(resending to including the first paragraph which got deleted for some reason).
The patchset adds support for the FWU Multi Bank Update[1] feature. Certain aspects of the Dependable Boot[2] specification have also been implemented.
The FWU multi bank update feature is used for supporting multiple sets(also called banks) of firmware image(s), allowing the platform to boot from a different bank, in case it fails to boot from the active bank. This functionality is supported by keeping the relevant information in a structure called metadata, which provides information on the images. Among other parameters, the metadata structure contains information on the currect active bank that is being used to boot image(s).
Functionality is being added to work with the UEFI capsule driver in u-boot. The metadata is read to gather information on the update bank, which is the bank to which the firmware images would be flashed to. On a successful completion of the update of all components, the active bank field in the metadata is updated, to reflect the bank from which the platform will boot on the subsequent boots.
Currently, the feature is being enabled on the STM32MP157C-DK2 board which boots a FIP image from a uSD card partitioned with the GPT partioning scheme. This also requires changes in the previous stage of bootloader, which parses the metadata and selects the bank to boot the image(s) from. Support is being added in tf-a(BL2 stage) for the STM32MP157C-DK2 board to boot the active bank images. These changes are under review currently[3].
Todo's ------ 1) Add a test(selftest) for the metadata access. 2) Add a tool for generation of the metadata. Not sure if this needs to be part of the u-boot repository though. 3) Add a tool for generation of the firmware accept/reject dummy capsule. Need to check if this can be added to the mkeficapsule tool in u-boot.
[1] - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0118/a [2] - https://staging-git.codelinaro.org/linaro/firmware-dual-banked-updates/test [3] - https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/12566
Sughosh Ganu (10): GPT: Add function to get gpt header and partition entries stm32mp: dfu: Move the ram partitions to the end of the dfu_alt_info variable FWU: Add metadata structure and functions for accessing metadata FWU: Add metadata access functions for GPT partitioned block devices FWU: stm32mp1: Add helper functions for accessing metadata FWU: STM32MP1: Add support to read boot index from backup register EFI: FMP: Add provision to update image's ImageTypeId in image descriptor FWU: Add boot time checks as highlighted by the FWU specification FWU: Add support for FWU Multi Bank Update feature FWU: cmd: Add a command to read metadata
arch/arm/mach-stm32mp/include/mach/stm32.h | 1 + board/st/common/stm32mp_dfu.c | 11 +- board/st/stm32mp1/stm32mp1.c | 70 ++ cmd/Kconfig | 6 + cmd/Makefile | 1 + cmd/fwu_metadata.c | 65 ++ common/board_r.c | 6 + disk/part_efi.c | 10 + include/fwu_metadata.h | 140 ++++ include/part.h | 14 + lib/Kconfig | 32 + lib/Makefile | 1 + lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c | 190 +++++- lib/efi_loader/efi_firmware.c | 76 ++- lib/fwu_updates/Makefile | 11 + lib/fwu_updates/fwu.c | 170 +++++ lib/fwu_updates/fwu_metadata.c | 275 ++++++++ lib/fwu_updates/fwu_metadata_gpt_blk.c | 716 +++++++++++++++++++++ 18 files changed, 1784 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 cmd/fwu_metadata.c create mode 100644 include/fwu_metadata.h create mode 100644 lib/fwu_updates/Makefile create mode 100644 lib/fwu_updates/fwu.c create mode 100644 lib/fwu_updates/fwu_metadata.c create mode 100644 lib/fwu_updates/fwu_metadata_gpt_blk.c