Hi Eugen,
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 03:58, Eugen Hristev eugen.hristev@microchip.com wrote:
Newer DTC require that the DTB start address is aligned at 8 bytes. In the u-boot.bin case, the u-boot-nodtb.bin is concatenated with the DTB, but there is no alignment/padding to the next 8byte aligned address. This causes the board to fail booting, because the FDT will claim that the DTB inside u-boot.bin is not a valid DTB, it will fail with -FDT_ERR_ALIGNMENT. To solve this, have the u-boot binary `_end` aligned with 8 bytes. The objcopy in the Makefile will create the u-boot-nodtb.bin and it has to be truncated to 8 bytes to correspond to the u-boot.map file which will have the `_end` aligned to 8 bytes. The lds files which use devicetrees have been changed to align the `_end` tag with 8 bytes.
This patch is also a prerequisite to have the possibility to update the dtc inside u-boot to newer versions (1.6.1+)
Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev eugen.hristev@microchip.com
Hi,
I could not test all affected boards, it's an impossible task. I tried this on at91 boards which I have, and ran the CI on denx. I cannot guarantee that no other boards are affected, so this patch is a bit of an RFC. If the u-boot-nodtb.bin does not have the size equal with the corresponding one in u-boot.map, the binary_size_check will fail at build time with something like this:
u-boot.map shows a binary size of 502684 but u-boot-nodtb.bin shows 502688
Thanks, Eugen
Makefile | 2 ++ arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds | 4 ++-- arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds | 1 + arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds | 1 + arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds | 5 +++++ arch/arm/mach-at91/arm926ejs/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-at91/armv7/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-zynq/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 +- arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds | 2 +- arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds | 6 ++++++ arch/sh/cpu/u-boot.lds | 2 ++ board/ti/am335x/u-boot.lds | 1 + tools/binman/test/u_boot_binman_embed.lds | 2 +- 13 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9d84f96481..b4d387bcce 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1317,6 +1317,8 @@ endif
u-boot-nodtb.bin: u-boot FORCE $(call if_changed,objcopy_uboot) +# Make sure the size is 8 byte-aligned.
@truncate -s %8 $@ $(BOARD_SIZE_CHECK)
I agree this line is needed, since otherwise we will only get 4-byte alignment. But it would be better if we could have the linker scripts fill bytes out to the required alignment. Is that possible?
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Regards, Simon