[PATCH 1/2] board: tbs2910: Enable Link Time Optimizations in defconfig
This saves about 12 kBytes image size and helps to stay within the size limit.
Suggested-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de --- Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Unfortunately we already are at the size limit for U-Boot v2022.04-rc3. Maybe Tom can pick up this patch directly, otherwise it's also fine for me to take this through the imx tree. --- configs/tbs2910_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig index e1278f2e70..8a33160564 100644 --- a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig +++ b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="imx6q-tbs2910" CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR=0x7c000000 CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT=y CONFIG_AHCI=y +CONFIG_LTO=y CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD=y CONFIG_BOOTDELAY=3 CONFIG_USE_BOOTCOMMAND=y -- 2.25.1
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de --- Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help. --- configs/tbs2910_defconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig index 8a33160564..79454053b0 100644 --- a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig +++ b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ CONFIG_PINCTRL=y CONFIG_PINCTRL_IMX6=y CONFIG_DM_RTC=y CONFIG_RTC_DS1307=y +CONFIG_DM_SERIAL=y +CONFIG_SERIAL_RX_BUFFER=y CONFIG_MXC_UART=y CONFIG_DM_THERMAL=y CONFIG_IMX_THERMAL=y -- 2.25.1
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
configs/tbs2910_defconfig | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
diff --git a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig index 8a33160564..79454053b0 100644 --- a/configs/tbs2910_defconfig +++ b/configs/tbs2910_defconfig @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ CONFIG_PINCTRL=y CONFIG_PINCTRL_IMX6=y CONFIG_DM_RTC=y CONFIG_RTC_DS1307=y +CONFIG_DM_SERIAL=y +CONFIG_SERIAL_RX_BUFFER=y CONFIG_MXC_UART=y CONFIG_DM_THERMAL=y CONFIG_IMX_THERMAL=y -- 2.25.1
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
Thanks, Soeren
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 08:22:10PM +0100, Soeren Moch wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
My point, largely to Simon, sorry, is that this isn't a "tbs2910" specific problem, but rather something that's not solved for any of the imx platforms as they do some form of what you note above. I suspect it's not solved for anything else either and other platforms are doing some number of what you said above (or relying on something else already having done the pinmux).
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 13:22, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
If you have a pinctrl driver it will be used. I don't really understand your problem.
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Well the pinctrl will be triggered before relocation and after, if enabled. We could solve that but have not tried.
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
If you want to use pinctrl in SPL, you can do all of this cleanly. If you have code-size constraints, then you may want to do something like rockchip, where only specific peripherals are supported in pinctrl in SPL.
You could look at firefly-rk3288 (or bob/coral/jerry) which I believe is done fully with driver model.
Perhaps Tom has a better handle on the problem.
Regards, Simon
Hi Simon,
On 14.03.22 20:37, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 13:22, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
If you have a pinctrl driver it will be used. I don't really understand your problem.
My problem is that pin initializations come too late (just before the "Core" boot message). Apparently I have a pinctrl driver, otherwise the pin init would not be done at all, I guess.
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Well the pinctrl will be triggered before relocation and after, if enabled. We could solve that but have not tried.
My problem is not runtime, if initialization is done twice from the same code this is probably OK. In my setup pins are _not_ initialized before relocation, when not done in board_early_init_f() "by hand", which I would like to avoid since this results in code duplication. Do I need to enable the before-relocation part somewhere? When yes, how exactly? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart DT node (as documented) did not work.
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
If you want to use pinctrl in SPL, you can do all of this cleanly. If you have code-size constraints, then you may want to do something like rockchip, where only specific peripherals are supported in pinctrl in SPL.
I do not use SPL, only U-Boot proper.
You could look at firefly-rk3288 (or bob/coral/jerry) which I believe is done fully with driver model.
I want a proper solution without SPL, see above.
Perhaps Tom has a better handle on the problem.
"Great." You are forcing everyone in DM conversions with deadlines. This conversion does not work as documented. When asked for help you only provide answers to different questions than what was asked. And you conclude with "create your own solution or ask someone else", at least this is as I understand this.
All this while DM conversions only bring additional work for maintainers of existing boards, DM conversions always come with increased code size, and only in the best case everything works like before.
On the other hand you complain about slow conversions and maintainers that wait for the very end of the deadline. Do you see the relation?
So I ask you again, Simon. How is this DM_SERIAL conversion supposed to be done properly? In general and especially for imx boards without SPL? Or is all this as incomplete as it looks like? In this case the conversion probably will again last until the end of the real deadline, about 3 years from now. And it will be done as in this patch (with your Reviewed-by blessing), papering over the fact that all the old code is still active, only the build warning is silenced. Exactly what we want to avoid, bigger code not better code. I hope we can clean this up in a follow-up patch.
Regards, Soeren
Regards, Simon
Hi Sören,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 15:51, Sören Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
Hi Simon,
On 14.03.22 20:37, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 13:22, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
... to get rid of the build warning. Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost.
Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device tree node did not help.
You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
If you have a pinctrl driver it will be used. I don't really understand your problem.
My problem is that pin initializations come too late (just before the "Core" boot message). Apparently I have a pinctrl driver, otherwise the pin init would not be done at all, I guess.
Who knows, why don't you check?
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Well the pinctrl will be triggered before relocation and after, if enabled. We could solve that but have not tried.
My problem is not runtime, if initialization is done twice from the same code this is probably OK. In my setup pins are _not_ initialized before relocation, when not done in board_early_init_f() "by hand", which I would like to avoid since this results in code duplication. Do I need to enable the before-relocation part somewhere? When yes, how exactly? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart DT node (as documented) did not work.
You need your driver to be bound before relocation (so needs the tag as you say). The infrastructure is all there and works on other boards. It is strange that you don't use SPL, though. How do you init the DRAM?
You could enable the debug UART as a starting point, if you don't have JTAG debugging, since that will allow you to figure out why your pinctrl driver is not being run.
In the unlikely event that it helps, see the diff below that was enough to get the serial going on an mx6 board in SPL about 2 years ago (so the tags should work the same for U-Boot proper before relocation).
If the error checking is working correctly and people have not just make drivers return 0 when something goes wrong, you can normally figure out which driver is missing.
new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b83881780c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-snappermx6-u-boot.dtsi @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +/* + * Copyright 2020 Designa Electronics Ltd + */ + +/ { + chosen { + stdout-path = &uart5; + }; +}; + +&aips2 { + u-boot,dm-pre-reloc; +}; + +&soc { + u-boot,dm-pre-reloc; +}; + +&uart5 { + u-boot,dm-pre-reloc; +}; diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi index e4daf150881..33e636b2d31 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ interrupts = <0 94 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; };
- soc { + soc: soc { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "simple-bus"; @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ }; };
- aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */ + aips2: aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */ compatible = "fsl,aips-bus", "simple-bus"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>;
Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
If you want to use pinctrl in SPL, you can do all of this cleanly. If you have code-size constraints, then you may want to do something like rockchip, where only specific peripherals are supported in pinctrl in SPL.
I do not use SPL, only U-Boot proper.
You could look at firefly-rk3288 (or bob/coral/jerry) which I believe is done fully with driver model.
I want a proper solution without SPL, see above.
Perhaps Tom has a better handle on the problem.
"Great." You are forcing everyone in DM conversions with deadlines. This conversion does not work as documented. When asked for help you only provide answers to different questions than what was asked. And you conclude with "create your own solution or ask someone else", at least this is as I understand this.
Your expectations are way out of whack. U-Boot has supported driver model for serial for 8 years. U-Boot relies on people digging in and figuring out their own problems. I have converted more than a dozen boards to driver model (I am not actually sure how many) but I am just one person and there are over a thousand boards.
All this while DM conversions only bring additional work for maintainers of existing boards, DM conversions always come with increased code size, and only in the best case everything works like before.
On the other hand you complain about slow conversions and maintainers that wait for the very end of the deadline. Do you see the relation?
So I ask you again, Simon. How is this DM_SERIAL conversion supposed to be done properly? In general and especially for imx boards without SPL? Or is all this as incomplete as it looks like? In this case the conversion probably will again last until the end of the real deadline, about 3 years from now. And it will be done as in this patch (with your Reviewed-by blessing), papering over the fact that all the old code is still active, only the build warning is silenced. Exactly what we want to avoid, bigger code not better code. I hope we can clean this up in a follow-up patch.
I would suggest that instead of complaining and accusing people of things, you would be better to sit down and take a hard look at it. It is not that difficult to figure out, if you have a debug UART or JTAG. It looks like 50% of iMX6 boards enable DM_SERIAL so it cannot be impossible. There really is nothing magical about driver model. It is just a model for how drivers fit together. It still runs the same code, just organised in a somewhat more rational way, at the cost of some extra complexity and code size.
Regards, Simon
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:20:43PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Sören,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 15:51, Sören Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
Hi Simon,
On 14.03.22 20:37, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 13:22, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote: > ... to get rid of the build warning. > Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. > Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost. > > Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de > --- > Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de > Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com > Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com > Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de > > The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board > specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages > without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device > tree node did not help. You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
If you have a pinctrl driver it will be used. I don't really understand your problem.
My problem is that pin initializations come too late (just before the "Core" boot message). Apparently I have a pinctrl driver, otherwise the pin init would not be done at all, I guess.
Who knows, why don't you check?
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Well the pinctrl will be triggered before relocation and after, if enabled. We could solve that but have not tried.
My problem is not runtime, if initialization is done twice from the same code this is probably OK. In my setup pins are _not_ initialized before relocation, when not done in board_early_init_f() "by hand", which I would like to avoid since this results in code duplication. Do I need to enable the before-relocation part somewhere? When yes, how exactly? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart DT node (as documented) did not work.
You need your driver to be bound before relocation (so needs the tag as you say). The infrastructure is all there and works on other boards. It is strange that you don't use SPL, though. How do you init the DRAM?
Probably through the DCD script that CONFIG_IMX_CONFIG sets.
You could enable the debug UART as a starting point, if you don't have JTAG debugging, since that will allow you to figure out why your pinctrl driver is not being run.
In the unlikely event that it helps, see the diff below that was enough to get the serial going on an mx6 board in SPL about 2 years ago (so the tags should work the same for U-Boot proper before relocation).
If the error checking is working correctly and people have not just make drivers return 0 when something goes wrong, you can normally figure out which driver is missing.
new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b83881780c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-snappermx6-u-boot.dtsi @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +/*
- Copyright 2020 Designa Electronics Ltd
- */
+/ {
- chosen {
stdout-path = &uart5;- };
+};
+&aips2 {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+&soc {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+&uart5 {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+}; diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi index e4daf150881..33e636b2d31 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ interrupts = <0 94 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; };
- soc {
- soc: soc { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "simple-bus";
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ }; };
aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */
aips2: aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */ compatible = "fsl,aips-bus", "simple-bus"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>;Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
If you want to use pinctrl in SPL, you can do all of this cleanly. If you have code-size constraints, then you may want to do something like rockchip, where only specific peripherals are supported in pinctrl in SPL.
I do not use SPL, only U-Boot proper.
You could look at firefly-rk3288 (or bob/coral/jerry) which I believe is done fully with driver model.
I want a proper solution without SPL, see above.
Perhaps Tom has a better handle on the problem.
"Great." You are forcing everyone in DM conversions with deadlines. This conversion does not work as documented. When asked for help you only provide answers to different questions than what was asked. And you conclude with "create your own solution or ask someone else", at least this is as I understand this.
Your expectations are way out of whack. U-Boot has supported driver model for serial for 8 years. U-Boot relies on people digging in and figuring out their own problems. I have converted more than a dozen boards to driver model (I am not actually sure how many) but I am just one person and there are over a thousand boards.
All this while DM conversions only bring additional work for maintainers of existing boards, DM conversions always come with increased code size, and only in the best case everything works like before.
On the other hand you complain about slow conversions and maintainers that wait for the very end of the deadline. Do you see the relation?
So I ask you again, Simon. How is this DM_SERIAL conversion supposed to be done properly? In general and especially for imx boards without SPL? Or is all this as incomplete as it looks like? In this case the conversion probably will again last until the end of the real deadline, about 3 years from now. And it will be done as in this patch (with your Reviewed-by blessing), papering over the fact that all the old code is still active, only the build warning is silenced. Exactly what we want to avoid, bigger code not better code. I hope we can clean this up in a follow-up patch.
I would suggest that instead of complaining and accusing people of things, you would be better to sit down and take a hard look at it. It is not that difficult to figure out, if you have a debug UART or JTAG. It looks like 50% of iMX6 boards enable DM_SERIAL so it cannot be impossible. There really is nothing magical about driver model. It is just a model for how drivers fit together. It still runs the same code, just organised in a somewhat more rational way, at the cost of some extra complexity and code size.
Again, DM_SERIAL can be enabled on the board as he's already shown by setting two options, which silences the warning, increases the size and doesn't make anything better. That's likely what the other boards are doing, or they're just having some console output be missing. What would need to be set where, so that serial output isn't missing, without having to manually call setup_iomux_uart() like so many imx platforms are doing.
Hi Tom,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 16:38, Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:20:43PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Sören,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 15:51, Sören Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
Hi Simon,
On 14.03.22 20:37, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 13:22, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
On 14.03.22 19:28, Tom Rini wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:24:36PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > Hi Soeren, > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote: >> ... to get rid of the build warning. >> Unfortunately we still need the board specific serial pin init code. >> Otherwise the first boot messages over the serial console are lost. >> >> Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de >> --- >> Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de >> Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com >> Cc: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com >> Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org >> Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de >> >> The whole purpose of DM is somewhat defeated when we still need board >> specific initializations. Any ideas how we can get all boot messages >> without board specific inits? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart device >> tree node did not help. > You can put that in your serial driver, perhaps? Or in the initial SoC > init code?
Why should I do so? The whole point of DM is initializing devices from DT. And when I wish to do so pre-relocation, it is advertised in DM to add 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' for this purpose. I tried, it did not work. And this is nothing closely related to the serial driver itself, I just want the pin setup running pre-relocation and not as late as it is running now under DM_SERIAL.
If you have a pinctrl driver it will be used. I don't really understand your problem.
My problem is that pin initializations come too late (just before the "Core" boot message). Apparently I have a pinctrl driver, otherwise the pin init would not be done at all, I guess.
Who knows, why don't you check?
I also do not want to run this pin setup twice (first in board or SoC code and again by DM_SERIAL later). Maybe I miss something obvious, but duplication of the setup code cannot be a proper solution.
Well the pinctrl will be triggered before relocation and after, if enabled. We could solve that but have not tried.
My problem is not runtime, if initialization is done twice from the same code this is probably OK. In my setup pins are _not_ initialized before relocation, when not done in board_early_init_f() "by hand", which I would like to avoid since this results in code duplication. Do I need to enable the before-relocation part somewhere? When yes, how exactly? 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;' in the uart DT node (as documented) did not work.
You need your driver to be bound before relocation (so needs the tag as you say). The infrastructure is all there and works on other boards. It is strange that you don't use SPL, though. How do you init the DRAM?
Probably through the DCD script that CONFIG_IMX_CONFIG sets.
You could enable the debug UART as a starting point, if you don't have JTAG debugging, since that will allow you to figure out why your pinctrl driver is not being run.
In the unlikely event that it helps, see the diff below that was enough to get the serial going on an mx6 board in SPL about 2 years ago (so the tags should work the same for U-Boot proper before relocation).
If the error checking is working correctly and people have not just make drivers return 0 when something goes wrong, you can normally figure out which driver is missing.
new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b83881780c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-snappermx6-u-boot.dtsi @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +/*
- Copyright 2020 Designa Electronics Ltd
- */
+/ {
- chosen {
stdout-path = &uart5;- };
+};
+&aips2 {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+&soc {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+};
+&uart5 {
- u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
+}; diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi index e4daf150881..33e636b2d31 100644 --- a/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ interrupts = <0 94 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>; };
- soc {
- soc: soc { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; compatible = "simple-bus";
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ }; };
aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */
aips2: aips-bus@2100000 { /* AIPS2 */ compatible = "fsl,aips-bus", "simple-bus"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>;> Another recent way (in -next) is to use events to monitor the > EVT_DM_PRE_PROBE event for the serial driver.
I can monitor the probe event, OK. But how can this solve my problem? Again, maybe I miss something obvious, please tell me when I do so.
It's just the same thing every single imx platform is doing.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. The reference platform for my board is mx6sabresd. This is not converted to DM_SERIAL yet. Most (?) imx boards use SPL, pin setup is different there. I looked into imx boards with DM_SERIAL. They either removed the board-specific setup code (which results in missing early boot messages: u-boot version, board name, DDR size, ...) or they are playing tricks in SPL (not the clean and easy solution that DM promises). Maybe I missed a better reference for the DM_SERIAL conversion without SPL. Can you point me to such board?
If you want to use pinctrl in SPL, you can do all of this cleanly. If you have code-size constraints, then you may want to do something like rockchip, where only specific peripherals are supported in pinctrl in SPL.
I do not use SPL, only U-Boot proper.
You could look at firefly-rk3288 (or bob/coral/jerry) which I believe is done fully with driver model.
I want a proper solution without SPL, see above.
Perhaps Tom has a better handle on the problem.
"Great." You are forcing everyone in DM conversions with deadlines. This conversion does not work as documented. When asked for help you only provide answers to different questions than what was asked. And you conclude with "create your own solution or ask someone else", at least this is as I understand this.
Your expectations are way out of whack. U-Boot has supported driver model for serial for 8 years. U-Boot relies on people digging in and figuring out their own problems. I have converted more than a dozen boards to driver model (I am not actually sure how many) but I am just one person and there are over a thousand boards.
All this while DM conversions only bring additional work for maintainers of existing boards, DM conversions always come with increased code size, and only in the best case everything works like before.
On the other hand you complain about slow conversions and maintainers that wait for the very end of the deadline. Do you see the relation?
So I ask you again, Simon. How is this DM_SERIAL conversion supposed to be done properly? In general and especially for imx boards without SPL? Or is all this as incomplete as it looks like? In this case the conversion probably will again last until the end of the real deadline, about 3 years from now. And it will be done as in this patch (with your Reviewed-by blessing), papering over the fact that all the old code is still active, only the build warning is silenced. Exactly what we want to avoid, bigger code not better code. I hope we can clean this up in a follow-up patch.
I would suggest that instead of complaining and accusing people of things, you would be better to sit down and take a hard look at it. It is not that difficult to figure out, if you have a debug UART or JTAG. It looks like 50% of iMX6 boards enable DM_SERIAL so it cannot be impossible. There really is nothing magical about driver model. It is just a model for how drivers fit together. It still runs the same code, just organised in a somewhat more rational way, at the cost of some extra complexity and code size.
Again, DM_SERIAL can be enabled on the board as he's already shown by setting two options, which silences the warning, increases the size and doesn't make anything better. That's likely what the other boards are doing, or they're just having some console output be missing. What would need to be set where, so that serial output isn't missing, without having to manually call setup_iomux_uart() like so many imx platforms are doing.
Probably missing soc/clock node as per my patch above. But it needs investigation.
Regards, Simon
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
Again, DM_SERIAL can be enabled on the board as he's already shown by setting two options, which silences the warning, increases the size and doesn't make anything better. That's likely what the other boards are doing, or they're just having some console output be missing. What would need to be set where, so that serial output isn't missing, without having to manually call setup_iomux_uart() like so many imx platforms are doing.
Does the attached patch work for you?
I tested a similar patch on warp7 and it works fine here and the early U-Boot messages are shown.
Hi Fabio,
On 15.03.22 00:16, Fabio Estevam wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
Again, DM_SERIAL can be enabled on the board as he's already shown by setting two options, which silences the warning, increases the size and doesn't make anything better. That's likely what the other boards are doing, or they're just having some console output be missing. What would need to be set where, so that serial output isn't missing, without having to manually call setup_iomux_uart() like so many imx platforms are doing.
Does the attached patch work for you?
I tested a similar patch on warp7 and it works fine here and the early U-Boot messages are shown.
This looks quite similar to my first attempt on this, but with additional pre-reloc attributes on aips1, pinctrl_uart1, and soc. Quite promising, probably exactly the right solution that I was looking for.
I promise to test this still this week, but may not be able to do so before the weekend.
Thanks for working on this, Soeren
Hi Fabio,
On 15.03.22 21:56, Soeren Moch wrote:
Hi Fabio,
On 15.03.22 00:16, Fabio Estevam wrote:
Hi Soeren,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
Again, DM_SERIAL can be enabled on the board as he's already shown by setting two options, which silences the warning, increases the size and doesn't make anything better. That's likely what the other boards are doing, or they're just having some console output be missing. What would need to be set where, so that serial output isn't missing, without having to manually call setup_iomux_uart() like so many imx platforms are doing.
Does the attached patch work for you?
I tested a similar patch on warp7 and it works fine here and the early U-Boot messages are shown.
This looks quite similar to my first attempt on this, but with additional pre-reloc attributes on aips1, pinctrl_uart1, and soc. Quite promising, probably exactly the right solution that I was looking for.
I promise to test this still this week, but may not be able to do so before the weekend.
Your patch works great, I already sent my Tested-by to patchwork. So my patch should be dropped in favour of your one, but I saw that my patch already is marked 'Superseded'.
Regards, Soeren
Thanks for working on this, Soeren
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Soeren Moch wrote:
This saves about 12 kBytes image size and helps to stay within the size limit.
Suggested-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 02:26, Soeren Moch smoch@web.de wrote:
This saves about 12 kBytes image size and helps to stay within the size limit.
Suggested-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com Signed-off-by: Soeren Moch smoch@web.de
Cc: Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de Cc: Fabio Estevam festevam@gmail.com Cc: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Unfortunately we already are at the size limit for U-Boot v2022.04-rc3. Maybe Tom can pick up this patch directly, otherwise it's also fine for me to take this through the imx tree.
configs/tbs2910_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
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