TDA4VM: update 4GB rootfs image file in U-Boot

Pierre Hsieh

Intellectual 955 points

Part Number: TDA4VM

Hi Sir :

I want to update the all rootfs for the eMMC partition 0:2.

I made a 4GB rootfs ext4 image file. (4GB is already the minimum....)

Is there any way to update the image file to eMMC partition 0:2 in U-Boot ?

U-Boot SPL 2020.01-g5338e93-dirty (Dec 17 2020 - 11:25:43 +0800)
SYSFW ABI: 3.0 (firmware rev 0x0014 '20.04.1-v2020.04a (Terrific Lla')
Trying to boot from MMC1
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

init_env from device 17 not supported!
Starting ATF on ARM64 core...

NOTICE:  BL31: v2.3():07.00.00.005-dirty
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 14:33:55, Jun 17 2020

U-Boot SPL 2020.01-g5338e93-dirty (Dec 17 2020 - 11:26:22 +0800)
SYSFW ABI: 3.0 (firmware rev 0x0014 '20.04.1-v2020.04a (Terrific Lla')
Detected: J7X-BASE-CPB rev E3
Detected: J7X-VSC8514-ETH rev E2
Diagnostic Key Check
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2020.01-g5338e93-dirty (Dec 17 2020 - 11:26:22 +0800)

SoC:   J721E SR1.0
Model: Texas Instruments K3 J721E SoC
Board: J721EX-PM2-SOM rev E7
DRAM:  4 GiB
Flash: 0 Bytes
MMC:   sdhci@4f80000: 0, sdhci@4fb0000: 1
Loading Environment from MMC... OK
In:    serial@2800000
Out:   serial@2800000
Err:   serial@2800000
Detected: J7X-BASE-CPB rev E3
Detected: J7X-VSC8514-ETH rev E2
Net:   
Warning: ethernet@046000000 using MAC address from ROM
eth0: ethernet@046000000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
=> 
=> mmc list
sdhci@4f80000: 0 (eMMC)
sdhci@4fb0000: 1
=> mmc info
Device: sdhci@4f80000
Manufacturer ID: 13
OEM: 14e
Name: S0J56 
Bus Speed: 200000000
Mode: HS400 (200MHz)
Rd Block Len: 512
MMC version 5.1
High Capacity: Yes
Capacity: 14.8 GiB
Bus Width: 8-bit DDR
Erase Group Size: 512 KiB
HC WP Group Size: 8 MiB
User Capacity: 14.8 GiB WRREL
Boot Capacity: 31.5 MiB ENH
RPMB Capacity: 4 MiB ENH
=> mmc part

Partition Map for MMC device 0  --   Partition Type: DOS

Part	Start Sector	Num Sectors	UUID		Type
  1	2048      	262144    	533994d0-01	0c Boot
  2	264192    	30816256  	533994d0-02	83

=> ls mmc 0:2
<DIR>       4096 .
<DIR>       4096 ..
<DIR>      16384 lost+found
<DIR>       4096 bin
<DIR>       4096 boot
<DIR>       4096 dev
<DIR>       4096 etc
<DIR>       4096 home
<DIR>       4096 include
<SYM>         20 init
<DIR>       4096 lib
<SYM>         19 linuxrc
<DIR>       4096 media
<DIR>       4096 mnt
<DIR>       4096 opt
<DIR>       4096 proc
<DIR>       4096 run
<DIR>       4096 sbin
<DIR>       4096 sys
<DIR>       4096 tmp
<DIR>       4096 usr
<DIR>       4096 var
=>

over 4 years ago

0 Vishal Mahaveer over 4 years ago

TI__Mastermind 33010 points

Hi Pierre,

You can use dfu-utils tool to flash the rootfs.
This works over USB.

If this method will work for you, I can share more details.

Regards,
Vishal

0 Pierre Hsieh over 4 years ago in reply to Vishal Mahaveer

Intellectual 955 points

Hi Vishal :

I split the 8GiB data into 256MiB and used TFPT to update eMMC.

=> TFTP Download 256 MiB image file path 01 => write eMMC ( MMC Dev 0)

=> TFTP Download 256 MiB image file path 02 => write eMMC ( MMC Dev 0)

...

=> TFTP Download 256 MiB image file path 15 => write eMMC ( MMC Dev 0)

I was able to successfully update rootfs.

But When I split 8GiB into 512MiB it will fail in TFTP transfer.

Hardware : TDA4EVM, SD Card boot

Software : PSDK 7.0.0 , boot-j7-evm.tar.gz

U-Boot SPL 2020.01-gf9b0d030d3 (Jun 17 2020 - 15:08:08 +0000)
SYSFW ABI: 3.0 (firmware rev 0x0014 '20.04.1-v2020.04a (Terrific Lla')
Trying to boot from MMC2
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - No MMC card found, using default environment

Remoteproc 2 started successfully
Starting ATF on ARM64 core...

NOTICE:  BL31: v2.3():07.00.00.005-dirty
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 14:33:55, Jun 17 2020

U-Boot SPL 2020.01-gf9b0d030d3 (Jun 17 2020 - 14:34:25 +0000)
SYSFW ABI: 3.0 (firmware rev 0x0014 '20.04.1-v2020.04a (Terrific Lla')
Detected: J7X-BASE-CPB rev E3
Detected: J7X-VSC8514-ETH rev E2
Trying to boot from MMC2


U-Boot 2020.01-gf9b0d030d3 (Jun 17 2020 - 14:34:25 +0000)

SoC:   J721E SR1.0
Model: Texas Instruments K3 J721E SoC
Board: J721EX-PM2-SOM rev E7
DRAM:  4 GiB
not found for dev hbmc-mux
Flash: 0 Bytes
MMC:   sdhci@4f80000: 0, sdhci@4fb0000: 1
Loading Environment from MMC... OK
In:    serial@2800000
Out:   serial@2800000
Err:   serial@2800000
Detected: J7X-BASE-CPB rev E3
Detected: J7X-VSC8514-ETH rev E2
Net:   
Warning: ethernet@046000000 using MAC address from ROM
eth0: ethernet@046000000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
=> 
=> tftp ${loadaddr} ${serverip}:rootfs.img_00
link up on port 1, speed 100, full duplex
Using ethernet@046000000 device
TFTP from server 192.168.101.2; our IP address is 192.168.101.1
Filename 'rootfs.img_00'.
Load address: 0x80080000
Loading: #################################################################
	 #################################################################
	...
	 #################################################################
	 #######################################
TFTP error: trying to overwrite reserved memory...
RX dma free_pkt failed -22
=> 
=> bdinfo
arch_number = 0x0000000000000000
boot_params = 0x0000000000000000
DRAM bank   = 0x0000000000000000
-> start    = 0x0000000080000000
-> size     = 0x0000000080000000
DRAM bank   = 0x0000000000000001
-> start    = 0x0000000880000000
-> size     = 0x0000000080000000
baudrate    = 115200 bps
TLB addr    = 0x00000000ffff0000
relocaddr   = 0x00000000ffee7000
reloc off   = 0x000000007f6e7000
irq_sp      = 0x00000000fdebbc90
sp start    = 0x00000000fdebbc90
Early malloc usage: 2ca8 / 8000
fdt_blob    = 0x00000000fdebbca8
=>

0 Keerthy J over 4 years ago in reply to Pierre Hsieh

TI__Guru**** 154120 points

Hi Pierre,

This looks the same as: https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors/f/791/p/946704/3502237#3502237

There are multiple reserved nodes in the vicinity of 0x80008000. So just follow the above response and see if
you change the load address to 0x0880000000 & try?

Best Regards,
Keerthy

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