Solutions to fix the problem which u-boot failed to load the kernel on ast2500 EVB

[Howard Chiu]

Hi OpenBMC team,



I had identified the root cause of the problem reported by dekriea on discord [1].

We have a 32MB NOR flash on ast2500 EVB, which means the kernel image will be placed at offset 512 KB by default, but u-boot is trying to load kernel image from the offset 1024 KB due to the incorrect setting in evb-ast2500_defconfig.

The evb-ast2500_defconfig was ported from Aspeed SDK, so the partition layout is different from OpenBMC 32MB flash layout which is defined in image-type-phosphor.bbclass[2] and openbmc-flash-layout.dtsi[3].



So we have three solutions for this issue:

1. Revise the CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET/SIZE in evb-ast2500_defconfig of u-boot v2019.04.

2. Add .cfg to override CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET/SIZE in machine evb-ast2500.

3. Add an ast2500_openbmc_defconfig for evb-ast2500 machine which is similar to ast2600[4].



Which solution is the community preferred?



Reference:

[1] https://discord.com/channels/775381525260664832/922871693008068638/960822924867145728

[2] https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/blob/master/meta-phosphor/classes/image_types_phosphor.bbclass#L40-L52

[3] https://github.com/openbmc/linux/blob/dev-5.15/arch/arm/boot/dts/openbmc-flash-layout.dtsi

[4] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2022-February/029334.html



B.R.

Howard
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