From: Johan Jonker <jbx6244@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@0leil.net
Cc: kever.yang@rock-chips.com, sjg@chromium.org, trini@konsulko.com,
u-boot@lists.u-boot-project.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/11] rockchip: tools: add comment section to rksd.c
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c9acc31-33f4-4305-8858-983595ce5607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <734d54aa-6523-4c2b-ba3a-a51b063a340e@gmail.com>
README.rockchip must be removed.
Move the rksd comment section to rksd.c
Signed-off-by: Johan Jonker <jbx6244@gmail.com>
---
tools/rksd.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/rksd.c b/tools/rksd.c
index 7d46a1b07b3a..ea12b9cac12e 100644
--- a/tools/rksd.c
+++ b/tools/rksd.c
@@ -3,7 +3,26 @@
* (C) Copyright 2015 Google, Inc
* Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
*
- * See README.rockchip for details of the rksd format
+ * rksd.c produces an image consisting of 32KB of empty space, a header and
+ * u-boot-spl-dtb.bin. The header is defined by 'struct header0_info' although
+ * most of the fields are unused by U-Boot. We just need to specify the
+ * signature, a flag and the block offset and size of the SPL image.
+ *
+ * The header occupies a single block but we pad it out to 4 blocks. The header
+ * is encoding using RC4 with the key 7c4e0304550509072d2c7b38170d1711. The SPL
+ * image can be encoded too but we don't do that.
+ *
+ * The maximum size of u-boot-spl-dtb.bin which the boot ROM will read is 32KB,
+ * or 0x40 blocks. This is a severe and annoying limitation. There may be a way
+ * around this limitation, since there is plenty of SRAM, but at present the
+ * board refuses to boot if this limit is exceeded.
+ *
+ * The image produced is padded up to a block boundary (512 bytes). It should be
+ * written to the start of an SD card using dd.
+ *
+ * Since this image is set to load U-Boot from the SD card at block offset,
+ * CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR, dd should be used to write
+ * u-boot-dtb.img to the SD card at that offset.
*/
#include "imagetool.h"
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-28 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-28 6:51 [PATCH v2 00/11] doc: clean up README.rockchip Johan Jonker
2026-07-28 6:53 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] rockchip: scripts: remove rkmux.py Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:53 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] rockchip: doc: change TPL phrase Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:54 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] rockchip: doc: add BootROM/MaskROM mode text Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:54 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] rockchip: doc: remove TODO Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:55 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] rockchip: doc: remove copyright lines Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:55 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] rockchip: doc: add more building instructions Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:40 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:56 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] rockchip: doc: add more EMMC program examples Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:41 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:56 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] rockchip: doc: add boot medium layout text Johan Jonker
[not found] ` <jbx6244@gmail.com>
2026-07-28 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2026-07-28 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2026-07-29 13:43 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:56 ` Johan Jonker [this message]
2026-07-29 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] rockchip: tools: add comment section to rksd.c Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:56 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] rockchip: tools: add comment section to rkspi.c Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:41 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-28 6:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] rockchip: doc: remove README.rockchip Johan Jonker
2026-07-29 13:43 ` Simon Glass
2026-07-29 13:44 ` [v2,00/11] doc: clean up README.rockchip Simon Glass
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