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Sumit Gargbf95d172022-07-12 12:42:12 +05301.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
2.. sectionauthor:: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
3
4QCS404 EVB
5==========
6
7About this
8----------
9This document describes the information about Qualcomm QCS404 evaluation board
10and it's usage steps.
11
Bhupesh Sharma20cbfd62023-04-20 16:58:48 +053012The current boot flow support loading u-boot as an Android boot image via
13Qualcomm's UEFI-based ABL (Android) Bootloader.
Sumit Gargbf95d172022-07-12 12:42:12 +053014
15Installation
16------------
17Build
18^^^^^
19Setup ``CROSS_COMPILE`` for aarch64 and build U-Boot for your board::
20
21 $ export CROSS_COMPILE=<aarch64 toolchain prefix>
22 $ make qcs404evb_defconfig
23 $ make
24
25This will build ``u-boot.bin`` in the configured output directory.
26
27Generate FIT image
28^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
29A ``qcs404.its`` file can be found in ``board/qualcomm/qcs404-evb/`` directory.
30It expects a folder as ``qcs404_imgs/`` in the main directory containing
31pre-built kernel, dts and ramdisk images. See ``qcs404.its`` for full path to
32images.
33
34- Build FIT image::
35
36 mkimage -f qcs404-evb.its qcs404-evb.itb
37
38Pack android boot image
39^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
40We'll assemble android boot image with ``u-boot.bin`` instead of linux kernel,
41and FIT image instead of ``initramfs``. Android bootloader expect gzipped kernel
42with appended dtb, so let's mimic linux to satisfy stock bootloader:
43
44- create dump dtb::
45
46 workdir=/tmp/prepare_payload
47 mkdir -p "$workdir"
48 cd "$workdir"
49 mock_dtb="$workdir"/payload_mock.dtb
50
51 dtc -I dts -O dtb -o "$mock_dtb" << EOF
52 /dts-v1/;
53 / {
54 model = "Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. QCS404 EVB 4000";
55 compatible = "qcom,qcs404-evb-4000", "qcom,qcs404-evb", "qcom,qcs404";
56
57 #address-cells = <2>;
58 #size-cells = <2>;
59
60 memory@80000000 {
61 device_type = "memory";
62 /* We expect the bootloader to fill in the size */
63 reg = <0 0x80000000 0 0>;
64 };
65
66 chosen { };
67 };
68 EOF
69
70- gzip u-boot ``gzip u-boot.bin``
71- append dtb to gzipped u-boot: ``cat u-boot.bin.gz "$mock_dtb" > u-boot.bin.gz-dtb``
72
73Now we've got everything to build android boot image:::
74
75 mkbootimg --kernel u-boot.bin.gz-dtb \
76 --ramdisk qcs404-evb.itb --pagesize 4096 \
77 --base 0x80000000 --output boot.img
78
79Flash image on qcs404-evb using fastboot method.