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AM3358: U-boot device tree issue

Part Number: AM3358

I'm in the processing of bringing up a custom-design board based very closely around the beaglebone / am335x-evm reference design. 

As such, I was hoping the configuration would be as simple as: 

1. use the pre-build Processor SDK image (tested on a Beaglebone); 2. insert the custom DTB / device tree file at runtime in a one-line uEnv.txt (fdtfile=custom-board.dtb); 3. boot into Linux from SD card. This is a very limited ambition level at this stage: about as simple as I can make it!

However...

When trying this, it fails into u-boot command line. Upon running printenv in u-boot, however, I see that [ fdtfile=am335x-boneblack.dtb ] is loaded: showing its ignored my uEnv.txt! 

Trying to override this with a setenv then fails at saveenv, giving [ Saving Environment to FAT... Failed (1) ] 

Questions: 

1. any ideas why uboot is ignoring uEnv.txt fdtfile setting?

2. can you advise a better/simple way to apply a custom device tree to u-boot??

3. any ideas why savenv should be failing?

This is a complete standard SDK v6 card image with the exception of the custom-board.dtb and uEnv.txt files in boot partition. EEPROM has been set to beaglebone A6 standard with the exception of board_serial.

mmc data is:

=> mmc info
Device: OMAP SD/MMC
Manufacturer ID: ed
OEM: 10b
Name: SEM08
Bus Speed: 48000000
Mode : MMC High Speed (52MHz)
Rd Block Len: 512
MMC version 5.0
High Capacity: Yes
Capacity: 7.3 GiB
Bus Width: 4-bit
Erase Group Size: 512 KiB
User Capacity: 7.3 GiB WRREL
Boot Capacity: 4 MiB ENH
RPMB Capacity: 4 MiB ENH
=> mmc list
OMAP SD/MMC: 0
OMAP SD/MMC: 1 (eMMC)
=> mmc part
## Unknown partition table type 0
=>

boot messages are: 

U-Boot 2019.01-g8b90adfb16 (Jul 07 2019 - 10:08:45 +0000)

CPU  : AM335X-GP rev 2.1
Model: TI AM335x BeagleBone Black
DRAM:  512 MiB
NAND:  0 MiB
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
Loading Environment from FAT... <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
Net:   eth0: ethernet@4a100000
Warning: usb_ether MAC addresses don't match:
Address in ROM is          de:ad:be:ef:00:01
Address in environment is  98:5d:ad:73:ae:3c
, eth1: usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
** No partition table - mmc 1 **
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
SD/MMC found on device 1
** No partition table - mmc 1 **
** No partition table - mmc 1 **
## Error: "bootcmd_nand0" not defined
starting USB...
USB0:   scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
ethernet@4a100000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete......... TIMEOUT !
using musb-hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:01
HOST MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:00
RNDIS ready
missing environment variable: pxeuuid
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/01-98-5d-ad-73-ae-3a
ethernet@4a100000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete......... TIMEOUT !

Warning: usb_ether MAC addresses don't match:
Address in ROM is          de:ad:be:ef:00:01
Address in environment is  98:5d:ad:73:ae:3c
using musb-hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:01
HOST MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:00
RNDIS ready
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/00000000
ethernet@4a100000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete......... TIMEOUT !

<snip repeat timeouts>


Warning: usb_ether MAC addresses don't match:
Address in ROM is          de:ad:be:ef:00:01
Address in environment is  98:5d:ad:73:ae:3c
using musb-hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:01
HOST MAC de:ad:be:ef:00:00
RNDIS ready
=>

  • uEnv.txt is: 

    fdtfile=custom-board.dtb

    printenv is

    => printenv
    arch=arm
    args_mmc=run finduuid;setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs} root=PARTUUID=${uuid} rw rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype}
    baudrate=115200
    board=am335x
    board_name=A335BNLT
    board_rev=00A6
    board_serial=SAAB Seaeye
    boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr}
    boot_efi_binary=if fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; then bootefi bootmgr ${fdt_addr_r};else bootefi bootmgr ${fdtcontroladdr};fi;load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${kernel_addr_r} efi/boot/bootarm.efi; if fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; then bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r};else bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdtcontroladdr};fi
    boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${boot_syslinux_conf}
    boot_fdt=try
    boot_fit=0
    boot_net_usb_start=usb start
    boot_prefixes=/ /boot/
    boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg
    boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr
    boot_syslinux_conf=extlinux/extlinux.conf
    boot_targets=mmc0 legacy_mmc0 mmc1 legacy_mmc1 nand0 pxe dhcp
    bootcmd=if test ${boot_fit} -eq 1; then run update_to_fit; fi; run findfdt; run init_console; run envboot; run distro_bootcmd
    bootcmd_dhcp=run boot_net_usb_start; if dhcp ${scriptaddr} ${boot_script_dhcp}; then source ${scriptaddr}; fi;setenv efi_fdtfile ${fdtfile}; if test -z "${fdtfile}" -a -n "${soc}"; then setenv efi_fdtfile ${soc}-${board}${boardver}.dtb; fi; setenv efi_old_vci ${bootp_vci};setenv efi_old_arch ${bootp_arch};setenv bootp_vci PXEClient:Arch:00010:UNDI:003000;setenv bootp_arch 0xa;if dhcp ${kernel_addr_r}; then tftpboot ${fdt_addr_r} dtb/${efi_fdtfile};if fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; then bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r}; else bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdtcontroladdr};fi;fi;setenv bootp_vci ${efi_old_vci};setenv bootp_arch ${efi_old_arch};setenv efi_fdtfile;setenv efi_old_arch;setenv efi_old_vci;
    bootcmd_legacy_mmc0=setenv mmcdev 0; setenv bootpart 0:2 ; run mmcboot
    bootcmd_legacy_mmc1=setenv mmcdev 1; setenv bootpart 1:2 ; run mmcboot
    bootcmd_mmc0=setenv devnum 0; run mmc_boot
    bootcmd_mmc1=setenv devnum 1; run mmc_boot
    bootcmd_nand=run nandboot
    bootcmd_pxe=run boot_net_usb_start; dhcp; if pxe get; then pxe boot; fi
    bootcount=1
    bootdelay=2
    bootdir=/boot
    bootenvfile=uEnv.txt
    bootfile=zImage
    bootm_size=0x10000000
    bootpart=1:2
    bootscript=echo Running bootscript from mmc${mmcdev} ...; source ${loadaddr}
    console=ttyO0,115200n8
    cpu=armv7
    devnum=1
    devplist=1
    devtype=mmc
    dfu_alt_info_emmc=rawemmc raw 0 3751936;boot part 1 1;rootfs part 1 2;MLO fat 1 1;MLO.raw raw 0x100 0x200;u-boot.img.raw raw 0x300 0x1000;u-env.raw raw 0x1300 0x200;spl-os-args.raw raw 0x1500 0x200;spl-os-image.raw raw 0x1700 0x6900;spl-os-args fat 1 1;spl-os-image fat 1 1;u-boot.img fat 1 1;uEnv.txt fat 1 1
    dfu_alt_info_mmc=boot part 0 1;rootfs part 0 2;MLO fat 0 1;MLO.raw raw 0x100 0x200;u-boot.img.raw raw 0x300 0x1000;u-env.raw raw 0x1300 0x200;spl-os-args.raw raw 0x1500 0x200;spl-os-image.raw raw 0x1700 0x6900;spl-os-args fat 0 1;spl-os-image fat 0 1;u-boot.img fat 0 1;uEnv.txt fat 0 1
    dfu_alt_info_nand=SPL part 0 1;SPL.backup1 part 0 2;SPL.backup2 part 0 3;SPL.backup3 part 0 4;u-boot part 0 5;u-boot-spl-os part 0 6;kernel part 0 8;rootfs part 0 9
    dfu_alt_info_ram=kernel ram 0x80200000 0x4000000;fdt ram 0x80f80000 0x80000;ramdisk ram 0x81000000 0x4000000
    distro_bootcmd=for target in ${boot_targets}; do run bootcmd_${target}; done
    efi_dtb_prefixes=/ /dtb/ /dtb/current/
    envboot=mmc dev ${mmcdev}; if mmc rescan; then echo SD/MMC found on device ${mmcdev};if run loadbootscript; then run bootscript;else if run loadbootenv; then echo Loaded env from ${bootenvfile};run importbootenv;fi;if test -n $uenvcmd; then echo Running uenvcmd ...;run uenvcmd;fi;fi;fi;
    eth1addr=98:5d:ad:73:ae:3c
    ethact=ethernet@4a100000
    ethaddr=98:5d:ad:73:ae:3a
    fdt_addr_r=0x88000000
    fdtaddr=0x88000000
    fdtcontroladdr=9df3b0d8
    fdtfile=am335x-boneblack.dtb
    findfdt=if test $board_name = A335BONE; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bone.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335BNLT; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblack.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335PBGL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-pocketbeagle.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblack-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBG1; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBGW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblue.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBEN; then setenv fdtfile am335x-sancloud-bbe.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A33515BB; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evm.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335X_SK; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evmsk.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = rmii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = mii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2-prueth.dtb; fi; if test $fdtfile = undefined; then echo WARNING: Could not determine device tree to use; fi;
    finduuid=part uuid mmc ${bootpart} uuid
    fit_bootfile=fitImage
    fit_loadaddr=0x90000000
    get_overlaystring=for overlay in $overlay_files;do;setenv overlaystring ${overlaystring}'#'${overlay};done;
    ice_mii=mii
    importbootenv=echo Importing environment from mmc${mmcdev} ...; env import -t ${loadaddr} ${filesize}
    init_console=if test $board_name = A335_ICE; then setenv console ttyO3,115200n8;else setenv console ttyO0,115200n8;fi;
    kernel_addr_r=0x82000000
    load_efi_dtb=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${fdt_addr_r} ${prefix}${efi_fdtfile}
    loadaddr=0x82000000
    loadbootenv=fatload mmc ${mmcdev} ${loadaddr} ${bootenvfile}
    loadbootscript=load mmc ${mmcdev} ${loadaddr} boot.scr
    loadfdt=load ${devtype} ${bootpart} ${fdtaddr} ${bootdir}/${fdtfile}
    loadfit=run args_mmc; run run_fit;
    loadimage=load ${devtype} ${bootpart} ${loadaddr} ${bootdir}/${bootfile}
    loadramdisk=load mmc ${mmcdev} ${rdaddr} ramdisk.gz
    mmc_boot=if mmc dev ${devnum}; then setenv devtype mmc; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
    mmcboot=mmc dev ${mmcdev}; setenv devnum ${mmcdev}; setenv devtype mmc; if mmc rescan; then echo SD/MMC found on device ${mmcdev};if run loadimage; then if test ${boot_fit} -eq 1; then run loadfit; else run mmcloados;fi;fi;fi;
    mmcdev=1
    mmcloados=run args_mmc; if test ${boot_fdt} = yes || test ${boot_fdt} = try; then if run loadfdt; then bootz ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}; else if test ${boot_fdt} = try; then bootz; else echo WARN: Cannot load the DT; fi; fi; else bootz; fi;
    mmcrootfstype=ext4 rootwait
    mtdids=nand0=nand.0
    mtdparts=mtdparts=nand.0:128k(NAND.SPL),128k(NAND.SPL.backup1),128k(NAND.SPL.backup2),128k(NAND.SPL.backup3),256k(NAND.u-boot-spl-os),1m(NAND.u-boot),128k(NAND.u-boot-env),128k(NAND.u-boot-env.backup1),8m(NAND.kernel),-(NAND.file-system)
    nandargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs} root=${nandroot} rootfstype=${nandrootfstype}
    nandboot=echo Booting from nand ...; run nandargs; nand read ${fdtaddr} NAND.u-boot-spl-os; nand read ${loadaddr} NAND.kernel; bootz ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}
    nandroot=ubi0:rootfs rw ubi.mtd=NAND.file-system,2048
    nandrootfstype=ubifs rootwait=1
    netargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs} root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath},${nfsopts} rw ip=dhcp
    netboot=echo Booting from network ...; setenv autoload no; dhcp; run netloadimage; run netloadfdt; run netargs; bootz ${loadaddr} - ${fdtaddr}
    netloadfdt=tftp ${fdtaddr} ${fdtfile}
    netloadimage=tftp ${loadaddr} ${bootfile}
    nfsopts=nolock
    partitions=uuid_disk=${uuid_gpt_disk};name=bootloader,start=384K,size=1792K,uuid=${uuid_gpt_bootloader};name=rootfs,start=2688K,size=-,uuid=${uuid_gpt_rootfs}
    pxefile_addr_r=0x80100000
    ramargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs} root=${ramroot} rootfstype=${ramrootfstype}
    ramboot=echo Booting from ramdisk ...; run ramargs; bootz ${loadaddr} ${rdaddr} ${fdtaddr}
    ramdisk_addr_r=0x88080000
    ramroot=/dev/ram0 rw
    ramrootfstype=ext2
    rdaddr=0x88080000
    rootpath=/export/rootfs
    run_fit=bootm ${fit_loadaddr}#${fdtfile}${overlaystring}
    scan_dev_for_boot=echo Scanning ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart}...; for prefix in ${boot_prefixes}; do run scan_dev_for_extlinux; run scan_dev_for_scripts; done;run scan_dev_for_efi;
    scan_dev_for_boot_part=part list ${devtype} ${devnum} -bootable devplist; env exists devplist || setenv devplist 1; for distro_bootpart in ${devplist}; do if fstype ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} bootfstype; then run scan_dev_for_boot; fi; done
    scan_dev_for_efi=setenv efi_fdtfile ${fdtfile}; if test -z "${fdtfile}" -a -n "${soc}"; then setenv efi_fdtfile ${soc}-${board}${boardver}.dtb; fi; for prefix in ${efi_dtb_prefixes}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${efi_fdtfile}; then run load_efi_dtb; fi;done;if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} efi/boot/bootarm.efi; then echo Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi; run boot_efi_binary; echo EFI LOAD FAILED: continuing...; fi; setenv efi_fdtfile
    scan_dev_for_extlinux=if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${boot_syslinux_conf}; then echo Found ${prefix}${boot_syslinux_conf}; run boot_extlinux; echo SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...; fi
    scan_dev_for_scripts=for script in ${boot_scripts}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${script}; then echo Found U-Boot script ${prefix}${script}; run boot_a_script; echo SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...; fi; done
    scriptaddr=0x80000000
    serial#=SAAB Seaeye
    soc=am33xx
    spiargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} ${optargs} root=${spiroot} rootfstype=${spirootfstype}
    spiboot=echo Booting from spi ...; run spiargs; sf probe ${spibusno}:0; sf read ${loadaddr} ${spisrcaddr} ${spiimgsize}; bootz ${loadaddr}
    spibusno=0
    spiimgsize=0x362000
    spiroot=/dev/mtdblock4 rw
    spirootfstype=jffs2
    spisrcaddr=0xe0000
    static_ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:${netmask}:${hostname}::off
    stderr=serial@44e09000
    stdin=serial@44e09000
    stdout=serial@44e09000
    update_to_fit=setenv loadaddr ${fit_loadaddr}; setenv bootfile ${fit_bootfile}
    usb_boot=usb start; if usb dev ${devnum}; then setenv devtype usb; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
    usbnet_devaddr=de:ad:be:ef:00:01
    vendor=ti
    ver=U-Boot 2019.01-g8b90adfb16 (Jul 07 2019 - 10:08:45 +0000)
    
    Environment size: 10167/131068 bytes
    =>
    

  • Hello Mathew,

    Mathew Maher49 said:
    1. any ideas why uboot is ignoring uEnv.txt fdtfile setting?

    You need to execute run loadbootenv; run importbootenv commands to have the uEnv.txt file loaded.

    => run loadbootenv
    => run importbootenv


    Mathew Maher49 said:
    2. can you advise a better/simple way to apply a custom device tree to u-boot??

    The device tree gets applied by the statements in findfdt variable. You can simply change it from

    findfdt=if test $board_name = A335BONE; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bone.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335BNLT; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblack.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335PBGL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-pocketbeagle.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblack-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBG1; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBGW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblue.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBEN; then setenv fdtfile am335x-sancloud-bbe.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A33515BB; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evm.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335X_SK; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evmsk.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = rmii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = mii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2-prueth.dtb; fi; if test $fdtfile = undefined; then echo WARNING: Could not determine device tree to use; fi;

    to

    findfdt=if test $board_name = A335BONE; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bone.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335BNLT; then setenv fdtfile custom-board.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335PBGL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-pocketbeagle.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblack-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBG1; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBGW; then setenv fdtfile am335x-bonegreen-wireless.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBBL; then setenv fdtfile am335x-boneblue.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = BBEN; then setenv fdtfile am335x-sancloud-bbe.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A33515BB; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evm.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335X_SK; then setenv fdtfile am335x-evmsk.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = rmii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2.dtb; fi; if test $board_name = A335_ICE && test $ice_mii = mii; then setenv fdtfile am335x-icev2-prueth.dtb; fi; if test $fdtfile = undefined; then echo WARNING: Could not determine device tree to use; fi;

    Mathew Maher49 said:
    3. any ideas why savenv should be failing?


    You are booting from eMMC but trying to save the environment to SD card. Please, refer to this and this thread.

    You may also find this, this and this threads helpful.

    Best regards,
    Kemal