U-Boot for Khadas VIM3 (A311D)
Khadas VIM3 is a Single Board Computer manufactured by Shenzhen Wesion Technology Co. Ltd with the following specifications:
Amlogic A311D Arm Cortex-A53 dual-core + Cortex-A73 quad-core SoC
4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM
Gigabit Ethernet
HDMI 2.1 display
40-pin GPIO header
1 x USB 3.0 Host, 1 x USB 2.0 Host
eMMC, microSD
M.2
Infrared receiver
Schematics are available on the manufacturer website.
PCIe Setup
The on-board MCU can mux the PCIe/USB3.0 shared differential lines using a FUSB340TMX USB 3.1 SuperSpeed Data Switch between a USB3.0 Type-A connector and an M.2 Key M slot. The PHY driving these differential lines is shared between the USB3.0 controller and the PCIe Controller, thus only a single controller can use it.
To setup for PCIe run the following commands from U-Boot then power-cycle the board:
i2c dev i2c@5000
i2c mw 0x18 0x33 1
To revert to USB3.0 run the following commands from U-Boot then power-cycle the board:
i2c dev i2c@5000
i2c mw 0x18 0x33 0
U-Boot Compilation
$ export CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-none-elf-
$ make khadas-vim3_defconfig
$ make
U-Boot Signing with Pre-Built FIP repo
$ git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip --depth=1
$ cd amlogic-boot-fip
$ mkdir my-output-dir
$ ./build-fip.sh khadas-vim3 /path/to/u-boot/u-boot.bin my-output-dir
U-Boot Manual Signing
Amlogic does not provide sources for the firmware and tools needed to create a bootloader image so it is necessary to obtain binaries from sources published by the board vendor:
$ wget https://releases.linaro.org/archive/13.11/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
$ wget https://releases.linaro.org/archive/13.11/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
$ tar xvfJ gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
$ tar xvfJ gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz
$ export PATH=$PWD/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux/bin:$PWD/gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2013.11_linux/bin:$PATH
$ DIR=vim3-u-boot
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khadas/u-boot.git -b khadas-vims-v2015.01 $DIR
$ cd vim3-u-boot
$ make kvim3_defconfig
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-none-elf-
$ export UBOOTDIR=$PWD
Go back to the mainline U-Boot source tree then:
$ mkdir fip
$ wget https://github.com/BayLibre/u-boot/releases/download/v2017.11-libretech-cc/blx_fix_g12a.sh -O fip/blx_fix.sh
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/build/scp_task/bl301.bin fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/build/board/khadas/kvim3/firmware/acs.bin fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/bl2.bin fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/bl30.bin fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/bl31.img fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/ddr3_1d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/ddr4_1d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/ddr4_2d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/diag_lpddr4.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/lpddr3_1d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/lpddr4_1d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/lpddr4_2d.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/piei.fw fip/
$ cp $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_ddr.fw fip/
$ cp u-boot.bin fip/bl33.bin
$ bash fip/blx_fix.sh \
fip/bl30.bin \
fip/zero_tmp \
fip/bl30_zero.bin \
fip/bl301.bin \
fip/bl301_zero.bin \
fip/bl30_new.bin \
bl30
$ bash fip/blx_fix.sh \
fip/bl2.bin \
fip/zero_tmp \
fip/bl2_zero.bin \
fip/acs.bin \
fip/bl21_zero.bin \
fip/bl2_new.bin \
bl2
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bl30sig --input fip/bl30_new.bin \
--output fip/bl30_new.bin.g12a.enc \
--level v3
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bl3sig --input fip/bl30_new.bin.g12a.enc \
--output fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
--level v3 --type bl30
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bl3sig --input fip/bl31.img \
--output fip/bl31.img.enc \
--level v3 --type bl31
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bl3sig --input fip/bl33.bin --compress lz4 \
--output fip/bl33.bin.enc \
--level v3 --type bl33 --compress lz4
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bl2sig --input fip/bl2_new.bin \
--output fip/bl2.n.bin.sig
$ $UBOOTDIR/fip/g12b/aml_encrypt_g12b --bootmk \
--output fip/u-boot.bin \
--bl2 fip/bl2.n.bin.sig \
--bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
--bl31 fip/bl31.img.enc \
--bl33 fip/bl33.bin.enc \
--ddrfw1 fip/ddr4_1d.fw \
--ddrfw2 fip/ddr4_2d.fw \
--ddrfw3 fip/ddr3_1d.fw \
--ddrfw4 fip/piei.fw \
--ddrfw5 fip/lpddr4_1d.fw \
--ddrfw6 fip/lpddr4_2d.fw \
--ddrfw7 fip/diag_lpddr4.fw \
--ddrfw8 fip/aml_ddr.fw \
--ddrfw9 fip/lpddr3_1d.fw \
--level v3
Then write U-Boot to SD or eMMC with:
$ DEV=/dev/boot_device
$ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 skip=1 seek=1
$ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=440