Introduction

Attention: Board modification are required for supporting GPMC NAND flash device daughter card. Refer the board user guide of SK-AM62-LP for details on the modifications.

This is a bootloader example, which shows an example of booting Linux on A53 core and RTOS/NORTOS applications on DM R5 and M4 cores.

The booting is done in 2 stages(2 bootloader applications).

The stage1 of the bootloader runs from the HSM RAM. It boots MCU M4 with RTOS/NORTOS application and initializes the DDR. Then it loads the stage2 of the bootloader to DDR and stats running it.
The stage2 of the bootloader boots Linux on A53 and then self loads DM firmware on the DM R5.

The SBL uses 6 appimages

A Linux appimage containing the Linux binaries (ATF, OPTEE, A53 SPL).
tiboot3.bin with SBL stage1, TIFS, BoardConfig
Appimage for SBL stage2
Appimage for MCU M4
Appimage for HSM M4
DM firmware appimage for DM R5

Supported Combinations

Parameter	Value
CPU + OS	r5fss0-0 nortos
Toolchain	ti-arm-clang
Board	am62x-sk-lp
Example folder	examples/drivers/boot/sbl_gmpc_nand_linux_multistage

Steps to Run the Example

Build the example

When using CCS projects to build, import the CCS project for the required combination and build it using the CCS project menu (see Using SDK with CCS Projects).
When using makefiles to build, note the required combination and build using make command (see Using SDK with Makefiles)

Create Linux Appimage

Note: Change DEVICE_TYPE to HS in ${SDK_INSTALL_PATH}/devconfig/devconfig.mak and then generate Linux Appimage for HS-SE device.

Create a Linux Appimage containing the Linux binaries (ATF, OPTEE, A53 SPL)
This can be done by running the makefile at {SDK_INSTALL_PATH}/tools/boot/linuxAppimageGen after setting the PSDK path in file config.mak
Refer Linux Appimage Generator Tool for more details

Create HSM Appimage

Create a HSM Appimage
This can be done by running the makefile at {SDK_INSTALL_PATH}/tools/boot/HSMAppimageGen
Refer HSM Appimage Generator Tool for more details

Run the example

This example is the SBL which needs to be flashed on the EVM flash, along with sample application images for R5, M4 CPUs and Linux Appimage.
Note
For HS-SE device, use default_sbl_gpmc_linux_hs.cfg as the cfg file.

For HS-FS device, use default_sbl_gpmc_linux_hs_fs.cfg as the cfg file.

Attention
The UART uniflash does not have the GPMC flash enabled by default. Enable GPMC by adding another flash instance with 'Flash Topology' as 'Parallel Flash'. It will add GPMC module as well.
There is a default flash config file as shown below which flashes this SBL and the IPC RPMsg Linux echo applications
```
  ${SDK_INSTALL_PATH}/tools/boot/sbl_prebuilt/am62x-sk-lp/default_sbl_gpmc_linux_hs_fs.cfg
```
Make sure IPC rpmsg linux echo application is built before running the flash script. (see IPC RP Message Linux Echo)

Note: For IPC rpmsg linux echo, the resource table entity must be placed at the beginning of remoteproc memory section as mentoined in Linux dts file.

To flash to the EVM, refer to Flash an example application . Only when giving the flash config file, point to the default_sbl_gpmc_linux_hs_fs.cfg shown above.

Example, assuming SDK is installed at C:/ti/mcu_plus_sdk and this example and IPC application is built using makefiles, and Linux Appimage is already created, in Windows,

  cd C:/ti/mcu_plus_sdk/tools/boot
  python uart_uniflash.py -p COM13 --cfg=C:/ti/mcu_plus_sdk/tools/boot/sbl_prebuilt/am62x-sk-lp/default_sbl_gpmc_nand_linux_hs_fs.cfg

If Linux PC is used, assuming SDK is installed at ~/ti/mcu_plus_sdk

  cd ~/ti/mcu_plus_sdk
  python uart_uniflash.py -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --cfg=~/ti/mcu_plus_sdk/tools/boot/sbl_prebuilt/am62x-sk-lp/default_sbl_gpmc_nand_linux_hs_fs.cfg

Boot the EVM in GMPC NAND boot mode.

Note: The above config file will flash till u-boot on the GPMC NAND. U-Boot can load kernel from any bootmedia, refer to Processor SDK Linux user guide for more details.

Sample Output

After flashing and booting the EVM, you will see below output on the UART console (Complete log is not shown)

SYSFW Version 9.0.5--v09.00.05 (Kool Koala)
SYSFW revision 0x9
DMSC ABI revision 3.1

[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Media       : FLASH
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Media Clock : 133.333 MHz
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Image Size  : 181 KB
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Cores present    :
m4f0-0
r5f0-0
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] System_init                      :      36631us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Drivers_open                     :        202us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Board_driversOpen                :         34us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Sciclient Get Version            :       9926us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] App_loadImages                   :       7737us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] App_loadSelfcoreImage            :      15078us
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] SBL Total Time Taken             :      69611us

Image loading done, switching to application ...
Starting MCU-m4f and 2nd stage bootloader

SYSFW Version 9.0.5--v09.00.05 (Kool Koala)
SYSFW revision 0x9
DMSC ABI revision 3.1

[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Media       : FLASH
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Media Clock : 133.333 MHz
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Boot Image Size  : 959 KB
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] Cores present    :
hsm-m4f0-0
r5f0-0
a530-0
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] System_init                      :       2821us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Drivers_open                     :        267us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Board_driversOpen                :         44us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] Sciclient Get Version            :       9971us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] App_loadImages                   :       3381us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] App_loadSelfcoreImage            :      16135us
[BOOTLOADER PROFILE] App_loadLinuxImages              :      81618us
[BOOTLOADER_PROFILE] SBL Total Time Taken             :     114240us

Image loading done, switching to application ...
Starting linux and RTOS/Baremetal applications
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.8(release):v2.8-226-g2fcd408bb3-dirty
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 00:42:57, Jan 13 2023

U-Boot SPL 2023.04-g794614311a (Jul 05 2023 - 17:29:58 +0000)
SYSFW ABI: 3.1 (firmware rev 0x0009 '9.0.5--v09.00.05 (Kool Koala)')
Trying to boot from NAND
Authentication passed
Authentication passed



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