1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
2#
3# Copyright (C) 2015 Google. Inc
4# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
5
6U-Boot on Rockchip
7==================
8
9A wide range of Rockchip SoCs are supported in mainline U-Boot
10
11Warning
12=======
13This document is being moved to doc/board/rockchip, so information on it
14might be incomplete or outdated.
15
16Prerequisites
17=============
18
19You will need:
20
21   - Firefly RK3288 board or something else with a supported RockChip SoC
22   - Power connection to 5V using the supplied micro-USB power cable
23   - Separate USB serial cable attached to your computer and the Firefly
24        (connect to the micro-USB connector below the logo)
25   - rkflashtool [3]
26   - openssl (sudo apt-get install openssl)
27   - Serial UART connection [4]
28   - Suitable ARM cross compiler, e.g.:
29        sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabi
30
31Building
32========
33
341. To build RK3288 board:
35
36   CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- make O=firefly firefly-rk3288_defconfig all
37
38    (or you can use another cross compiler if you prefer)
39
402. To build RK3308 board:
41
42   See doc/board/rockchip/rockchip.rst
43
443. To build RK3399 board:
45
46   Option 1: Package the image with Rockchip miniloader:
47
48   - Compile U-Boot
49
50     => cd /path/to/u-boot
51     => make nanopi-neo4-rk3399_defconfig
52     => make
53
54   - Get the rkbin
55
56     => git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin.git
57
58   - Create trust.img
59
60     => cd /path/to/rkbin
61     => ./tools/trust_merger RKTRUST/RK3399TRUST.ini
62
63   - Create uboot.img
64
65     => cd /path/to/rkbin
66     => ./tools/loaderimage --pack --uboot /path/to/u-boot/u-boot-dtb.bin uboot.img
67
68     (Get trust.img and uboot.img)
69
70   Option 2: Package the image with SPL:
71
72   - Export cross compiler path for aarch64
73
74   - Compile ATF
75
76     => git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git
77     => cd arm-trusted-firmware
78
79     (export cross compiler path for Cortex-M0 MCU likely arm-none-eabi-)
80     => make realclean
81     => make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399
82
83    (export bl31.elf)
84    => export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.elf
85
86   - Compile PMU M0 firmware
87
88     This is optional for most of the rk3399 boards.
89
90     => git clone git://git.theobroma-systems.com/rk3399-cortex-m0.git
91     => cd rk3399-cortex-m0
92
93     (export cross compiler path for Cortex-M0 PMU)
94     => make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-cortex_m0-eabi-
95
96     (export rk3399m0.bin)
97     => export PMUM0=/path/to/rk3399-cortex-m0/rk3399m0.bin
98
99   - Compile U-Boot
100
101     => cd /path/to/u-boot
102     => make orangepi-rk3399_defconfig
103     => make
104
105     (Get spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin, u-boot.itb images and some boards would get
106      spl/u-boot-spl.bin since it doesn't enable CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL
107
108      If TPL enabled on the target, get tpl/u-boot-tpl-dtb.bin or tpl/u-boot-tpl.bin
109      if CONFIG_TPL_OF_CONTROL not enabled)
110
111Writing to the board with USB
112=============================
113
114For USB to work you must get your board into ROM boot mode, either by erasing
115your MMC or (perhaps) holding the recovery button when you boot the board.
116To erase your MMC, you can boot into Linux and type (as root)
117
118   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M
119
120Connect your board's OTG port to your computer.
121
122To create a suitable image and write it to the board:
123
124   ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rkimage -d \
125	./firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
126   cat out | openssl rc4 -K 7c4e0304550509072d2c7b38170d1711 | rkflashtool l
127
128If all goes well you should something like:
129
130   U-Boot SPL 2015.07-rc1-00383-ge345740-dirty (Jun 03 2015 - 10:06:49)
131   Card did not respond to voltage select!
132   spl: mmc init failed with error: -17
133   ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
134
135You will need to reset the board before each time you try. Yes, that's all
136it does so far. If support for the Rockchip USB protocol or DFU were added
137in SPL then we could in principle load U-Boot and boot to a prompt from USB
138as several other platforms do. However it does not seem to be possible to
139use the existing boot ROM code from SPL.
140
141
142Writing to the eMMC with USB on ROC-RK3308-CC
143=============================================
144For USB to work you must get your board into Bootrom mode,
145either by erasing the eMMC or short circuit the GND and D0
146on core board.
147
148Connect the board to your computer via tyepc.
149=> rkdeveloptool db rk3308_loader_v1.26.117.bin
150=> rkdeveloptool wl 0x40 idbloader.img
151=> rkdeveloptool wl 0x4000 u-boot.itb
152=> rkdeveloptool rd
153
154Then you will see the boot log from Debug UART at baud rate 1500000:
155DDR Version V1.26
156REGFB: 0x00000032, 0x00000032
157In
158589MHz
159DDR3
160 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=14 Size=256MB
161msch:1
162Returning to boot ROM...
163
164U-Boot SPL 2020.01-rc1-00225-g34b681327f (Nov 14 2019 - 10:58:04 +0800)
165Trying to boot from MMC1
166INFO:    Preloader serial: 2
167NOTICE:  BL31: v1.3(release):30f1405
168NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 17:08:28, Sep 23 2019
169INFO:    Lastlog: last=0x100000, realtime=0x102000, size=0x2000
170INFO:    ARM GICv2 driver initialized
171INFO:    Using opteed sec cpu_context!
172INFO:    boot cpu mask: 1
173INFO:    plat_rockchip_pmu_init: pd status 0xe b
174INFO:    BL31: Initializing runtime services
175WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will rK
176ERROR:   Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast
177INFO:    BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
178INFO:    Entry point address = 0x600000
179INFO:    SPSR = 0x3c9
180
181
182U-Boot 2020.01-rc1-00225-g34b681327f (Nov 14 2019 - 10:58:47 +0800)
183
184Model: Firefly ROC-RK3308-CC board
185DRAM:  254 MiB
186MMC:   dwmmc@ff480000: 0, dwmmc@ff490000: 1
187rockchip_dnl_key_pressed read adc key val failed
188Net:   No ethernet found.
189Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
190Card did not respond to voltage select!
191switch to partitions #0, OK
192mmc1(part 0) is current device
193Scanning mmc 1:4...
194Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
195Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
196151 bytes read in 3 ms (48.8 KiB/s)
1971:      kernel-mainline
198Retrieving file: /Image
19914737920 bytes read in 377 ms (37.3 MiB/s)
200append: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff0c0000 console=ttyS2,1500000n8
201Retrieving file: /rk3308-roc-cc.dtb
20228954 bytes read in 4 ms (6.9 MiB/s)
203Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000
204Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000
205## Loading Device Tree to 000000000df3a000, end 000000000df44119 ... OK
206
207Starting kernel ...
208[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd042]
209[    0.000000] Linux version 5.4.0-rc1-00040-g4dc2d508fa47-dirty (andy@B150) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170404 (Linaro GCC 6.3-209
210[    0.000000] Machine model: Firefly ROC-RK3308-CC board
211[    0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at MMIO32 0x00000000ff0c0000 (options '')
212[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
213
214Booting from an SD card
215=======================
216
217To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/sdc):
218
219   ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
220	firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
221   sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64 && \
222   sudo dd if=firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
223
224This puts the Rockchip header and SPL image first and then places the U-Boot
225image at block 16384 (i.e. 8MB from the start of the SD card). This
226corresponds with this setting in U-Boot:
227
228   #define CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR	0x4000
229
230Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
231something like:
232
233   U-Boot 2016.01-rc2-00309-ge5bad3b-dirty (Jan 02 2016 - 23:41:59 -0700)
234
235   Model: Radxa Rock 2 Square
236   DRAM:  2 GiB
237   MMC:   dwmmc@ff0f0000: 0, dwmmc@ff0c0000: 1
238   *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
239
240   In:    serial
241   Out:   vop@ff940000.vidconsole
242   Err:   serial
243   Net:   Net Initialization Skipped
244   No ethernet found.
245   Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
246   =>
247
248The rockchip bootrom can load and boot an initial spl, then continue to
249load a second-stage bootloader (ie. U-Boot) as soon as the control is returned
250to the bootrom. Both the RK3288 and the RK3036 use this special boot sequence.
251The configuration option enabling this is:
252
253	CONFIG_SPL_ROCKCHIP_BACK_TO_BROM=y
254
255You can create the image via the following operations:
256
257   ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
258	firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out && \
259   cat firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.bin >> out && \
260   sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
261
262Or:
263   ./firefly-rk3288/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rksd -d \
264	firefly-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin:firefly-rk3288/u-boot-dtb.bin \
265	out && \
266   sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
267
268If you have an HDMI cable attached you should see a video console.
269
270For evb_rk3036 board:
271	./evb-rk3036/tools/mkimage -n rk3036 -T rksd  -d evb-rk3036/spl/u-boot-spl.bin out && \
272	cat evb-rk3036/u-boot-dtb.bin >> out && \
273	sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
274
275Or:
276	./evb-rk3036/tools/mkimage -n rk3036 -T rksd -d \
277		evb-rk3036/spl/u-boot-spl.bin:evb-rk3036/u-boot-dtb.bin out && \
278	sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
279
280Note: rk3036 SDMMC and debug uart use the same iomux, so if you boot from SD, the
281      debug uart must be disabled
282
283
284Booting from an SD card on RK3288 with TPL
285==========================================
286
287Since the size of SPL can't be exceeded 0x8000 bytes in RK3288, it is not possible add
288new SPL features like Falcon mode or etc.
289
290So introduce TPL so-that adding new features to SPL is possible because now TPL should
291run minimal with code like DDR, clock etc and rest of new features in SPL.
292
293As of now TPL is added on Vyasa-RK3288 board.
294
295To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/mmcblk0):
296
297    sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64 &&
298    sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384
299
300Booting from an SD card on RK3188
301=================================
302
303For rk3188 boards the general storage onto the card stays the same as
304described above, but the image creation needs a bit more care.
305
306The bootrom of rk3188 expects to find a small 1kb loader which returns
307control to the bootrom, after which it will load the real loader, which
308can then be up to 29kb in size and does the regular ddr init.  This is
309handled by a single image (built as the SPL stage) that tests whether
310it is handled for the first or second time via code executed from the
311boot0-hook.
312
313Additionally the rk3188 requires everything the bootrom loads to be
314rc4-encrypted. Except for the very first stage the bootrom always reads
315and decodes 2kb pages, so files should be sized accordingly.
316
317# copy tpl, pad to 1020 bytes and append spl
318tools/mkimage -n rk3188 -T rksd -d spl/u-boot-spl.bin out
319
320# truncate, encode and append u-boot.bin
321truncate -s %2048 u-boot.bin
322cat u-boot.bin | split -b 512 --filter='openssl rc4 -K 7C4E0304550509072D2C7B38170D1711' >> out
323
324Booting from an SD card on Pine64 Rock64 (RK3328)
325=================================================
326
327For Rock64 rk3328 board the following three parts are required:
328TPL, SPL, and the u-boot image tree blob.
329
330  - Write TPL/SPL image at 64 sector
331
332    => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64
333
334  - Write u-boot image tree blob at 16384 sector
335
336    => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384
337
338Booting from an SD card on RK3399
339=================================
340
341To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/sdc):
342
343Option 1: Package the image with Rockchip miniloader:
344
345  - Create idbloader.img
346
347    => cd /path/to/u-boot
348    => ./tools/mkimage  -n rk3399 -T rksd -d /path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3399_ddr_800MHz_v1.20.bin idbloader.img
349    => cat /path/to/rkbin/bin/rk33/rk3399_miniloader_v1.19.bin >> idbloader.img
350
351  - Write idbloader.img at 64 sector
352
353    => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdc seek=64
354
355  - Write trust.img at 24576
356
357    => sudo dd if=trust.img of=/dev/sdc seek=24576
358
359  - Write uboot.img at 16384 sector
360
361    => sudo dd if=uboot.img of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
362    => sync
363
364Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
365something like:
366
367DDR Version 1.20 20190314
368In
369Channel 0: DDR3, 933MHz
370Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=1024MB
371no stride
372ch 0 ddrconfig = 0x101, ddrsize = 0x20
373pmugrf_os_reg[2] = 0x10006281, stride = 0x17
374OUT
375Boot1: 2019-03-14, version: 1.19
376CPUId = 0x0
377ChipType = 0x10, 239
378mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
379mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
380emmc reinit
381mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
382mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
383emmc reinit
384mmc: ERROR: SDHCI ERR:cmd:0x102,stat:0x18000
385mmc: ERROR: Card did not respond to voltage select!
386SdmmcInit=2 1
387mmc0:cmd5,20
388SdmmcInit=0 0
389BootCapSize=0
390UserCapSize=60543MB
391FwPartOffset=2000 , 0
392StorageInit ok = 45266
393SecureMode = 0
394SecureInit read PBA: 0x4
395SecureInit read PBA: 0x404
396SecureInit read PBA: 0x804
397SecureInit read PBA: 0xc04
398SecureInit read PBA: 0x1004
399SecureInit read PBA: 0x1404
400SecureInit read PBA: 0x1804
401SecureInit read PBA: 0x1c04
402SecureInit ret = 0, SecureMode = 0
403atags_set_bootdev: ret:(0)
404GPT 0x3380ec0 signature is wrong
405recovery gpt...
406GPT 0x3380ec0 signature is wrong
407recovery gpt fail!
408LoadTrust Addr:0x4000
409No find bl30.bin
410Load uboot, ReadLba = 2000
411hdr 0000000003380880 + 0x0:0x88,0x41,0x3e,0x97,0xe6,0x61,0x54,0x23,0xe9,0x5a,0xd1,0x2b,0xdc,0x2f,0xf9,0x35,
412
413Load OK, addr=0x200000, size=0x9c9c0
414RunBL31 0x10000
415NOTICE:  BL31: v1.3(debug):370ab80
416NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 09:23:41, Mar  4 2019
417NOTICE:  BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1
418INFO:    GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3
419INFO:    Using opteed sec cpu_context!
420INFO:    boot cpu mask: 0
421INFO:    plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1181): pd status 3e
422INFO:    BL31: Initializing runtime services
423INFO:    BL31: Initializing BL32
424INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:337: Initializing (1.1.0-195-g8f090d20 #6 Fri Dec  7 06:11:20 UTC 2018 aarch64)
425
426INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:338: Release version: 1.2
427
428INF [0x0] TEE-CORE:init_teecore:83: teecore inits done
429INFO:    BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
430INFO:    Entry point address = 0x200000
431INFO:    SPSR = 0x3c9
432
433
434U-Boot 2019.04-rc4-00136-gfd121f9641-dirty (Apr 16 2019 - 14:02:47 +0530)
435
436Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO4
437DRAM:  1022 MiB
438MMC:   dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
439Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
440
441In:    serial@ff1a0000
442Out:   serial@ff1a0000
443Err:   serial@ff1a0000
444Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO4
445Net:   eth0: ethernet@fe300000
446Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
447=>
448
449Option 2: Package the image with SPL:
450
451  - Prefix rk3399 header to SPL image
452
453    => cd /path/to/u-boot
454    => ./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rksd -d spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin out
455
456  - Write prefixed SPL at 64th sector
457
458    => sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sdc seek=64
459
460  - Write U-Boot proper at 16384 sector
461
462    => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
463    => sync
464
465Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
466something like:
467
468U-Boot SPL board init
469Trying to boot from MMC1
470
471
472U-Boot 2019.01-00004-g14db5ee998 (Mar 11 2019 - 13:18:41 +0530)
473
474Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
475DRAM:  2 GiB
476MMC:   dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
477Loading Environment from MMC... OK
478In:    serial@ff1a0000
479Out:   serial@ff1a0000
480Err:   serial@ff1a0000
481Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
482Net:   eth0: ethernet@fe300000
483Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
484=>
485
486Option 3: Package the image with TPL:
487
488  - Write tpl+spl at 64th sector
489
490    => sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdc seek=64
491
492  - Write U-Boot proper at 16384 sector
493
494    => sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdc seek=16384
495    => sync
496
497Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see
498something like:
499
500U-Boot TPL board init
501Trying to boot from BOOTROM
502Returning to boot ROM...
503
504U-Boot SPL board init
505Trying to boot from MMC1
506
507
508U-Boot 2019.07-rc1-00241-g5b3244767a (May 08 2019 - 10:51:06 +0530)
509
510Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
511DRAM:  2 GiB
512MMC:   dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
513Loading Environment from MMC... OK
514In:    serial@ff1a0000
515Out:   serial@ff1a0000
516Err:   serial@ff1a0000
517Model: Orange Pi RK3399 Board
518Net:   eth0: ethernet@fe300000
519Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
520=>
521
522Using fastboot on rk3288
523========================
524- Write GPT partition layout to mmc device which fastboot want to use it to
525store the image
526
527        => gpt write mmc 1 $partitions
528
529- Invoke fastboot command to prepare
530
531        => fastboot 1
532
533- Start fastboot request on PC
534
535        fastboot -i 0x2207 flash loader evb-rk3288/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin
536
537You should see something like:
538
539        => fastboot 1
540        WARNING: unknown variable: partition-type:loader
541        Starting download of 357796 bytes
542        ..
543        downloading of 357796 bytes finished
544        Flashing Raw Image
545        ........ wrote 357888 bytes to 'loader'
546
547Booting from SPI
548================
549
550To write an image that boots from SPI flash (e.g. for the Haier Chromebook or
551Bob):
552
553   ./chromebook_jerry/tools/mkimage -n rk3288 -T rkspi \
554	-d chromebook_jerry/spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin spl.bin && \
555   dd if=spl.bin of=spl-out.bin bs=128K conv=sync && \
556   cat spl-out.bin chromebook_jerry/u-boot-dtb.img >out.bin && \
557   dd if=out.bin of=out.bin.pad bs=4M conv=sync
558
559This converts the SPL image to the required SPI format by adding the Rockchip
560header and skipping every second 2KB block. Then the U-Boot image is written at
561offset 128KB and the whole image is padded to 4MB which is the SPI flash size.
562The position of U-Boot is controlled with this setting in U-Boot:
563
564   #define CONFIG_SYS_SPI_U_BOOT_OFFS	0x20000
565
566If you have a Dediprog em100pro connected then you can write the image with:
567
568      sudo em100 -s -c GD25LQ32 -d out.bin.pad -r
569
570When booting you should see something like:
571
572   U-Boot SPL 2015.07-rc2-00215-g9a58220-dirty (Jun 23 2015 - 12:11:32)
573
574
575   U-Boot 2015.07-rc2-00215-g9a58220-dirty (Jun 23 2015 - 12:11:32 -0600)
576
577   Model: Google Jerry
578   DRAM:  2 GiB
579   MMC:
580   Using default environment
581
582   In:    serial@ff690000
583   Out:   serial@ff690000
584   Err:   serial@ff690000
585   =>
586
587Future work
588===========
589
590Immediate priorities are:
591
592- USB host
593- USB device
594- Run CPU at full speed (code exists but we only see ~60 DMIPS maximum)
595- NAND flash
596- Boot U-Boot proper over USB OTG (at present only SPL works)
597
598
599Development Notes
600=================
601
602There are plenty of patches in the links below to help with this work.
603
604[1] https://github.com/rkchrome/uboot.git
605[2] https://github.com/linux-rockchip/u-boot-rockchip.git branch u-boot-rk3288
606[3] https://github.com/linux-rockchip/rkflashtool.git
607[4] http://wiki.t-firefly.com/index.php/Firefly-RK3288/Serial_debug/en
608
609rkimage
610-------
611
612rkimage.c produces an SPL image suitable for sending directly to the boot ROM
613over USB OTG. This is a very simple format - just the string RK32 (as 4 bytes)
614followed by u-boot-spl-dtb.bin.
615
616The boot ROM loads image to 0xff704000 which is in the internal SRAM. The SRAM
617starts at 0xff700000 and extends to 0xff718000 where we put the stack.
618
619rksd
620----
621
622rksd.c produces an image consisting of 32KB of empty space, a header and
623u-boot-spl-dtb.bin. The header is defined by 'struct header0_info' although
624most of the fields are unused by U-Boot. We just need to specify the
625signature, a flag and the block offset and size of the SPL image.
626
627The header occupies a single block but we pad it out to 4 blocks. The header
628is encoding using RC4 with the key 7c4e0304550509072d2c7b38170d1711. The SPL
629image can be encoded too but we don't do that.
630
631The maximum size of u-boot-spl-dtb.bin which the boot ROM will read is 32KB,
632or 0x40 blocks. This is a severe and annoying limitation. There may be a way
633around this limitation, since there is plenty of SRAM, but at present the
634board refuses to boot if this limit is exceeded.
635
636The image produced is padded up to a block boundary (512 bytes). It should be
637written to the start of an SD card using dd.
638
639Since this image is set to load U-Boot from the SD card at block offset,
640CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR, dd should be used to write
641u-boot-dtb.img to the SD card at that offset. See above for instructions.
642
643rkspi
644-----
645
646rkspi.c produces an image consisting of a header and u-boot-spl-dtb.bin. The
647resulting image is then spread out so that only the first 2KB of each 4KB
648sector is used. The header is the same as with rksd and the maximum size is
649also 32KB (before spreading). The image should be written to the start of
650SPI flash.
651
652See above for instructions on how to write a SPI image.
653
654rkmux.py
655--------
656
657You can use this script to create #defines for SoC register access. See the
658script for usage.
659
660
661Device tree and driver model
662----------------------------
663
664Where possible driver model is used to provide a structure to the
665functionality. Device tree is used for configuration. However these have an
666overhead and in SPL with a 32KB size limit some shortcuts have been taken.
667In general all Rockchip drivers should use these features, with SPL-specific
668modifications where required.
669
670GPT partition layout
671----------------------------
672
673Rockchip use a unified GPT partition layout  in open source support.
674With this GPT partition layout, uboot can be compatilbe with other components,
675like miniloader, trusted-os, arm-trust-firmware.
676
677There are some documents about partitions in the links below.
678http://rockchip.wikidot.com/partitions
679
680--
681Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
68227 Mar 2019
683Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
68424 June 2015
685