[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] rockchip: rk3399: rockpro64: enable force power on reset workaround

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Thu May 19 08:42:56 PDT 2022


On Thu, 19 May 2022, Peter Geis wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:56 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > > > It's not clear how this issue (present 3 years ago) was finally
> > > > > > resolved.  From the thread, it looks as if the fix might have made its
> > > > > > way into ATF, but I'm 87.6% sure ATF is not running on this platform
> > > > > > (yet).
> > > > >
> > > > > The rk3399 SoC has a hardware bug where the power domains are not
> > > > > reset upon a soft reset. This leads to situations like this one where
> > > > > power domains are shut down during shutdown but aren't restored on
> > > > > reboot.
> > > >
> > > > I assume this isn't something we can patch in the kernel driver?
> > >
> > > As far as I know it's being worked on by others, I have some ideas for
> > > this as well but I've been focused on rk356x lately.
> >
> > Thanks for the update.
> >
> > > > > Mainline TF-A was patched to force all power domains online
> > > > > when a soft reboot is triggered, which solved that issue.
> > > >
> > > > Okay, this is what I figured.
> > > >
> > > > > What particular issues are you having initializing modern u-boot on
> > > > > this device?
> > > >
> > > > This is the output: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/d5DmsSBnrR/
> > > >
> > > > Speaking with one of the guys who supports RockPi 4 in AOSP, he
> > > > suspects the DDR settings.  Apparently settings for older SoCs
> > > > sometimes get clobbered when support for newer SoCs is added.
> > >
> > > The rk3399 TPL code is specific to the rk3399 and it really hasn't
> > > been touched much recently. I'm using the latest Mainline U-Boot on
> > > both my Rockpro64 and Pinephone-Pro. I don't see TF-A being loaded,
> > > which should happen between:
> > >
> > > Trying to boot from BOOTROM
> > > Returning to boot ROM...
> > >
> > > Otherwise it just looks like the TPL code doesn't like being in a
> > > single channel configuration. Does the 2GB model just forgo the second
> > > ram chip? Or is this actually a 4GB model and it isn't detecting the
> > > second chip in both downstream and mainline? Could you include the
> > > TPL/SPL portion of downstream's output?
> >
> > TPL/SPL are mostly silent on the downstream build:
> >
> > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/m2bBdjF8Wq/
> >
> > Not sure if it helps at all, but ArmBian is pretty noisy:
> >
> > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/fdPjmmqBDM/
> 
> Weird that downstream and mainline are being built with none of the
> debug stuff enabled. Armbian clearly shows the initial setup occuring
> correctly, and that it's a 4GB board. It's using both the Rockchip
> miniloader with a Rockchip TF-A blob as well.
> 
> >
> > > > I am yet to investigate the u-boot story in any detail.
> > > >
> > > > It's on my TODO list for today.
> > > >
> > > > > Is there a particular reason it isn't using Mainline TF-A?
> > > >
> > > > We're not using Trusted Firmware yet.
> > >
> > > This platform does not work at all without TF-A. Optee is optional.
> > > Either you are using the downstream blob from Rockchip or Mainline
> > > built yourself. Personally I prefer using Mainline everything. If you
> > > build Mainline U-Boot without TF-A it will throw a warning at the end
> > > that says the created binary is non-functional.
> >
> > Right.  Played a lot with this today.
> >
> > Our build was using TF-A which was built-in to the primary loader.
> >
> > I had 2 interesting results today.  No idea how to explain them.
> >
> > First one was with Mainline u-boot and Mainline TF-A, which found, but
> > was seemingly unable to boot the kernel:
> >
> > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/9HRhPyfjYK/
> >
> > The second interesting result I had was using our downstream u-boot
> > with Mainline TF-A.  It booted perfectly from cold, but managed to get
> > stuck in the TPL on soft reboot in a very similar way to the one I
> > reported earlier when not booting with TF-A ("Channel 1: col error"):
> 
> 
> Mainline TF-A defaults to 115200 for its uart messages, so you need to
> either A. pass the uart config from U-Boot to TF-A with a platform
> config option (unreliable in my experience), B. change U-Boot to
> 115200, or C. change TF-A to 1.5M (the path I take). Your mainline

Hopefully this is enough:

diff --git a/plat/rockchip/rk3399/rk3399_def.h b/plat/rockchip/rk3399/rk3399_def.h
index ba83242eb..24ad94ae7 100644
--- a/plat/rockchip/rk3399/rk3399_def.h
+++ b/plat/rockchip/rk3399/rk3399_def.h
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
 /**************************************************************************
  * UART related constants
  **************************************************************************/
-#define RK3399_BAUDRATE                        115200
+//#define RK3399_BAUDRATE                      115200
+#define RK3399_BAUDRATE                        1500000
 #define RK3399_UART_CLOCK              24000000
 
 /******************************************************************************

> hang is exactly where you expect to hang with a non-functional TF-A. I
> enable some additional prints in my U-Boot tree to know exactly what
> gets loaded during SPL. There are also debug prints you can enable in
> TPL to get the setup results.

Would you be kind enough to point me to the u-boot/TF-A prints please?

> Would you be willing to run make savedefconfig from your mainline
> setup and share the result?

u-boot or TF-A?

> > https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/hwmBzxDBgc/
> >
> > Thanks again for your insight.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Lee
> >

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