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From: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 23/23] Documentation: i.MX8M: add EVK QSPI NOR barebox installation documentation
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:42:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230228-v2023-02-0-topic-flexspi-v2-23-3d33126d2434@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230228-v2023-02-0-topic-flexspi-v2-0-3d33126d2434@pengutronix.de>

Document the steps required to flash the barebox image to a QSPI NOR
flash. This can be helpful if the user-space wants to update the QSPI
NOR barebox image. These steps can be skipped if barebox is updated by
the qspi bbu-handler.

Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mm-evk.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mn-evk.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mp-evk.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mm-evk.rst b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mm-evk.rst
index f0dfc53ed0..aa70419139 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mm-evk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mm-evk.rst
@@ -85,5 +85,16 @@ installation to the eMMC boot partition requires special handling:
     then afterwards, the newly written boot partition is activated
     (This is controlled by the barebox ``mmcX.boot`` variable).
 
+The following steps are required to write the image to the QSPI NOR flash:
+
+  - The 32KiB preamble MMC preamble must be stripped.
+
+  - The QSPI NOR partition ``barebox`` must be erased before the stripped
+    image is written. The erase size depends on the stripped image size but
+    always start at offset 0.
+
+  - Write the stripped barebox image to the QSPI NOR partition ``barebox``
+    at offset 0.
+
 The ``barebox_update`` command takes care of this and need just be
 supplied a barebox image as argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mn-evk.rst b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mn-evk.rst
index 177fc59c10..597db57eaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mn-evk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mn-evk.rst
@@ -80,5 +80,17 @@ installation to the eMMC boot partition requires special handling:
     start at an offset when booting from eMMC boot partitions, thus the first
     32KiB must be stripped.
 
+The following steps are required to write the image to the QSPI NOR flash:
+
+  - Strip the 32KiB preamble, like it is done for the eMMC boot partition case
+    (see above).
+
+  - The QSPI NOR partition ``barebox`` must be erased before the stripped
+    image is written. The erase size depends on the stripped image size but
+    always start at offset 0.
+
+  - Write the stripped barebox image to the QSPI NOR partition ``barebox``
+    at offset 0.
+
 The ``barebox_update`` command takes care of this and need just be
 supplied a barebox image as argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mp-evk.rst b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mp-evk.rst
index 53cdd904ab..cfd1153e15 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mp-evk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/imx/nxp-imx8mp-evk.rst
@@ -88,5 +88,17 @@ installation to the eMMC boot partition requires special handling:
     start at an offset when booting from eMMC boot partitions, thus the first
     32KiB must be stripped.
 
+The following steps are required to write the image to the QSPI NOR flash:
+
+  - Strip the 32KiB preamble, like it is done for the eMMC boot partition case
+    (see above).
+
+  - The QSPI NOR partition ``barebox`` must be erased before the stripped
+    image is written. The erase size depends on the stripped image size but
+    always start at offset 0.
+
+  - Write the stripped barebox image to the QSPI NOR partition ``barebox``
+    at offset 0.
+
 The ``barebox_update`` command takes care of this and need just be
 supplied a barebox image as argument.

-- 
2.30.2




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-13 13:41 [PATCH v2 00/23] FlexSPI image/boot/update support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/23] spi: remove flash_platform_data support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/23] bbu: make it possible to check multiple of-compatibles Marco Felsch
2023-04-04  7:04   ` Sascha Hauer
2023-04-04  8:01     ` Marco Felsch
2023-04-04  8:49       ` Sascha Hauer
2023-04-04  9:05         ` Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/23] ARM: i.MX8MM: add missing IMD_USED_OF image metadata entry Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/23] ARM: i.MX8MN: add missing IMD_USED_OF image metadata entries Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/23] mci: imx-esdhc-pbl: fix number of read blocks Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/23] mci: imx-esdhc-pbl: refactor the esdhc_load_image function Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/23] mci: imx-esdhc-pbl: move imx_load_image into common xload code Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 08/23] ARM: i.MX8M: Add QSPI image load support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/23] ARM: i.MX bootsource: set QSPI instance Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 10/23] ARM: i.MX8MM bootsource: fix QSPI boot source detection Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 11/23] ARM: i.MX8M: Add QSPI boot support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] scripts: imx-image: convert flag variables into bool Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] scripts: imx-image: header_v2: factor out offset parameter Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] scripts: imx-image: header_v2: add header_len parameter Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] scripts: imx-image: add FlexSPI image support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] filetype: add NXP FlexSPI filetype Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] ARM: i.MX: bbu: rename IMX_INTERNAL_FLAG_ERASE to IMX_BBU_FLAG_ERASE Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] ARM: i.MX: bbu: add filetype offset Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] ARM: i.MX: bbu: add FlexSPI update handler Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:41 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] ARM: i.MX8M: enable FlexSPI image support Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] ARM: i.MX8M: add qspi barebox and barebox-environment partitions Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:42 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] ARM: i.MX8M: add QSPI update handler Marco Felsch
2023-03-13 13:42 ` Marco Felsch [this message]
2023-03-17 11:11 ` [PATCH v2 00/23] FlexSPI image/boot/update support Sascha Hauer

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