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Re: [PATCH v3 10/17] hw/arm/allwinner-h3: add Boot ROM support


From: Niek Linnenbank
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/17] hw/arm/allwinner-h3: add Boot ROM support
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:10:27 +0100



On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:28 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
On 1/8/20 9:00 PM, Niek Linnenbank wrote:
> A real Allwinner H3 SoC contains a Boot ROM which is the
> first code that runs right after the SoC is powered on.
> The Boot ROM is responsible for loading user code (e.g. a bootloader)
> from any of the supported external devices and writing the downloaded
> code to internal SRAM. After loading the SoC begins executing the code
> written to SRAM. This commits adds emulation of the Boot ROM firmware
> setup functionality by loading user code from SD card.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niek Linnenbank <address@hidden>
> ---
>   include/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c         | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hw/arm/orangepi.c             |  3 +++
>   3 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h b/include/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h
> index 5d74cca28e..4b66227ac4 100644
> --- a/include/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h
> +++ b/include/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
>   #include "hw/sd/allwinner-sdhost.h"
>   #include "hw/net/allwinner-sun8i-emac.h"
>   #include "target/arm/cpu.h"
> +#include "sysemu/block-backend.h"
>   
>   /**
>    * Allwinner H3 device list
> @@ -130,4 +131,26 @@ typedef struct AwH3State {
>       MemoryRegion sram_c;
>   } AwH3State;
>   
> +/**
> + * Emulate Boot ROM firmware setup functionality.
> + *
> + * A real Allwinner H3 SoC contains a Boot ROM
> + * which is the first code that runs right after
> + * the SoC is powered on. The Boot ROM is responsible
> + * for loading user code (e.g. a bootloader) from any
> + * of the supported external devices and writing the
> + * downloaded code to internal SRAM. After loading the SoC
> + * begins executing the code written to SRAM.
> + *
> + * This function emulates the Boot ROM by copying 32 KiB
> + * of data from the given block device and writes it to
> + * the start of the first internal SRAM memory.
> + *
> + * @s: Allwinner H3 state object pointer
> + * @blk: Block backend device object pointer
> + * @errp: Error object pointer for raising errors
> + */
> +void allwinner_h3_bootrom_setup(AwH3State *s, BlockBackend *blk,
> +                                Error **errp);
> +
>   #endif /* HW_ARM_ALLWINNER_H3_H */
> diff --git a/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c b/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
> index e692432b4e..e7b768ad5b 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/allwinner-h3.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>   #include "hw/char/serial.h"
>   #include "hw/misc/unimp.h"
>   #include "hw/usb/hcd-ehci.h"
> +#include "hw/loader.h"
>   #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
>   #include "hw/arm/allwinner-h3.h"
>   
> @@ -168,6 +169,33 @@ enum {
>       AW_H3_GIC_NUM_SPI       = 128
>   };
>   
> +void allwinner_h3_bootrom_setup(AwH3State *s, BlockBackend *blk, Error **errp)
> +{
> +    uint8_t *buffer;
> +    int64_t rom_size = 32 * KiB;

Why restrict to 32K? The A1 SRAM is 64K.

The reason is that the actual Boot ROM on the H3 also uses 32K:
    https://linux-sunxi.org/BROM

See the 'U-Boot SPL Limitations' table at the end of the page.

You can see the comment in the table there regarding the 32 KiB:
  "Sizes larger than 32 KiB are rejected by the BROM. Exactly 32 KiB is fine, as verified by writing a special pattern at the end of the SPL and checking it in the SRAM."
 
Probably it would not harm to increase it to the full size of the SRAM, but I tried to model
the behavior as close to the real hardware as possible.

Regards,
Niek


> +
> +    int64_t blk_size = blk_getlength(blk);
> +    if (blk_size <= 0) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "%s: failed to get BlockBackend size", __func__);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (rom_size > blk_size) {
> +        rom_size = blk_size;
> +    }
> +
> +    buffer = g_new0(uint8_t, rom_size);
> +    if (blk_pread(blk, 8 * KiB, buffer, rom_size) < 0) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "%s: failed to read BlockBackend data", __func__);
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    rom_add_blob("allwinner-h3.bootrom", buffer, rom_size,
> +                  rom_size, s->memmap[AW_H3_SRAM_A1],
> +                  NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, false);
> +    g_free(buffer);
> +}
> +
>   static void allwinner_h3_init(Object *obj)
>   {
>       AwH3State *s = AW_H3(obj);
> diff --git a/hw/arm/orangepi.c b/hw/arm/orangepi.c
> index 0eb52eb813..b722f49485 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/orangepi.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/orangepi.c
> @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ static void orangepi_init(MachineState *machine)
>       if (bios_name) {
>           error_report("BIOS not supported for this machine");
>           exit(1);
> +    } else if (!machine->kernel_filename && blk_is_available(blk)) {
> +        /* Use Boot ROM to copy data from SD card to SRAM */
> +        allwinner_h3_bootrom_setup(s->h3, blk, &error_fatal);
>       }
>       orangepi_binfo.loader_start = s->h3->memmap[AW_H3_SDRAM];
>       orangepi_binfo.ram_size = machine->ram_size;
>



--
Niek Linnenbank


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