Re: OCOTP and DWMAC builtin modules are needed for imx93-11x11-evk kernel dev via TFTP and NFS

[Alberto Merciai]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 07:12:55PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 17/03/2025 19:03, Alberto Merciai wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 17/03/2025 09:47, Alberto Merciai wrote:
> >>> While playing with linux-next and imx93-11x11-evk via NFS and TFTP
> >>> I found that the dwmac-imx, nvmem-imx-ocotp-ele drivers by default are
> >>> not builtin then the I was not able to reach userland. 
> >>>
> >>> The following configs were needed to reach my goal:
> >>> CONFIG_DWMAC_IMX8=y
> >>> CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH=y
> >>> CONFIG_NVMEM_IMX_OCOTP_ELE=y
> >>>
> >>> is that something expected?
> >>
> >> You mean they are disabled or you just did not put them inside your
> >> initramfs?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Krzysztof
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > By default they are enabled as external modules, then until we don't
> 
> So everything is as expected...
> 
> > reach userland they are not loaded thus eth and all the mechanism behind
> > that are out.
> > 
> > I'm not using initramfs just tftp and NFS as follows:
> 
> All arm64 platforms are supposed to use initramfs on defconfig with
> necessary modules.
Thanks a lot, I was not aware of that.
Do you have any reference?

> > setenv loaddtb "tftp 0x80400000 imx93-11x11-evk.dtb"
> > setenv loadkernel "tftp 0x83000000 Image"
> > setenv netargs "setenv bootargs console=ttyLP0,115200 root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.1.3:/tftp/root,v3,tcp"
> > setenv bootcmd "run loaddtb; run loadkernel; run netargs; booti 0x83000000 - 0x80400000;"
> > 
> > Do you think that initramfs can solve that?
> 
> Yes, that's the entire point of initramfs.
Let's proceed in that way :)

> > 
> > To be honest I was expecting to have a builtin driver for eth by
> 
> No, why? We built as much as possible as modules in defconfig. Otherwise
> it would be impossible to actually boot that image because several arm64
> platforms have limitations of boot partition size.
Cool! Now is clear.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Thanks,
Alberto