>   $ riscv64-linux-gnu-objcopy -O binary k3-uart.elf k3-uart.bin
>   $ ./tools/mkimage -T smtimage -n k3 -d k3-uart.bin k3-uart-smt.bin
> 
> Hold the FDL button, power on the board to enter MaskROM, then run
> fastboot on host:
> 
>   $ fastboot stage k3-uart-smt.bin
>   $ fastboot continue
> 
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Align the uimage_type table entry with surrounding columns
> - Explicitly include the needed headers
> - Drop SMT_PAYLOAD_ALIGN macro
> - Simplify the NULL check in smtimage_get_variant()
> - Fix the title underline length in smtimage.rst
> - Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260909-spacemit-aihd-v2-0-780e98cf2fec@pigmoral.tech
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Use "smtimage" for the image type
> - Update the documentation and command examples to match
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260822-spacemit-aihd-v1-0-bf4c41993891@pigmoral.tech
> 
> ---
> Junhui Liu (2):
>       tools: mkimage: add SpacemiT K3 boot image support
>       doc: board: spacemit: document the SpacemiT boot image format
> 
>  boot/image.c                    |   1 +
>  doc/board/spacemit/index.rst    |   2 +-
>  doc/board/spacemit/smtimage.rst | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/image.h                 |   1 +
>  tools/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  tools/smtimage.c                | 208 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> ---
Looks good, so with

Reviewed-by: Yixun Lan <dlan@kernel.org>

-- 
Yixun Lan (dlan)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-21 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-21 14:54 [PATCH v3 0/2] tools: mkimage: add SpacemiT K3 boot image support Junhui Liu
2026-09-21 14:54 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Junhui Liu
2026-09-21 14:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: board: spacemit: document the SpacemiT boot image format Junhui Liu
2026-10-05  0:40   ` E Shattow
2026-10-05  4:25     ` Junhui Liu
2026-10-05 14:15       ` E Shattow
2026-09-21 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] tools: mkimage: add SpacemiT K3 boot image support Yao Zi
2026-09-21 23:27 ` Yixun Lan [this message]
2026-10-05  0:54 ` E Shattow

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