Hi list,

We are having some difficulties getting USB-boot (for a starter with SPL) to work on a imx8mm.

Doing this is part of a debug-session for another problem, which is worth mentioning, as it has been discussed on this list in January/February 2022.

The original problem: we have a "complete" yocto-environment (kirkstone) using meta-imx (and thus u-boot-imx 2022.04) where we are building a booloader image without FIT.

We patched the atf to assign the UART4 to the Cortex A53 because it is this UART which is used as serial console.

The binary produced by imx-boot in this environment starts booting SPL and when jumping to the ATF it hangs.

Similar to what is seen here (some people from that thread are on CC, sorry for the noise).

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220203164637.GV7515@bill-the-cat/t/#r9071b8b65...

We tried several things to understand what's happening, without success.

A next step is now to build a SPL with upstream u-boot 2022.07 using an existing board (our board/dts-files are really not in good shape yet). We started using the imx8mm-beacon and then tried imx8mm-cl-iot-gate, when loading their SPL with uuu nothing is printed on the serial-console.

Here are the steps we did to build and flash it:

- patch imx-atf-2.6 to liberate UART4 into the Cortex A53-domain - build it and place the bl31.bin in uboot's source-tree - download ddr-firmwares and put them to uboot's source-tree - modify board/beacon/../spl.c to UART4 (pads and init_uart_clk(3)) - add FASTBOOT and USB_FUNCTION_FASTBOOT to its defconfig. - make deconfig && make - run "uuu SDP: boot -f flash.bin"

uuu finds the devices and then says "Okay" but nothing happens on the console and we think the board is not running anything.

The same uuu-command using the imx-boot-file from our yocto-env boots the SPL and the console is showing something sane.

What did we miss? What are the steps in upstream u-boot to create a board which can boot over SPL?

Thanks in advance for any help.

best regards, -- Patrick.