Re: [PATCH v3] arm64: dts: marvell: add Globalscale MOCHAbin

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 5:48 PM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 23 September 2021 20:18:30 Robert Marko wrote:
> > +/* SPI-NOR */
> > +&cp0_spi1{
> > +     status = "okay";
> > +
> > +     pinctrl-names = "default";
> > +     pinctrl-0 = <&cp0_spi1_pins>;
> > +
> > +     spi-flash@0 {
> > +             #address-cells = <1>;
> > +             #size-cells = <1>;
> > +             compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
> > +             reg = <0>;
> > +             spi-max-frequency = <20000000>;
> > +
> > +             partitions {
> > +                     compatible = "fixed-partitions";
> > +                     #address-cells = <1>;
> > +                     #size-cells = <1>;
> > +
> > +                     partition@0 {
> > +                             label = "u-boot";
> > +                             reg = <0x0 0x3e0000>;
>
> For sure U-Boot cannot start at offset zero as this is 64-bit ARM board
> which uses at least TF-A firmware, which loads U-Boot.
>
> Also on these mvebu SoCs is executed prior TF-A firmware custom Marvell
> initialization code responsible for DDR training.
>
> So on offset zero you cannot flash U-Boot, otherwise board would not be
> bootable.
>
> So I would suggest to either define correct offset at which U-Boot
> starts or rename this whole partition to something generic, e.g. with
> label "firmware". To not expose that on zero offset is stored U-Boot.
>
> Due to how big is this partition I guess it contains concatenation of
> various firmware and bootloader parts.

You are correct, its the mv-ddr + TF-A + U-boot in that partition, its just a
matter of habit calling it "u-boot".
I will rename to "firmware" which is much more appropriate.

Regards,
Robert
>
> > +                             read-only;
> > +                     };
> > +
> > +                     partition@3e0000 {
> > +                             label = "hw-info";
> > +                             reg = <0x3e0000 0x10000>;
> > +                             read-only;
> > +                     };
> > +
> > +                     partition@3f0000 {
> > +                             label = "u-boot-env";
> > +                             reg = <0x3f0000 0x10000>;
> > +                     };
> > +             };
> > +     };
> > +};



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