Hi Simon,
I got the ramdisk loading problem sorted out by modifying values of initrd_high and fdt_high setenv initrd_high 82F4EFFF; setenv fdt_high 824FFFFF
This resulted in: ramdisk load start = 0x82a00000, ramdisk load end = 0x82f4eaa2 ## device tree at 00000000920989cc ... 00000000920ec99e (len=356307 [0x56FD3]) Loading Device Tree to 00000000824a9000, end 00000000824fffd2 ... OK
Thanks for all your guidance and pointers.
- Rayees
-----Original Message----- From: Rayees Shamsuddin Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 9:29 PM To: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Need help with verified u-boot on Tegra TX2
Hi Simon,
I got some more information by instrumenting the u-boot functions that you suggested and made appropriate modifications, but still the kernel logs show RAMDISK error. "RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0."
This is with the normal u-boot from Tegra INFO_RAYEES: *initrd_start is 82a00000, initrd_end is 82f4eaa2
I got this with the fit image (setenv initrd_high 8effffff; setenv fdt_high 8effffff) INFO_RAYEES: *initrd_start is 8eab1000, initrd_end is 8efffaa2
Then I adjusted the initrd_high and fdt_high to be 82F4EFFF which yielded: INFO_RAYEES: *initrd_start is 82a00000, initrd_end is 82f4eaa2
This is similar to the normal u-boot, yet has the same RAMDISK error. I am surprised that I had to change the initrd_high and fdt_high to achieve this load address. I had specified the load address for ramdisk, wondering why it didn’t take effect?
The other difference I can see is in the FDT address:
Normal u-boot ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 80000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x80000000 reserving fdt memory region: addr=80000000 size=10000 Using Device Tree in place at 0000000080000000, end 0000000080058f8e
With FIT image Loading Device Tree to 000000008ea5a000, end 000000008eab0fd2 ... OK
Can I specify the load address for FDT blob as well in the fit image? Does it matter?
- Rayees
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Sent: Monday, October 21, 2019 3:54 PM To: Rayees Shamsuddin Rayees.Shamsuddin@intusurg.com Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Need help with verified u-boot on Tegra TX2
Hi Rayees,
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 15:55, Rayees Shamsuddin Rayees.Shamsuddin@intusurg.com wrote:
Hi Simon,
In the normal u-boot, they used extlinux to specify the ramdisk. I was using bootm to load the ramdisk.
This is the normal boot up terminal logs.
"MMC: no card present switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf 727 bytes read in 105 ms (5.9 KiB/s) L4T boot options 1: primary kernel Enter choice: 1: primary kernel Retrieving file: /boot/initrd 5565090 bytes read in 213 ms (24.9 MiB/s) Retrieving file: /boot/Image 34179080 bytes read in 857 ms (38 MiB/s) append: root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 fbcon=map:0 net.ifnames=0 video=tegrafb no_console_suspend=1 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x3100000 nvdumper_reserved=0x2772e0000 gpt usbcore.old_scheme_first=1 tegraid=18.1.2.0.0 maxcpus=6 boot.slot_suffix= boot.ratchetvalues=0.2031647.1 bl_prof_dataptr=0x10000@0x275840000 sdhci_tegra.en_boot_part_access=1 ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 80000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x80000000 reserving fdt memory region: addr=80000000 size=10000 Using Device Tree in place at 0000000080000000, end 0000000080058f8e
Starting kernel ..."
My sequence with vboot was to set the bootargs first,then the initrd_high and fdt_high and then load to e-mmc and then call bootm. In the u-boot env, the following values were there. I am attaching the output of printenv here, if that could give some clues on what I am doing differently.
kernel_addr_r=80280000 kernel_addr_r_aliases=loadaddr loadaddr=80280000 ramdisk_addr_r=82a00000
"U-Boot 2016.07-dirty (Oct 16 2019 - 16:12:24 -0700)
TEGRA186 Model: NVIDIA P2771-0000-500 DRAM: 7.8 GiB MC: Tegra SD/MMC: 0, Tegra SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: eth0: ethernet@2490000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500) # setenv bootargs root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 fbcon=map:0 net.ifnames=0 video=tegrafb no_console_suspend=1 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x3100000 nvdumper_reserved=0x2772e0000 gpt usbcore.old_scheme_first=1 tegraid=18.1.2.0.0 maxcpus=6 boot.slot_suffix= boot.ratchetvalues=0.2031647.1 bl_prof_dataptr=0x10000@0x275840000 sdhci_tegra.en_boot_part_access=1 Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500) # setenv initrd_high 8effffff Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500) # setenv fdt_high 8effffff Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500) # ext2load mmc 0 0x90000000 /boot/tegra.fit 40090346 bytes read in 1051 ms (36.4 MiB/s) Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500) # bootm 0x90000000 ## Loading kernel from FIT Image at 90000000 ... Using 'conf@1' configuration Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256,rsa4096:tx2_key+ OK Trying 'kernel@1' kernel subimage Description: Linux kernel Type: Kernel Image Compression: uncompressed Data Start: 0x900000c8 Data Size: 34179080 Bytes = 32.6 MiB Architecture: AArch64 OS: Linux Load Address: 0x80280000 Entry Point: 0x80280000 Hash algo: sha256 Hash value: 417be59a15deda06283bdfdc2ef08911c27c0fbb3e4581fdf1f94f8ca7ee6193 Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256+ OK ## Loading ramdisk from FIT Image at 90000000 ... Using 'conf@1' configuration Trying 'ramdisk@1' ramdisk subimage Description: Ramdisk Image for Tegra TX2 Type: RAMDisk Image Compression: gzip compressed Data Start: 0x920eca74 Data Size: 5565090 Bytes = 5.3 MiB Architecture: AArch64 OS: Linux Load Address: 0x82a00000 Entry Point: 0x82a00000 Hash algo: sha256 Hash value: b248b753bb8c599756c40fc3f11b9c418e6638872f6af3ee44243af69a4f0b3f Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256+ OK Loading ramdisk from 0x920eca74 to 0x82a00000 ## Loading fdt from FIT Image at 90000000 ... Using 'conf@1' configuration Trying 'fdt@1' fdt subimage Description: DTB for Tegra TX2 Type: Flat Device Tree Compression: uncompressed Data Start: 0x920989cc Data Size: 344019 Bytes = 336 KiB Architecture: AArch64 Hash algo: sha256 Hash value: f2b4b8ac842eac0acfe25e129e102d9919ad16ce40499b079b4a73eb1f39f059 Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256+ OK Booting using the fdt blob at 0x920989cc Loading Kernel Image ... OK reserving fdt memory region: addr=80000000 size=10000 Loading Ramdisk to 8eab1000, end 8efffaa2 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 000000008ea5a000, end 000000008eab0fd2 ... OK
Starting kernel ..."
Thanks again for your time.
+Stephen Warren who may have some ideas.
I think that you should turn off vboot and get the FIT image running without that, to eliminate any problems. To me it seems that U-Boot is working correctly, but I'm not sure why the RAM disk cannot be found.
In terms of the U-Boot code:
image_setup_libfdt() sets up the device tree (which contains info about the initrd) fdt_initrd() is the function that actually writes the info to the DT
I suppose it is possible that the device tree does not have any spare space in it, and the error handling is broken in some way so it is not telling you. Other than that, I'm not sure.
Regards, Simon