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authorSamuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>2020-10-21 21:12:16 -0500
committerJagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>2020-10-22 11:43:43 +0530
commite72a6be4fc071930016903638e1e493ab5d3be8a (patch)
treee9f81dae2d026188ec7edc378dfe2219abf9c868 /board
parent18bd45592cbd87a766450d08169ec574853b50fa (diff)
sunxi: binman: Add support for including SCP firmware
Allwinner sun50i SoCs contain an OpenRISC 1000 CPU that functions as a System Control Processor, or SCP. ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) communicates with the SCP over SCPI to implement the PSCI system suspend, shutdown and reset functionality. Currently, SCP firmware is optional; the system will boot and run without it, but system suspend will be unavailable. Since all communication with the SCP is mediated by ATF, the only thing U-Boot needs to do is load the firmware into SRAM. The SCP firmware occupies the last 16KiB of SRAM A2, immediately following ATF. Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
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-rw-r--r--board/sunxi/README.sunxi6447
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diff --git a/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64 b/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
index 258921af22..4803bc9ff2 100644
--- a/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
+++ b/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
@@ -14,8 +14,12 @@ Quick Start / Overview
- Build the ARM Trusted Firmware binary (see "ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF)" below)
$ cd /src/arm-trusted-firmware
$ make PLAT=sun50i_a64 DEBUG=1 bl31
+- Build the SCP firmware binary (see "SCP firmware (Crust)" below)
+ $ cd /src/crust
+ $ make pine64_plus_defconfig && make -j5 scp
- Build U-Boot (see "SPL/U-Boot" below)
$ export BL31=/path/to/bl31.bin
+ $ export SCP=/src/crust/build/scp/scp.bin
$ make pine64_plus_defconfig && make -j5
- Transfer to an uSD card (see "microSD card" below)
$ dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdx bs=8k seek=1
@@ -24,13 +28,17 @@ Quick Start / Overview
Building the firmware
=====================
-The Allwinner A64/H5 firmware consists of three parts: U-Boot's SPL, an
-ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) build and the U-Boot proper.
-The SPL will load both ATF and U-Boot proper along with the right device
-tree blob (.dtb) and will pass execution to ATF (in EL3), which in turn will
-drop into the U-Boot proper (in EL2).
-As the ATF binary will become part of the U-Boot image file, you will need
-to build it first.
+The Allwinner A64/H5/H6 firmware consists of several parts: U-Boot's SPL,
+ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF), optional System Control Processor (SCP) firmware
+(e.g. Crust), and the U-Boot proper.
+
+The SPL will load all of the other firmware binaries into RAM, along with the
+right device tree blob (.dtb), and will pass execution to ATF (in EL3). If SCP
+firmware was loaded, ATF will power on the SCP and wait for it to boot.
+ATF will then drop into U-Boot proper (in EL2).
+
+As the ATF binary and SCP firmware will become part of the U-Boot image file,
+you will need to build them first.
ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF)
----------------------------
@@ -53,6 +61,31 @@ As sometimes the ATF build process is a bit picky about the toolchain used,
or if you can't be bothered with building ATF, there are known working
binaries in the firmware repository[3], purely for convenience reasons.
+ SCP firmware (Crust)
+----------------------
+SCP firmware is responsible for implementing system suspend/resume, and (on
+boards without a PMIC) soft poweroff/on. ATF contains fallback code for CPU
+power control, so SCP firmware is optional if you don't need either of these
+features. It runs on the AR100, with is an or1k CPU, not ARM, so it needs a
+different cross toolchain.
+
+There is one SCP firmware implementation currently available, Crust:
+$ git clone https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust
+$ cd crust
+$ export CROSS_COMPILE=or1k-linux-musl-
+$ make pine64_plus_defconfig
+$ make scp
+
+The same configuration generally works on any board with the same SoC (A64, H5,
+or H6), so if there is no config for your board, use one for a similar board.
+
+Like for ATF, U-Boot finds the SCP firmware binary via an environment variable:
+$ export SCP=/src/crust/build/scp/scp.bin
+
+If you do not want to use SCP firmware, you can silence the warning from binman
+by pointing it to an empty file:
+$ export SCP=/dev/null
+
SPL/U-Boot
------------
Both U-Boot proper and the SPL are using the 64-bit mode. As the boot ROM