From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
This mode of operation is a very simple wrapper around tegrarcm, which
eliminates the need to remember which BCT to use for each configuration.
This can be useful for quickly testing changes to U-Boot without writing
it to flash every time.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
README-user.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++--
tegra-uboot-flasher | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README-user.txt b/README-user.txt
index 249a096..b653144 100644
--- a/README-user.txt
+++ b/README-user.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ You may find a list of valid values for configname by executing:
tegra-uboot-flasher list-configs
-Simple Usage
-============
+Simple Usage - Flashing
+=======================
To flash a board, connect a USB cable from your host PC to the Tegra device,
place that board into USB recovery mode, and execute the following as root
@@ -35,6 +35,19 @@ flashed boot image, and the system will proceed to boot normally. Depending
on the board and U-Boot support, the flashing process may be observed via the
debug serial port, or on a built-in LCD panel.
+Simple Usage - Testing U-Boot
+=============================
+
+If you simply want to download an unmodified U-Boot to the Tegra device and
+execute it, execute the following as root on the host machine:
+
+tegra-uboot-flasher exec CONFIG
+
+This can be useful for quickly testing changes to U-Boot without writing it
+to flash every time. This mode of operation is a very simple wrapper around
+tegrarcm, which eliminates the need to remember which BCT to use for each
+board configuration.
+
Advanced Options
================
diff --git a/tegra-uboot-flasher b/tegra-uboot-flasher
index 1bdf944..ac727a0 100755
--- a/tegra-uboot-flasher
+++ b/tegra-uboot-flasher
@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ gen_flashcmds = {
'spi': gen_flashcmd_spi,
}
+def get_loadaddr():
+ # 0x00108000 is CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE in U-Boot, minus RAM base
+ return soc['ram-base'] + 0x00108000
+
+def gen_tegrarcm_cmd(bootloader, loadaddr):
+ if type(loadaddr) != str:
+ loadaddr = "0x%08x" % loadaddr
+ return 'tegrarcm --bct=' + bct + ' --bootloader=' + bootloader + ' --loadaddr=' + loadaddr
+
def find_config_dir():
if not configs.has_key(args.configname):
print 'Unknown config "%s"' % args.configname
@@ -130,7 +139,7 @@ def func_flash():
print 'pad_size %d 0x%x' % (pad_size, pad_size)
# 0x00108000 is CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE in U-Boot, minus RAM base
- loadaddr = soc['ram-base'] + 0x00108000
+ loadaddr = get_loadaddr()
flash_image_addr = loadaddr + padded_size
if args.debug:
print 'flash_image_addr %d 0x%x' % (flash_image_addr, flash_image_addr)
@@ -185,7 +194,7 @@ def func_flash():
shutil.copyfileobj(open(flash_img, 'rb'), f)
f.close()
- cmd = 'tegrarcm --bct=' + bct + ' --bootloader=' + uboot_flasher + ' --loadaddr=0x%08x' % loadaddr
+ cmd = gen_tegrarcm_cmd(uboot_flasher, loadaddr)
flasher_sh = os.path.join(workdir, 'flasher.sh')
f = open(flasher_sh, 'wt')
@@ -206,6 +215,22 @@ def func_flash():
else:
rmtree(workdir)
+def func_exec():
+ find_config_dir()
+
+ if args.bootloader:
+ bootloader = args.bootloader
+ else:
+ bootloader = os.path.join(out_board_dir, 'u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin')
+
+ if args.loadaddr:
+ loadaddr = args.loadaddr
+ else:
+ loadaddr = get_loadaddr()
+
+ cmd = gen_tegrarcm_cmd(bootloader, loadaddr)
+ run(scripts_dir, cmd)
+
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Execute a bootloader on a ' +
'Tegra board, possibly modifying it prior to download so as to execute ' +
'commands, such as writing an image to flash.')
@@ -234,8 +259,22 @@ parser_flash.add_argument('--flash-image', type=str,
help='The flash image to write, instead of U-Boot itself')
parser_flash.add_argument('--gen-only', action='store_true',
help='Just create the work-dir; don\'t actually flash the image')
-parser_flash.add_argument('configname', metavar='CONFIG', type=str,
- help='The configuration name of the board')
+
+parser_exec = subparsers.add_parser('exec',
+ help='Download and execute an unmodified bootloader binary, named ' +
+ 'u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin by default. This can be useful to simply test ' +
+ 'a U-Boot build without flashing it, or to download something other ' +
+ 'than U-Boot')
+parser_exec.set_defaults(func = func_exec)
+parser_exec.add_argument('--bootloader', type=str,
+ help='The bootloader to download. Defaults to u-boot-dtb-tegra.bin in ' +
+ 'the data directory')
+parser_exec.add_argument('--loadaddr', type=str,
+ help='Load address for the bootloader binary')
+
+for p in (parser_flash, parser_exec):
+ p.add_argument('configname', metavar='CONFIG', type=str,
+ help='The configuration name of the board')
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.debug: print args
--
1.8.1.5
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