MikroTik RB5009 uses RouterBoot as its bootloader like all MikroTik devices
running RouterOS, meaning that its not FIT compatible and can only boot
ELF images.
Now this is not so much of an issue on ARM or MIPS since kernel supports
appending DTB-s to it (Or we patch the kernel to embed it), but on ARM64
there is intentionally no such support.
RouterBoot will pass a DTB, but its the broken MikroTik one which is a
modified reference DTB and incorrect in more places than its valid so we
cannot use it to boot our kernel.
Thus, the solution is to use an intermediary loader and luckily for us
Armada 7040 is well supported in U-Boot which makes it a great option since
it supports anything that we will ever need to boot.
Upstream U-Boot currently requires the Armada boards to be converted to
OF_UPSTREAM before adding anything new and this requires updating all of
the drivers to accomodate the Linux DTS, while I plan to do this eventually
we will need to keep this board downstream for now.
Most stuff is supported in U-Boot, including networking since the switch
is preconfigured by RouterBoot.
A custom environment is used to try and boot from the following devices:
1. NAND (UBI)
2. USB
3. Networking
If NAND boot fails then U-Boot will attempt to boot OpenWrt initramfs from
USB or via networking.
There is a manual recovery mechanism implemented where if the reset button
is held when U-Boot is booting it will try to boot OpenWrt initramfs from:
1. USB
2. Networking
When U-Boot is in recovery mode it will light all of the LED-s except the
switch ones.
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/15765
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Lets update to 2024.04 in order to drop all of the patches as they have
been merged upstream.
Tested on Methode eDPU.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Since 2021.07 multiple bugs were introduced that made it impossible to
create a bootable target for mvebu. Those issues should be now fixed since
2023.07-rc1.
References: #11661
Signed-off-by: Oli Ze <olze@trustserv.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com> # espressobin-v3-v5-1gb-2cs
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz> [facelift]
Based on Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>'s guidance:
Change AUTORELEASE in rules.mk to:
```
AUTORELEASE = $(if $(DUMP),0,$(shell sed -i "s/\$$(AUTORELEASE)/$(call commitcount,1)/" $(CURDIR)/Makefile))
```
then update all affected packages by:
```
for i in $(git grep -l PKG_RELEASE:=.*AUTORELEASE | sed 's^.*/\([^/]*\)/Makefile^\1^';);
do
make package/$i/clean
done
```
Signed-off-by: Tianling Shen <cnsztl@immortalwrt.org>
In the version 2023.01, the U-boot image was renamed because of the
upstream change [1]
[1] 87ac4b4b4c
Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>
Add support for building for Methode eDPU board, no patches are needed
as board has been upstreamed and is part of the 2022.10-rc releases.
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
Update mvebu U-boot to 2022.10 to avoid backporting patches in order
to support Methode eDPU.
It also allows dropping existing patches as they are all backports.
Tested-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com> # espressobin-v3-v5-1gb-2cs
Tested-by: Russell Morris <github@rkmorris.us> # espressobin-v3-v5-1gb-1cs
Tested-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com> [Turris Omnia]
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@sartura.hr>
We don't need to make sure that we want to have enabled
CONFIG_CMD_SETEXPR by default, since this is already done in U-boot [1].
This was actually needed only for clearfog board [2], which was added in
commit: da0005a6d08ae33d958a6d8a6c0c12dc07b5b2b8 ("uboot-mvebu: add
patch to enable setexpr for clearfog boards) and send to U-boot to fix
it properly. After a while, there was added support for Turris Omnia,
which uses setexpr as well [3], but for this board, there are no fixes
needed in U-boot and that's why we can remove this option here.
It is helpful with shell scripting. If some downstream distributions are
using it, they should correct it in defconfig for related boards.
[1] e95afa5675/cmd/Kconfig (L1504)
[2] 852126680e/target/linux/mvebu/image/clearfog.bootscript (L7)
[3] 852126680e/target/linux/mvebu/image/turris-omnia.bootscript (L2)
Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>
Using Host/Exports doesn't work as intended, explicitly add the
required vars so that u-boot finds the required libraries when building
its tools.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
u-boot binaries are not useful for these boards, they need to be combined
with atf for a proper firmware.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
u-boot binaries for this SoC are only required for the atf package,
disable them per default so they don't get build unnecessarily.
Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider@gmail.com>
The BUILD_VARIANT might differ from UBOOT_CONFIG, so point to a file we
are actually changing. Being here let's call 'Build/Configure/U-Boot'
definition, instead of definig the same command. This'll be more future
proof, if U-Boot configuration procedure will change.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tomek_n@o2.pl>
* add u-boot support for uDPU
* add line to copy u-boot binary to STAGING_DIR_IMAGE, this can later be used
as BL33 variable required for ATF build
* add patch to increase max gunzip size in mvebu_armada-37xx.h which is
required for booting the itb recovery images
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Vid <vladimir.vid@sartura.hr>
Some devices and packages require newer version of u-boot to work
properly, update u-boot to keep up with 4.19 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Vid <vladimir.vid@sartura.hr>
[re-added missing commit message]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>
Add vendors in device names and also rename few device names, for easier
identyfying potential firmware to flash. The vendor and device string is
mainly derived from model/compatipble string in dts from particular
device, but since not all devices are well described, some of the renames
follow marketing names.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Maciej Nowak <tomek_n@o2.pl>
The uboot-mvebu package incorrectly used the host pkg-config for the tool
build parts, which broke the build on systems lacking pkg-config and only
worked by accident on those that have it installed.
Export the host-build specific environment variables for the uboot build
to redirect pkg-config invocations to our staged host build pkg-config in
buildroot.
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
This release brings various improvements to clearfog support, such as distro-boot.
Obsoletes:
0002-clearfog-reset-usom-onboard-1512-phy.patch
0003-clearfog-enable-distro-boot-code.patch
Signed-off-by: Josua Mayer <josua.mayer97@gmail.com>
CONFIG_* variables can easily be set by overriding Build/Configure.
so set NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR=y and CMD_SETEXPR=y here.
This replaces the following patches:
0001-clearfog-generate-random-MAC-address.patch
0004-clearfog-enable-setexpr-command-by-default.patch
Signed-off-by: Josua Mayer <josua.mayer97@gmail.com>
Since I have no openssl-dev on my machine, I first
get this error:
```
tools/kwbimage.c:21:10: fatal error: openssl/bn.h: No such file or directory
#include <openssl/bn.h>
```
After removing the UBOOT_MAKE_FLAGS the next error is:
```
tools/kwbimage.c:40:6: error: conflicting types for ‘EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup’
void EVP_MD_CTX_cleanup(EVP_MD_CTX *ctx)
```
After removing the OpenSSL patches the next error is:
```
HOSTLD tools/dumpimage
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
scripts/Makefile.host:108: recipe for target 'tools/dumpimage' failed
make[5]: *** [tools/dumpimage] Error 1
```
So, the final part is to add the build system's
HOST_LDFLAGS to the UBOOT_MAKE_FLAGS.
(which was done in the previous commit)
Then the image builds.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
Add support for SolidRun ClearFog Base board.
The base model is a smaller version of ClearFog Pro without
the DSA switch, replacing it with a second copper gigabit
port, and only one PCIe socket.
Signed-off-by: Marko Ratkaj <marko.ratkaj@sartura.hr>
Do not put the u-boot images into the kernel build directory as this directory
might get removed after kernel updates while the u-boot packages InstallDev
recipe is not getting re-executed because it is still considered current,
leading to image build failures later on due to missing u-boot images.
To ensure that built bootloader images persist over kernel version updates in
the buildroot, put them into the new STAGING_DIR_IMAGE directory.
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Uboot-mvebu isn't a real package, which will break the image builder
when it tries to install it during the packing step. Instead of cleafog
selecting it through its default packages, make it default to m if the
clearfog profile is selected.
This will ensure it is always build, but never added to the rootfs. This
fixes creating images for clearfog with IB.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
The clearfog image requires u-boot, so package it into KDIR to make sure
it is available in imageBuilder.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
