Poplar board
Board Information
Developed by HiSilicon, the board features the Hi3798C V200 with an integrated quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 processor and high performance Mali T720 GPU, making it capable of running any commercial set-top solution based on Linux or Android. Its high performance specification also supports a premium user experience with up to H.265 HEVC decoding of 4K video at 60 frames per second.
SOC Hisilicon Hi3798CV200
CPU Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 64 bit
DRAM DDR3/3L/4 SDRAM interface, maximum 32-bit data width 2 GB
USB Two USB 2.0 ports One USB 3.0 ports
CONSOLE USB-micro port for console support
ETHERNET 1 GBe Ethernet
PCIE One PCIe 2.0 interfaces
JTAG 8-Pin JTAG
EXPANSION INTERFACE Linaro 96Boards Low Speed Expansion slot
DIMENSION Standard 160×120 mm 96Boards Enterprice Edition form factor
WIFI 802.11AC 2*2 with Bluetooth
CONNECTORS One connector for Smart Card One connector for TSI
Build instructions
Note
U-Boot has a strong dependency with the l-loader and the ARM trusted firmware repositories.
The boot sequence is:
l-loader --> arm_trusted_firmware --> U-Boot
U-Boot needs to be aware of the BL31 runtime location and size to avoid writing over it. Currently, BL31 is being placed below the kernel text offset (check poplar.c) but this could change in the future.
The current version of U-Boot has been tested with
https://github.com/Linaro/poplar-l-loader.git:
commit f0988698dcc5c08bd0a8f50aa0457e138a5f438c Author: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Date: Fri Jun 16 08:57:59 2017 -0500 l-loader: use external memory region definitions The ARM Trusted Firmware code now has a header file that collects all the definitions for the memory regions used for its boot stages. Include that file where needed, and use the definitions found therein Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
https://github.com/Linaro/poplar-arm-trusted-firmware.git:
commit 6ac42dd3be13c99aa8ce29a15073e2f19d935f68 Author: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Date: Fri Jun 16 09:24:50 2017 -0500 poplar: define memory regions in a separate file Separate the definitions for memory regions used for the BL stage images and FIP into a new file. The "l-loader" image uses knowledge of the sizes and locations of these memory regions, and it can now include this (external) header to get these definitions, rather than having to make coordinated changes to both code bases. The new file has a complete set of definitions (more than may be required by one or the other user). It also includes a summary of how the boot process works, and how it uses these regions. It should now be relatively easy to adjust the sizes and locations of these memory regions, or to add to them (e.g. for TEE). Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Compile from source
Get all the sources
mkdir -p ~/poplar/src ~/poplar/bin
cd ~/poplar/src
git clone https://github.com/Linaro/poplar-l-loader.git l-loader
git clone https://github.com/Linaro/poplar-arm-trusted-firmware.git atf
git clone https://github.com/Linaro/poplar-U-Boot.git U-Boot
Make sure you are using the correct branch on each one of these repositories. The definition of “correct” might change over time (at this moment in time this would be the “latest” branch).
Compile U-Boot
Prerequisite:
sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler
cd ~/poplar/src/U-Boot
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- poplar_defconfig
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
cp U-Boot.bin ~/poplar/bin
Compile ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF)
cd ~/poplar/src/atf
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- all fip \
SPD=none BL33=~/poplar/bin/U-Boot.bin DEBUG=1 PLAT=poplar
Copy resulting binaries
cp build/hi3798cv200/debug/bl1.bin ~/poplar/src/l-loader/atf/
cp build/hi3798cv200/debug/fip.bin ~/poplar/src/l-loader/atf/
Compile l-loader
cd ~/poplar/src/l-loader
make clean
make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
Due to BootROM requiremets, rename l-loader.bin to fastboot.bin:
cp l-loader.bin ~/poplar/bin/fastboot.bin
Flash instructions
Two methods:
- Using USB debrick support
Copy fastboot.bin to a FAT partition on the USB drive and reboot the poplar board while pressing S3(usb_boot).
The system will execute the new U-Boot and boot into a shell which you can then use to write to eMMC.
- Using U-BOOT from shell
using AXIS usb ethernet dongle and tftp
using FAT formated USB drive
Flash using TFTP (USB ethernet dongle)
Plug a USB AXIS ethernet dongle on any of the USB2 ports on the Poplar board. Copy fastboot.bin to your tftp server. In U-Boot make sure your network is properly setup.
Then:
=> tftp 0x30000000 fastboot.bin
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
USB1: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
scanning usb for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
Waiting for Ethernet connection... done.
Using asx0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.4; our IP address is 192.168.1.10
Filename 'poplar/fastboot.bin'.
Load address: 0x30000000
Loading: #################################################################
#################################################################
###############################################################
2 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 983040 (f0000 hex)
=> mmc write 0x30000000 0 0x780
MMC write: dev # 0, block # 0, count 1920 ... 1920 blocks written: OK
=> reset
Flash using USB FAT drive
Copy fastboot.bin to any partition on a FAT32 formated usb flash drive. Enter the uboot prompt:
=> fatls usb 0:2
983040 fastboot.bin
1 file(s), 0 dir(s)
=> fatload usb 0:2 0x30000000 fastboot.bin
reading fastboot.bin
983040 bytes read in 44 ms (21.3 MiB/s)
=> mmc write 0x30000000 0 0x780
MMC write: dev # 0, block # 0, count 1920 ... 1920 blocks written: OK
Boot trace
Bootrom start
Boot Media: eMMC
Decrypt auxiliary code ...OK
lsadc voltage min: 000000FE, max: 000000FF, aver: 000000FE, index: 00000000
Entry boot auxiliary code
Auxiliary code - v1.00
DDR code - V1.1.2 20160205
Build: Mar 24 2016 - 17:09:44
Reg Version: v134
Reg Time: 2016/03/18 09:44:55
Reg Name: hi3798cv2dmb_hi3798cv200_ddr3_2gbyte_8bitx4_4layers.reg
Boot auxiliary code success
Bootrom success
LOADER: Switched to aarch64 mode
LOADER: Entering ARM TRUSTED FIRMWARE
LOADER: CPU0 executes at 0x000ce000
INFO: BL1: 0xe1000 - 0xe7000 [size = 24576]
NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware
NOTICE: BL1: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL1: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL1: RAM 0xe1000 - 0xe7000
INFO: BL1: Loading BL2
INFO: Loading image id=1 at address 0xe9000
INFO: Image id=1 loaded at address 0xe9000, size = 0x5008
NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2
INFO: Entry point address = 0xe9000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3c5
NOTICE: BL2: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL2: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL2: Loading BL31
INFO: Loading image id=3 at address 0x129000
INFO: Image id=3 loaded at address 0x129000, size = 0x8038
INFO: BL2: Loading BL33
INFO: Loading image id=5 at address 0x37000000
INFO: Image id=5 loaded at address 0x37000000, size = 0x58f17
NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL31
INFO: Entry point address = 0x129000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3cd
INFO: Boot bl33 from 0x37000000 for 364311 Bytes
NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL31: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services
INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO: Entry point address = 0x37000000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9
U-Boot 2017.05-rc2-00130-gd2255b0 (Apr 30 2017 - 17:51:28 +0200)poplar
Model: HiSilicon Poplar Development Board
BOARD: Hisilicon HI3798cv200 Poplar
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: Hisilicon DWMMC: 0
In: serial@f8b00000
Out: serial@f8b00000
Err: serial@f8b00000
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
USB1: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
scanning usb for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
USB device 0:
Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.00 Prod: Cruzer Blade
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 7632.0 MB = 7.4 GB (15630336 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning usb 0:1...
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