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diff --git a/board/ti/am65x/README b/board/ti/am65x/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e7f4ff6578 --- /dev/null +++ b/board/ti/am65x/README @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +Introduction: +------------- +The AM65x family of SoCs is the first device family from K3 Multicore +SoC architecture, targeted for broad market and industrial control with +aim to meet the complex processing needs of modern embedded products. + +The device is built over three domains, each containing specific processing +cores, voltage domains and peripherals: +1. Wake-up (WKUP) domain: + - Device Management and Security Controller (DMSC) +2. Microcontroller (MCU) domain: + - Dual Core ARM Cortex-R5F processor +3. MAIN domain: + - Quad core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 + +More info can be found in TRM: http://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruid7 + +Boot Flow: +---------- +On AM65x family devices, ROM supports boot only via MCU(R5). This means that +bootloader has to run on R5 core. In order to meet this constraint, and for +the following reasons the boot flow is designed as mentioned: +1. Need to move away from R5 asap, so that we want to start *any* +firmware on the r5 cores like.... autosar can be loaded to receive CAN +response and other safety operations to be started. This operation is +very time critical and is applicable for all automotive use cases. +2. U-Boot on A53 should start other remotecores for various +applications. This should happen before running Linux. +3. In production boot flow, we might not like to use full u-boot, +instead use Flacon boot flow to reduce boot time. + ++------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| DMSC | R5 | A53 | ++------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| +--------+ | | | +| | Reset | | | | +| +--------+ | | | +| : | | | +| +--------+ | +-----------+ | | +| | *rom* |----------|-->| Reset rls | | | +| +--------+ | +-----------+ | | +| | | | : | | +| | rom | | : | | +| |services| | : | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | | | | *R5 rom* | | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | |<---------|---|Load and auth| | | +| | | | | tiboot3.bin | | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | | | : | | +| | | | : | | +| | | | : | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | Start | | | *R5 SPL* | | | +| | System | | +-------------+ | | +| |Firmware|<---------|---|Load and auth| | | +| +--------+ | | sysfw bin | | | +| : | +-------------+ | | +| +---------+ | | DDR | | | +| | *SYSFW* | | | config | | | +| +---------+ | +-------------+ | | +| | |<--------|---| Load | | | +| | | | | tispl.bin | | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | |<--------|---| Start A53 | | | +| | | | | and Reset | | | +| | | | +-------------+ | | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | |---------|-----------------------|---->| Reset rls | | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | DMSC | | | : | +| |Services | | | +-----------+ | +| | |<--------|-----------------------|---->|*ATF/OPTEE*| | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | | | | : | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | |<--------|-----------------------|---->| *A53 SPL* | | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | | | | | Load | | +| | | | | | u-boot.img| | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | | | | : | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | |<--------|-----------------------|---->| *u-boot* | | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| | | | | | prompt | | +| | | | | +-----------+ | +| +---------+ | | | +| | | | ++------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +- Here DMSC acts as master and provides all the critical services. R5/A53 +requests DMSC to get these services done as shown in the above diagram. + +Sources: +-------- +1. SYSFW: + System Firmware repo is closed source and the binaries are delivered + to users with NDA. Please contact TI to get the System Firmware + Binary named ti-sci-firmware-am6x.bin that runs on AM65x SoC. + +2. ATF: + Tree: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git + Branch: master + +3. OPTEE: + Tree: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os.git + Branch: master + +4. U-Boot: + Tree: http://git.denx.de/u-boot.git + Branch: master + +Build procedure: +---------------- +1. SYSFW: + ROM expects a signed binary that contains the X509 certificate. So +the binary ti-sci-firmware-am6x.bin cannot be uses as-is and needs to be signed. +Contact TI on the procedure to sign the system firmware binary. + +2. ATF: +$ make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ARCH=aarch64 PLAT=k3 TARGET_BOARD=generic SPD=opteed + +3. OPTEE: +$ make PLATFORM=k3-am65x CFG_ARM64_core=y + +4. U-Boot: + +4.1. R5: + TBD. + +4.2. A53: +$ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- am65x_evm_a53_defconfig O=/tmp/a53 +$ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ATF=<path to ATF dir>/build/k3/generic/release/bl31.bin TEE=<path to OPTEE OS dir>/out/arm-plat-k3/core/tee-pager.bin O=/tmp/a53 + +Target Images +-------------- +Copy the below images to an SD card and boot: +- tiboot3.bin from step 4.1 +- tispl.bin, u-boot.img from 4.2 |