[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 5/6] rockchip: kylin: Enable boot with android boot image

Jeffy Chen
2016-01-15T02:20:43Z

Hi Tom,

On 2016-1-15 8:59, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:53:06AM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On 2016-1-15 0:22, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:31:34AM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-1-13 23:28, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:53:19PM +0800, Jeffy Chen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The android kernel is using appended dtb by default, and store
>>>>>> ramdisk right after kernel & dtb.
>>>>>> So we needs to relocate ramdisk, and use atags to pass params.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>
>>>>>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Changes in v4: None
>>>>>> Changes in v3: None
>>>>>> Changes in v2: None
>>>>>>
>>>>>> include/configs/kylin_rk3036.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/include/configs/kylin_rk3036.h b/include/configs/kylin_rk3036.h
>>>>>> index b750b26..49997ec 100644
>>>>>> --- a/include/configs/kylin_rk3036.h
>>>>>> +++ b/include/configs/kylin_rk3036.h
>>>>>> @@ -35,6 +35,29 @@
>>>>>> #undef CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
>>>>>> #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
>>>>>> "partitions=" PARTS_DEFAULT \
>>>>>> + "mmcdev=0\0" \
>>>>>> + "mmcpart=5\0" \
>>>>>> + "loadaddr=" __stringify(CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR) "\0" \
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH
>>>>> This should already be set.
>>>> Right, i'll remove it...
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +#undef CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND \
>>>>>> + "mmc dev ${mmcdev}; if mmc rescan; then " \
>>>>>> + "part start mmc ${mmcdev} ${mmcpart} boot_start;" \
>>>>>> + "part size mmc ${mmcdev} ${mmcpart} boot_size;" \
>>>>>> + "mmc read ${loadaddr} ${boot_start} ${boot_size};" \
>>>>>> + "bootm start ${loadaddr}; bootm ramdisk;" \
>>>>>> + "bootm prep; bootm go;" \
>>>>>> + "fi;" \
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +/* Enable atags */
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTPARAMS_LEN (64*1024)
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_INITRD_TAG
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_SETUP_MEMORY_TAGS
>>>>>> +#define CONFIG_CMDLINE_TAG
>>>>> But I'm confused as to what exactly is going on here. Appended dtb is
>>>>> not the same as ATAGS. And you shouldn't need to split up bootm like
>>>>> that. Can you please explain a bit more? Thanks!
>>>> The u-boot will pass atags to kernel, and kernel will merge those
>>>> atags into the appended dtb(fdt).
>>>>
>>>> The default bootm flow would not pass ramdisk state, but we need it,
>>>> so we should add this state into default flow, or just use split
>>>> bootm cmds :)
>>> That seems very strange. Is the ramdisk concatenated with the kernel
>>> and dtb as well (and that's why bootm ramdisk somehow finds it but
>>> normal bootm doesn't as you aren't passing in a ramdisk address) ?
>> Yes, the ramdisk concatenated with the kernel and dtb as
>> well(u-boot/include/android_image.h: struct andr_img_hdr).
>>
>> And the normal bootm cmd would find it by parsing andr_img_hdr struct.
>> But we still need bootm ramdisk state, because it will call
>> boot_ramdisk_high to relocate ramdisk area :)
>>
>> I found if not relocate it to somewhere else, it would be corrupted
>> after kernel's decompressing(during update fdt area).
> So 'bootm $loadaddr' of an Android image sees, but does not relocate the
> ramdisk that is included in the image, but bootm ramdisk does? That
> sounds like a bug in the regular bootm handling.
Yep, the default bootm flow would not contain ramdisk relocate state:

vi common/cmd_bootm.c
return do_bootm_states(cmdtp, flag, argc, argv, BOOTM_STATE_START |
BOOTM_STATE_FINDOS | BOOTM_STATE_FINDOTHER |
BOOTM_STATE_LOADOS |
#if defined(CONFIG_PPC) || defined(CONFIG_MIPS)
BOOTM_STATE_OS_CMDLINE |
#endif
BOOTM_STATE_OS_PREP | BOOTM_STATE_OS_FAKE_GO |
BOOTM_STATE_OS_GO, &images, 1);

But i'm not sure if it's ok to add it here...