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| How to Update U-Boot on Pico-imx6ul board
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| -----------------------------------------
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| 
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| Required software on the host PC:
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| 
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| - imx_usb_loader: https://github.com/boundarydevices/imx_usb_loader
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| 
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| - dfu-util: http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/releases/
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| 
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| Build U-Boot for Pico:
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| 
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| $ make mrproper
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| $ make pico-imx6ul_defconfig
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| $ make
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| 
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| This generates the SPL and u-boot-dtb.img binaries.
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| 
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| 1. Loading U-Boot via USB Serial Download Protocol
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| 
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| Note: This method is convenient for development purposes.
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| If the eMMC has already a U-Boot flashed with DFU support then
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| the user can go to step 2 below in order to update U-Boot.
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| 
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| Put pico board in USB download mode (refer to the document
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| https://www.nxp.com/files-static/32bit/doc/quick_start_guide/PICO-IMX6UL-QSG.pdf
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| Figure 6a at page 7).
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| 
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| Connect a USB to serial adapter between the host PC and pico.
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| 
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| Connect a USB cable between the OTG pico port and the host PC.
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| 
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| Open a terminal program such as minicom.
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| 
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| Copy SPL and u-boot-dtb.img to the imx_usb_loader folder.
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| 
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| Load the SPL binary via USB:
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| 
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| $ sudo ./imx_usb SPL
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| 
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| Load the u-boot-dtb.img binary via USB:
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| $ sudo ./imx_usb u-boot-dtb.img
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| 
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| Then U-Boot starts and its messages appear in the console program.
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| 
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| Use the default environment variables:
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| 
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| => env default -f -a
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| => saveenv
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| 
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| 2. Flashing U-Boot into the eMMC
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| 
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| Run the DFU agent so we can flash the new images using dfu-util tool:
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| => dfu 0 mmc 0
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| 
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| Flash SPL and u-boot-dtb.img into the eMMC running the following commands on a PC:
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| 
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| $ sudo dfu-util -D SPL -a spl
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| 
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| $ sudo dfu-util -D u-boot-dtb.img -a u-boot
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| 
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| Remove power from the pico board.
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| 
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| Put pico board into normal boot mode.
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| 
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| Power up the board and the new updated U-Boot should boot from eMMC.
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| 
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| Booting in Falcon mode
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| ======================
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| 
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| Generate a uImage kernel:
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| 
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| $ make imx_v6_v7_defconfig (Using the default imx_v6_v7_defconfig configuration
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| just for an example. In order to boot faster the user should customize the
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| defconfig by only enabling the minimal required drivers).
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| 
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| $ make -j4 uImage LOADADDR=0x80008000
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| 
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| $ cp arch/arm/boot/uImage /tftpboot
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| $ cp arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6ul-pico-hobbit.dtb /tftpboot
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| 
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| In the U-Boot prompt:
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| 
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| Setup the server and board IP addresses:
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| => setenv serverip 192.168.0.10
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| => setenv ipaddr 192.168.0.11
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| 
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| Get the dtb file:
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| => tftp ${fdt_addr} imx6ul-pico-hobbit.dtb
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| 
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| Get the kernel:
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| => tftp ${loadaddr} uImage
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| 
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| Write the kernel at 2MB offset:
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| => mmc write ${loadaddr} 0x1000 0x5000
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| 
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| Setup the bootargs:
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| => setenv bootargs 'console=ttymxc5,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait rw'
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| 
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| Prepare args:
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| => spl export fdt ${loadaddr} - ${fdt_addr}
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| ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 82000000 ...
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|    Image Name:   Linux-4.19.0-rc2-next-20180905-0
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|    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
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|    Data Size:    8365608 Bytes = 8 MiB
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|    Load Address: 80008000
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|    Entry Point:  80008000
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|    Verifying Checksum ... OK
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| ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 83000000
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|    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x83000000
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|    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
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|    Using Device Tree in place at 83000000, end 83009c63
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| subcommand not supported
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| subcommand not supported
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|    Using Device Tree in place at 83000000, end 8300cc63
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| Argument image is now in RAM: 0x83000000
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| 
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| Write 1MB of args data (0x800 sectors) to 1MB offset (0x800 sectors):
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| 
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| => mmc write ${fdt_addr} 0x800 0x800
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| 
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| In order to boot with Falcon mode, activate the CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
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| option in the defconfig
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| 
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| --- a/configs/pico-hobbit-imx6ul_defconfig
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| +++ b/configs/pico-hobbit-imx6ul_defconfig
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| @@ -53,3 +53,4 @@ CONFIG_USB_GADGET_VENDOR_NUM=0x0525
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|  CONFIG_USB_GADGET_PRODUCT_NUM=0xa4a5
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|  CONFIG_CI_UDC=y
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|  CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT=y
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| +CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT=y
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| 
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| Then rebuild U-Boot:
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| 
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| $ make pico-hobbit-imx6ul_defconfig
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| $ make -j4
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| 
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| Launch UMS:
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| => ums 0 mmc 0
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| 
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| Flash the new binaries:
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| 
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| $ sudo dd if=SPL of=/dev/sdX bs=1k seek=1; sync
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| $ sudo dd if=u-boot-dtb.img  of=/dev/sdX bs=1k seek=69; sync
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| 
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| And then SPL binary will load and jump directly to the kernel:
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| 
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| U-Boot SPL 2018.09-rc2-00156-g8c46f15-dirty (Sep 05 2018 - 16:24:05 -0300)
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| Trying to boot from MMC1
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| [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
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| [    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.0-rc2-next-20180905-00001-gb805e2d (fabio@fabio-Latitude-E5450) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)) #533 SMP Wed Sep 5 16:21:03 -03 2018
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| [    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
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| [    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
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| [    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
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| [    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Technexion Pico i.MX6UL Board
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| [    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
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| [    0.000000] cma: Reserved 64 MiB at 0x8c000000
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| ...
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