From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:40:30 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] jetson-tk1: Set fdtfile environment variable In-Reply-To: <570E803E.6050305@suse.de> References: <1460551699-30796-1-git-send-email-afaerber@suse.de> <570E41C0.1010904@suse.de> <570E665F.405@wwwdotorg.org> <570E803E.6050305@suse.de> Message-ID: <570E848E.2060408@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 04/13/2016 11:22 AM, Andreas F?rber wrote: > Am 13.04.2016 um 17:31 schrieb Stephen Warren: >> On 04/13/2016 06:55 AM, Andreas F?rber wrote: >>> Am 13.04.2016 um 14:48 schrieb Andreas F?rber: >>>> The 4.5.0 kernel cannot cope with U-Boot's internal device tree, and the >>>> distro boot commands are looking for $fdtfile, so provide it to avoid >>>> having users supply a dumb boot.scr doing a setenv fdtfile ...; boot, >>>> defeating the purpose of generic EFI boot. >>>> >>>> Cc: Stephen Warren >>>> Cc: Alexander Graf >>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas F?rber >>>> --- >>>> include/configs/jetson-tk1.h | 4 ++++ >>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/include/configs/jetson-tk1.h b/include/configs/jetson-tk1.h >>>> index 59dbb20..82a4be4 100644 >>>> --- a/include/configs/jetson-tk1.h >>>> +++ b/include/configs/jetson-tk1.h >>>> @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ >>>> /* General networking support */ >>>> #define CONFIG_CMD_DHCP >>>> >>>> +#define BOARD_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \ >>>> + "fdtfile=tegra124-jetson-tk1.dtb\0" \ >>>> + "" >>> >>> Is there any more intelligent solution than doing this for each board? >> >> Yes, the distro boot scripts shouldn't be using $fdtfile unconditionally >> since it's not guaranteed to be set. The model is that boot scripts >> determine the FDT filename, and $fdtfile is an optional override. >> >> It looks like the hard-coded use of $fdtfile was added into the EFI >> path, which I didn't get to review, and which shouldn't be enabled by >> default but unfortunately is. > > As Alex described, you're entirely missing the point here. Well, that's because the point you're making is re: the benefits of EFI, but that's not the point the patch is addressing nor the point I'm objecting to. The patch addresses the need for all boards to set $fdtfile. That is what I'm arguing about. The benefits of EFI aren't relevant to this discussion. > The EFI bootloader is an alternative to a board-specific script, not an > addition. The loading logic is all in the U-Boot environment and it > needs to know what device tree to use without the user telling it: > > a) master branch searches for $fdtfile in various prefixes on the > current boot device partition. > > a') We're testing a variation where we load $fdtfile from a different > partition on the same device (i.e., from ext4/btrfs rather that fat). > > b) A pending patch exposes the internal U-Boot device tree. > > The former is what we need to boot today. For openSUSE we get the .dtb > files from rpm packages built from the kernel. > > The latter would match the Tianocore/Aptio model where all board info > comes from the firmware exclusively. As reported elsewhere it does not > yet work on this board with your DT though; you yourselves discussed > about differing cell sizes and node names. > > Now during my EFI testing I had to repeatedly remember to interrupt > U-Boot and type: > > setenv fdtfile tegra124-jetson-tk1.dtb You can always run "saveenv" here. Admittedly it's not a nice user-experience to have to do that, but it's a workaround that would work today. > boot > > until I got so annoyed that I figured out this patch to make it permanent. > > The hikey and some other boards got their variable renamed to fit > standardized $fdtfile, for dragonboard410c I sent a similar patch. > > My above question was more precisely: Can we automate supplying the > $fdtfile at tegra124-common.h or tegra-common.h level instead of as in > this patch manually at jetson-tk1.h level where I happened to notice? As I mentioned in my other reply, it would be better if the EFI logic handled this, rather than requiring every board to solve the problem over and over. > The Raspberry Pi has been supplying $fdtfile just fine (modulo the rev > B), so I don't understand why you'd be against it now. I have no objection to boards setting $fdtfile where they need to. Some U-Boot boards support multiple HW, so it's a base requirement that the code supply $fdtfile since there's no other way to know what the correct value is. Other boards only operate on a single piece of HW, and we shouldn't burden every config header (or other board-specific code/...) with defining this value since there's a reasonable default that core code could use. Rather, let's deal with it in some core code (not per-SoC, but U-Boot-wide), for example using the code snippet I posted in my other response. > Thanks, > Andreas > > P.S. Without a standardized $fdtfile you can't have a standard boot.scr > either, so the generic mechanism becomes moot. That's not true. the model there is to use ${soc} ${board} and ${boardver} to construct it. I thought that was documented in doc/README.distro, but perhaps I only mentioned it in commit descriptions and scripts that build boot.scr, e.g.: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-uboot-scripts/blob/master/gen-uboot-script.py#L133 :-(