bmips: Build U-Boot into the XG6846 target

It appears that the CFE boot loader found in the XG6846
cannot load kernels over a certain size, and the old
relocate hack is not working.

What to do? We can build a small U-Boot into the image,
make CFE boot that, place the kernel immediately after
U-Boot, and use U-Boot to boot the system instead.

The compiled u-boot.bin becomes around ~300KB and with
LZMA compression it will swiftly fit into 128KB, so
we use two 64KB erase blocks right after the CFE to
store an imagetag:ed U-Boot.

Reviewed-by: Paul Donald <newtwen+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

diff --git a/target/linux/bmips/dts/bcm6328-inteno-xg6846.dts b/target/linux/bmips/dts/bcm6328-inteno-xg6846.dts
index ee9d19839ccd2b788605a4cff022fcf6e9eedc8b..72f85a53ca7c74ce892d083e1680d71de16192e5 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/bmips/dts/bcm6328-inteno-xg6846.dts
+++ b/target/linux/bmips/dts/bcm6328-inteno-xg6846.dts
@@ -117,9 +117,10 @@
                        };
 
                        partition@10000 {
-                               compatible = "brcm,bcm963xx-imagetag";
+                               compatible = "openwrt,uimage", "denx,uimage";
                                reg = <0x010000 0xfe0000>;
                                label = "firmware";
+                               openwrt,offset = <0x30000>;
                        };
 
                        partition@ff0000 {

diff --git a/target/linux/bmips/image/Makefile b/target/linux/bmips/image/Makefile
index 9311e2df096fc0b0dbd8f5d3408a2d65df57c4e6..b79974931d48ce2689c9d968dd7f31b254c66637 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/bmips/image/Makefile
+++ b/target/linux/bmips/image/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/image.mk
 
 KERNEL_LOADADDR := 0x80010000          # RAM start + 64K
+UBOOT_ENTRY := 0x81c00000
 LOADER_ENTRY := 0x81000000             # RAM start + 16M, for relocate
 LZMA_TEXT_START := 0x82000000          # RAM start + 32M
 
@@ -94,6 +95,21 @@ define Build/cfe-bin
                $(CFE_EXTRAS) $(1)
 endef
 
+# Build a CFE image with just U-Boot
+define Build/cfe-bin-uboot
+       cp $(STAGING_DIR_IMAGE)/$(DEVICE_NAME)-u-boot.bin $@
+       $(call Build/lzma)
+       mv $@ $@.uboot.lzma
+       echo "dummy" > $@.dummyfs
+       $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/imagetag -i $@.uboot.lzma -f $@.dummyfs \
+               --output $@ --boardid $(CFE_BOARD_ID) --chipid $(CHIP_ID) \
+               --entry $(UBOOT_ENTRY) --load-addr $(UBOOT_ENTRY) \
+               --info1 "$(call ModelNameLimit16,$(DEVICE_NAME))" \
+               $(CFE_EXTRAS) $(1)
+       rm $@.uboot.lzma
+       rm $@.dummyfs
+endef
+
 define Build/cfe-jffs2
        $(STAGING_DIR_HOST)/bin/mkfs.jffs2 \
                --big-endian \
@@ -284,6 +300,21 @@ define Device/bcm63xx-cfe-legacy
   KERNEL := kernel-bin | append-dtb | relocate-kernel | lzma-cfe
 endef
 
+# CFE images with U-Boot in front of the kernel, these will execute
+# U-Boot instead of the kernel and U-Boot will then proceed to load
+# the kernel. The reason to do this is that CFE is sometimes unable to
+# load big kernels even with the lzma loader tricks.
+define Device/bcm63xx-cfe-uboot
+  $(Device/bcm63xx-cfe)
+  KERNEL := kernel-bin | append-dtb | lzma | uImage lzma
+  IMAGE/cfe.bin := cfe-bin-uboot | pad-to $$$$$$$$(($$(BLOCKSIZE))) | \
+    append-kernel | pad-to $$$$$$$$(($$(BLOCKSIZE))) | \
+    append-rootfs $$$$(if $$$$(FLASH_MB),--pad $$$$(shell expr $$$$(FLASH_MB) / 2))
+  IMAGE/sysupgrade.bin := cfe-bin-uboot | pad-to $$$$$$$$(($$(BLOCKSIZE))) | \
+    append-kernel | pad-to $$$$$$$$(($$(BLOCKSIZE))) | \
+    append-rootfs | append-metadata
+endef
+
 # CFE expects a single JFFS2 partition with cferam and kernel. However,
 # it's possible to fool CFE into properly loading both cferam and kernel
 # from two different JFFS2 partitions by adding dummy files (see

diff --git a/target/linux/bmips/image/bcm6328.mk b/target/linux/bmips/image/bcm6328.mk
index 0e249fa96e45dbd0b506c64a3637882dab9db643..b85b6ac7a88f6263b544a0ffa5f5b3ba28a723ac 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/bmips/image/bcm6328.mk
+++ b/target/linux/bmips/image/bcm6328.mk
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ endef
 TARGET_DEVICES += innacomm_w3400v6
 
 define Device/inteno_xg6846
-  $(Device/bcm63xx-cfe-legacy)
+  $(Device/bcm63xx-cfe-uboot)
   DEVICE_VENDOR := Inteno
   DEVICE_MODEL := XG6846
   CHIP_ID := 6328