| Overview | |
| -------- | |
| P2020RDB is a Low End Dual core platform supporting the P2020 processor | |
| of QorIQ series. P2020 is an e500 based dual core SOC. | |
| Building U-boot | |
| ----------- | |
| To build the u-boot for P2020RDB: | |
| make P2020RDB_config | |
| make | |
| NOR Flash Banks | |
| ----------- | |
| RDB board for P2020 has two flash banks. They are both present on boot. | |
| Booting by default is always from the boot bank at 0xef00_0000. | |
| Memory Map | |
| ---------- | |
| 0xef00_0000 - 0xef7f_ffff Alernate bank 8MB | |
| 0xe800_0000 - 0xefff_ffff Boot bank 8MB | |
| 0xef78_0000 - 0xef7f_ffff Alternate u-boot address 512KB | |
| 0xeff8_0000 - 0xefff_ffff Boot u-boot address 512KB | |
| Switch settings to boot from the NOR flash banks | |
| ------------------------------------------------ | |
| SW4[8]=0 default NOR Flash bank | |
| SW4[8]=1 Alternate NOR Flash bank | |
| Flashing Images | |
| --------------- | |
| To place a new u-boot image in the alternate flash bank and then boot | |
| with that new image temporarily, use this: | |
| tftp 1000000 u-boot.bin | |
| erase ef780000 ef7fffff | |
| cp.b 1000000 ef780000 80000 | |
| Now to boot from the alternate bank change the SW4[8] from 0 to 1. | |
| To program the image in the boot flash bank: | |
| tftp 1000000 u-boot.bin | |
| protect off all | |
| erase eff80000 ffffffff | |
| cp.b 1000000 eff80000 80000 | |
| Using the Device Tree Source File | |
| --------------------------------- | |
| To create the DTB (Device Tree Binary) image file, | |
| use a command similar to this: | |
| dtc -b 0 -f -I dts -O dtb p2020rdb.dts > p2020rdb.dtb | |
| Likely, that .dts file will come from here; | |
| linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p2020rdb.dts | |
| Booting Linux | |
| ------------- | |
| Place a linux uImage in the TFTP disk area. | |
| tftp 1000000 uImage.p2020rdb | |
| tftp 2000000 rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot | |
| tftp c00000 p2020rdb.dtb | |
| bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000 | |
| Implementing AMP(Asymmetric MultiProcessing) | |
| --------------------------------------------- | |
| 1. Build kernel image for core0: | |
| a. $ make 85xx/p1_p2_rdb_defconfig | |
| b. $ make menuconfig | |
| - un-select "Processor support"-> | |
| "Symetric multi-processing support" | |
| c. $ make uImage | |
| d. $ cp arch/powerpc/boot/uImage /tftpboot/uImage.core0 | |
| 2. Build kernel image for core1: | |
| a. $ make 85xx/p1_p2_rdb_defconfig | |
| b. $ make menuconfig | |
| - Un-select "Processor support"-> | |
| "Symetric multi-processing support" | |
| - Select "Advanced setup" -> | |
| "Prompt for advanced kernel configuration options" | |
| - Select | |
| "Set physical address where the kernel is loaded" | |
| and set it to 0x20000000, asssuming core1 will | |
| start from 512MB. | |
| - Select "Set custom page offset address" | |
| - Select "Set custom kernel base address" | |
| - Select "Set maximum low memory" | |
| - "Exit" and save the selection. | |
| c. $ make uImage | |
| d. $ cp arch/powerpc/boot/uImage /tftpboot/uImage.core1 | |
| 3. Create dtb for core0: | |
| $ dtc -I dts -O dtb -f -b 0 | |
| arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p2020rdb_camp_core0.dts > | |
| /tftpboot/p2020rdb_camp_core0.dtb | |
| 4. Create dtb for core1: | |
| $ dtc -I dts -O dtb -f -b 1 | |
| arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p2020rdb_camp_core1.dts > | |
| /tftpboot/p2020rdb_camp_core1.dtb | |
| 5. Bring up two cores separately: | |
| a. Power on the board, under u-boot prompt: | |
| => setenv <serverip> | |
| => setenv <ipaddr> | |
| => setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram rw console=ttyS0,115200 | |
| b. Bring up core1's kernel first: | |
| => setenv bootm_low 0x20000000 | |
| => setenv bootm_size 0x10000000 | |
| => tftp 21000000 uImage.core1 | |
| => tftp 22000000 ramdiskfile | |
| => tftp 20c00000 p2020rdb_camp_core1.dtb | |
| => interrupts off | |
| => bootm start 21000000 22000000 20c00000 | |
| => bootm loados | |
| => bootm ramdisk | |
| => bootm fdt | |
| => fdt boardsetup | |
| => fdt chosen $initrd_start $initrd_end | |
| => bootm prep | |
| => cpu 1 release $bootm_low - $fdtaddr - | |
| c. Bring up core0's kernel(on the same u-boot console): | |
| => setenv bootm_low 0 | |
| => setenv bootm_size 0x20000000 | |
| => tftp 1000000 uImage.core0 | |
| => tftp 2000000 ramdiskfile | |
| => tftp c00000 p2020rdb_camp_core0.dtb | |
| => bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000 | |
| Please note only core0 will run u-boot, core1 starts kernel directly | |
| after "cpu release" command is issued. |