Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] riscv: dts: starfive: generate u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out

["Milan P. Stanić" <mps@arvanta.net>]

On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 14:00, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The StarFive VisionFive 2 board cannot load spl/u-boot-spl.bin but needs a
> prefixed header. We have referring to a vendor tool (spl_tool) for this
> task. 'mkimage -T sfspl' can generate the prefixed file.
> 
> Use binman to invoke mkimage for the generation of file
> spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out.
> 
> Update the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Chanho Park <chanho61.park@samsung.com>

Tested-by: Milan P. Stanić <mps@arvanta.net>

> ---
> v2:
> 	Fix a typo in a comment in tools/sfspl.c
> 	Add Tested-by credit
> ---
>  .../dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi   | 10 ++++++++++
>  doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst                 | 14 ++------------
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> index 13f69da31e..defe2b605f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/riscv/dts/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-u-boot.dtsi
> @@ -103,4 +103,14 @@
>  			};
>  		};
>  	};
> +	u-boot-spl {
> +		filename = "spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out";
> +
> +		mkimage {
> +			args = "-T sfspl";
> +			blob {
> +				filename = "spl/u-boot-spl.bin";
> +			};
> +		};
> +	};
>  };
> diff --git a/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst b/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> index 941899a0a4..f5575ab68b 100644
> --- a/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> +++ b/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst
> @@ -65,18 +65,8 @@ Now build the U-Boot SPL and U-Boot proper
>  	make starfive_visionfive2_defconfig
>  	make OPENSBI=$(opensbi_dir)/opensbi/build/platform/generic/firmware/fw_dynamic.bin
>  
> -This will generate spl/u-boot-spl.bin and FIT image (u-boot.itb)
> -
> -u-boot-spl.bin cannot be used directly on StarFive VisionFive2,we need
> -to convert the u-boot-spl.bin to u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out with
> -the below command:
> -
> -	./spl_tool -c -f $(Uboot_PATH)/spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> -
> -More detailed description of spl_tool,please refer spl_tool documenation.
> -(Note: spl_tool git repo is at https://github.com/starfive-tech/Tools/tree/master/spl_tool)
> -
> -This will generate u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out file.
> +This will generate the U-Boot SPL image (spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out) as well
> +as the FIT image (u-boot.itb) with OpenSBI and U-Boot.
>  
>  Flashing
>  ~~~~~~~~