Hi Jonas,

On 2023/2/6 20:51, Jonas Karlman wrote:
Hi Quentin,
On 2023-02-06 12:26, Quentin Schulz wrote:
Hi Jonas,

On 2/5/23 21:21, Jonas Karlman wrote:
Rockchip SoCs typically use U-Boot TPL to initialize DRAM, then jumps
back to boot-rom to load the next stage of the boot flow, U-Boot SPL.

For RK356x there is currently no support to initialize DRAM using U-Boot
TPL and instead an external TPL binary must be used to generate a
working u-boot-rockchip.bin image.

Use the new external-tpl entry unless CONFIG_TPL=y to indicate that an
external TPL binary must be provided to generate a working firmware.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jo...@kwiboo.se>
---
   Makefile                          |  1 +
   arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi | 16 ++++++++++++----
   tools/binman/missing-blob-help    |  5 +++++
   3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7eaf45496c1c..7e9272be937f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1332,6 +1332,7 @@ cmd_binman = $(srctree)/tools/binman/binman $(if 
$(BINMAN_DEBUG),-D) \
                -a opensbi-path=${OPENSBI} \
                -a default-dt=$(default_dt) \
                -a scp-path=$(SCP) \
+               -a external-tpl-path=$(EXTERNAL_TPL) \
                -a spl-bss-pad=$(if $(CONFIG_SPL_SEPARATE_BSS),,1) \
                -a tpl-bss-pad=$(if $(CONFIG_TPL_SEPARATE_BSS),,1) \
                -a spl-dtb=$(CONFIG_SPL_OF_REAL) \
diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi 
b/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
index 6c662a72d4f9..bc3bc9bc3e37 100644
--- a/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi
@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@
                mkimage {
                        filename = "idbloader.img";
                        args = "-n", CONFIG_SYS_SOC, "-T", "rksd";
-#ifdef CONFIG_TPL
                        multiple-data-files;
+#ifdef CONFIG_TPL
                        u-boot-tpl {
-                       };
+#else
+                       external-tpl {
+                               filename = "ddr.bin";
+                               missing-msg = "external-tpl-rockchip";
   #endif
+                       };
NACK. This forces the use of a TPL (either built by U-Boot or external)
which is not always the case. There are still boards without a TPL which
work perfectly fine (at least I would hope so :) ).

Basically there are three possible cases:
SPL
TPL+SPL
TPL(external blob)+SPL

Here you remove the ability to have SPL only.

Hence why I suggested we add a new Kconfig option for EXTERNAL_TPL, not
for the path but to explicit this third possibility.
Thanks for the feedback, I will add a Kconfig option to make this explicit.
We could also add the optional prop in the external-tpl node to only include
the external TPL when it is provided. This will require also fixing the
missing/optional handling for the mkimage entry.

Could you help to send the new patchset with this update?


Thanks,

- Kever

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