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From: "Michał Kruszewski" <mkru@protonmail.com>
To: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Compiling barebox without PBL and using dts from Linux dts upstream for Zynq SoC
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:29:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mO0lDEdknvuZ-6R4RSHJePbDBcwiBmMAZB_d_sZMBEWJKoRltrWPiQqPxiF3Pukxv8_JAhFxG7-RFL5VUbOnDpwOEJ2_HkmE7lfSVEFA5bs=@protonmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

I try to boot Linux using barebox on the MYiR Z-turn board (Xilinx Zynq SoC).
I have generated the default configuration using `make zynq_defconfig`.
After compiling and trying to boot nothing works.
I am not surprised at all.
I started digging, and here are a few things that are not clear to me.

Issue number one.
Barebox consists of 2 bootloaders, the Pre-BootLoader (PBL) and Second-Stage BootLoader (SSBL).
However, in my case I use the First Stage BootLoader (FSBL) compiled by Vitis.
The FSBL does all the required hardware initialization.
In such a case, the PBL is superfluous.
I would like to disable it.
However, I can't disable PBL_IMAGE in menuconfig, it is forced to Y.
It is selected by PBL_MULTI_IMAGES [=y] && HAVE_PBL_MULTI_IMAGES [=y].
Moreover, I can't disable HAVE_PBL_MULTI_IMAGES, it is forced to Y by selecting ARM.
Disabling ARM of course makes no sense.
Is it even possible to configure barebox as a SSBL-only for the Zynq SoC?
How to achieve this?

The second issues is that the MYiR Z-turn board is not supported directly by barebox.
However, there is a valid dts description in the dts directory (Linux upstream device tree directory).
How can I tell barebox to use a dts from the Linux dts upstream directory?
I looked for some config in menuconfig but without success.

The third issue is that I can't compile dts in the dts directory.
The make help message says:
>   src/<ARCH>/<DTS>.dtb   Build a single device tree binary
However, when I try I get:
  [user@host] make src/arm/xilinx/zynq-zturn-v5.dtb
    DTC     src/arm/xilinx/zynq-zturn-v5.dtb
  /bin/sh: 1: -Wp,-MD,src/arm/xilinx/.zynq-zturn-v5.dtb.d.pre.tmp: not found
  make: *** [Makefile:148: src/arm/xilinx/zynq-zturn-v5.dtb] Error 127
Of course the ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE are exported.

Regards,
Michał Kruszewski





             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-26  7:29 Michał Kruszewski [this message]
2026-03-26  8:19 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-03-26  9:06   ` Michał Kruszewski
2026-03-26  9:28     ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-03-26 10:35       ` Michał Kruszewski
2026-03-26 14:07         ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-03-27 10:37           ` Michał Kruszewski

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