On 3/8/23 21:26, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
Collect the list of currerently
Typo, curr... .
supported Renesas boards. For the RZ/N1 board, add details about booting and flashing.
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+Renesas boards +-------------- + +Renesas is a SoC solutions provider for industrial applications.
Automotive too.
+U-boot supports several Renesas SoC families:
U-Boot .
+* rcar gen1/gen2 (32-bit)
R-Car Gen2 (they are all Gen2 as far as I can tell)
+ - Blanche board + - Gose board + - Koelsch board + - Lager board + - Silk board + - Porter board + - Stout board +* rcar gen3 (64-bit)
R-Car Gen3
+ - Condor board + - Draak board + - Eagle board + - Ebisu board + - Falcon board
This one is in fact R-Car Gen4, as is Spider and Whitehawk (which are missing here)
+ - Salvator-x board
Salvator-X and Salvator-XS boards
+ - Ulcb board
ULCB (that's an abbreviation) .
+ - Beacon-rzg2 board + - Hihope-rzg2 board + - ek874 board
Those three are RZ/G
+* rza1 (32-bit)
RZ/A1
+ - GR-PEACH board +* rzn1 (32-bit)
RZ/N1
+ - Schneider rzn1-snarc board + +Building +-------- + +NOTE: the following information is for the rzn1 board only.
Maybe this should be in a separate document , some rzn1 specific .rst file ?
+U-Boot +^^^^^^ + +Clone the u-boot repository and build it as follows: + +.. code-block:: bash + + git clone --depth 1 https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git + cd u-boot + make rzn1_snarc_defconfig + make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- + +This produces `u-boot` which is an ELF executable, suitable for use with `gdb` +and JTAG debugging tools. + +It also produceds `u-boot.bin` which is a raw binary. + +SPKG image +^^^^^^^^^^ + +The BootROM in the RZ/N1 SoC expects to find the boot image in SPKG format. +This format is documented in Chapter 7.4 of the RZ/N1 User Manual. + +The raw u-boot binary can be wrapped into SPKG format as follows: + +.. code-block:: bash + + tools/mkimage -n board/schneider/rzn1-snarc/spkgimage.cfg \ + -T spkgimage -a 0x20040000 -e 0x20040000 \ + -d u-boot.bin u-boot.bin.spkg
Shouldn't binman do this for you ? That should be the primary option.
+This produces `u-boot.bin.spkg` which can be flashed into QSPI, NAND, or loaded +via USB-DFU mode. + +Take note of the load and execution address, which are encoded into the SPKG +headers. For development convenience, mkimage computes the execution offset +(part of the SPKG header) by subtracting the supplied load address from the +supplied execution address. + +Also note there are other parameters, notably ECC configuration in the case of +boot from NAND, specified in the `spkgimage.cfg` configuration file. + +Binman +^^^^^^ + +Alternatively `binman` may be used to generate the SPKG format for booting. +This tool and its pre-requisites must be installed as per +:doc:`../../../tools/binman/binman.rst`` + +.. code-block:: bash + + binman -d arch/arm/dts/r9a06g032-rzn1-snarc.dtb -o <OUT> + +This will produce `u-boot.bin.spkg` in the specified <OUT> directory. + +Flashing +-------- + +The RZ/N1 is able to boot from QSPI, NAND, or via USB (DFU). In all cases the +on-board BootROM expects for the binary to be wrapped with a "SPKG" header. +This format is detailed in the RZ/N1 User Manual, and can be produced using +the u-boot `mkimage` utility. + +It is possible to recover a bricked unit by using the USB (DFU) boot mode. This +allows uploading u-boot into the internal RAM. Thereafter u-boot can be used to +program the QSPI and/or NAND, making use of u-boot dfu mode. + +Otherwise the only other option for recovery is via JTAG.
