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authorBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2019-07-18 00:34:33 -0700
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-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2014 The Chromium OS Authors.
- */
-
-Native Execution of U-Boot
-==========================
-
-The 'sandbox' architecture is designed to allow U-Boot to run under Linux on
-almost any hardware. To achieve this it builds U-Boot (so far as possible)
-as a normal C application with a main() and normal C libraries.
-
-All of U-Boot's architecture-specific code therefore cannot be built as part
-of the sandbox U-Boot. The purpose of running U-Boot under Linux is to test
-all the generic code, not specific to any one architecture. The idea is to
-create unit tests which we can run to test this upper level code.
-
-CONFIG_SANDBOX is defined when building a native board.
-
-The board name is 'sandbox' but the vendor name is unset, so there is a
-single board in board/sandbox.
-
-CONFIG_SANDBOX_BIG_ENDIAN should be defined when running on big-endian
-machines.
-
-There are two versions of the sandbox: One using 32-bit-wide integers, and one
-using 64-bit-wide integers. The 32-bit version can be build and run on either
-32 or 64-bit hosts by either selecting or deselecting CONFIG_SANDBOX_32BIT; by
-default, the sandbox it built for a 32-bit host. The sandbox using 64-bit-wide
-integers can only be built on 64-bit hosts.
-
-Note that standalone/API support is not available at present.
-
-
-Basic Operation
----------------
-
-To run sandbox U-Boot use something like:
-
- make sandbox_defconfig all
- ./u-boot
-
-Note:
- If you get errors about 'sdl-config: Command not found' you may need to
- install libsdl1.2-dev or similar to get SDL support. Alternatively you can
- build sandbox without SDL (i.e. no display/keyboard support) by removing
- the CONFIG_SANDBOX_SDL line in include/configs/sandbox.h or using:
-
- make sandbox_defconfig all NO_SDL=1
- ./u-boot
-
-U-Boot will start on your computer, showing a sandbox emulation of the serial
-console:
-
-
-U-Boot 2014.04 (Mar 20 2014 - 19:06:00)
-
-DRAM: 128 MiB
-Using default environment
-
-In: serial
-Out: lcd
-Err: lcd
-=>
-
-You can issue commands as your would normally. If the command you want is
-not supported you can add it to include/configs/sandbox.h.
-
-To exit, type 'reset' or press Ctrl-C.
-
-
-Console / LCD support
----------------------
-
-Assuming that CONFIG_SANDBOX_SDL is defined when building, you can run the
-sandbox with LCD and keyboard emulation, using something like:
-
- ./u-boot -d u-boot.dtb -l
-
-This will start U-Boot with a window showing the contents of the LCD. If
-that window has the focus then you will be able to type commands as you
-would on the console. You can adjust the display settings in the device
-tree file - see arch/sandbox/dts/sandbox.dts.
-
-
-Command-line Options
---------------------
-
-Various options are available, mostly for test purposes. Use -h to see
-available options. Some of these are described below.
-
-The terminal is normally in what is called 'raw-with-sigs' mode. This means
-that you can use arrow keys for command editing and history, but if you
-press Ctrl-C, U-Boot will exit instead of handling this as a keypress.
-
-Other options are 'raw' (so Ctrl-C is handled within U-Boot) and 'cooked'
-(where the terminal is in cooked mode and cursor keys will not work, Ctrl-C
-will exit).
-
-As mentioned above, -l causes the LCD emulation window to be shown.
-
-A device tree binary file can be provided with -d. If you edit the source
-(it is stored at arch/sandbox/dts/sandbox.dts) you must rebuild U-Boot to
-recreate the binary file.
-
-To execute commands directly, use the -c option. You can specify a single
-command, or multiple commands separated by a semicolon, as is normal in
-U-Boot. Be careful with quoting as the shell will normally process and
-swallow quotes. When -c is used, U-Boot exits after the command is complete,
-but you can force it to go to interactive mode instead with -i.
-
-
-Memory Emulation
-----------------
-
-Memory emulation is supported, with the size set by CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_SIZE.
-The -m option can be used to read memory from a file on start-up and write
-it when shutting down. This allows preserving of memory contents across
-test runs. You can tell U-Boot to remove the memory file after it is read
-(on start-up) with the --rm_memory option.
-
-To access U-Boot's emulated memory within the code, use map_sysmem(). This
-function is used throughout U-Boot to ensure that emulated memory is used
-rather than the U-Boot application memory. This provides memory starting
-at 0 and extending to the size of the emulation.
-
-
-Storing State
--------------
-
-With sandbox you can write drivers which emulate the operation of drivers on
-real devices. Some of these drivers may want to record state which is
-preserved across U-Boot runs. This is particularly useful for testing. For
-example, the contents of a SPI flash chip should not disappear just because
-U-Boot exits.
-
-State is stored in a device tree file in a simple format which is driver-
-specific. You then use the -s option to specify the state file. Use -r to
-make U-Boot read the state on start-up (otherwise it starts empty) and -w
-to write it on exit (otherwise the stored state is left unchanged and any
-changes U-Boot made will be lost). You can also use -n to tell U-Boot to
-ignore any problems with missing state. This is useful when first running
-since the state file will be empty.
-
-The device tree file has one node for each driver - the driver can store
-whatever properties it likes in there. See 'Writing Sandbox Drivers' below
-for more details on how to get drivers to read and write their state.
-
-
-Running and Booting
--------------------
-
-Since there is no machine architecture, sandbox U-Boot cannot actually boot
-a kernel, but it does support the bootm command. Filesystems, memory
-commands, hashing, FIT images, verified boot and many other features are
-supported.
-
-When 'bootm' runs a kernel, sandbox will exit, as U-Boot does on a real
-machine. Of course in this case, no kernel is run.
-
-It is also possible to tell U-Boot that it has jumped from a temporary
-previous U-Boot binary, with the -j option. That binary is automatically
-removed by the U-Boot that gets the -j option. This allows you to write
-tests which emulate the action of chain-loading U-Boot, typically used in
-a situation where a second 'updatable' U-Boot is stored on your board. It
-is very risky to overwrite or upgrade the only U-Boot on a board, since a
-power or other failure will brick the board and require return to the
-manufacturer in the case of a consumer device.
-
-
-Supported Drivers
------------------
-
-U-Boot sandbox supports these emulations:
-
-- Block devices
-- Chrome OS EC
-- GPIO
-- Host filesystem (access files on the host from within U-Boot)
-- I2C
-- Keyboard (Chrome OS)
-- LCD
-- Network
-- Serial (for console only)
-- Sound (incomplete - see sandbox_sdl_sound_init() for details)
-- SPI
-- SPI flash
-- TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
-
-A wide range of commands are implemented. Filesystems which use a block
-device are supported.
-
-Also sandbox supports driver model (CONFIG_DM) and associated commands.
-
-
-Sandbox Variants
-----------------
-
-There are unfortunately quite a few variants at present:
-
-sandbox - should be used for most tests
-sandbox64 - special build that forces a 64-bit host
-sandbox_flattree - builds with dev_read_...() functions defined as inline.
- We need this build so that we can test those inline functions, and we
- cannot build with both the inline functions and the non-inline functions
- since they are named the same.
-sandbox_noblk - builds without CONFIG_BLK, which means the legacy block
- drivers are used. We cannot use both the legacy and driver-model block
- drivers since they implement the same functions
-sandbox_spl - builds sandbox with SPL support, so you can run spl/u-boot-spl
- and it will start up and then load ./u-boot. It is also possible to
- run ./u-boot directly.
-
-Of these sandbox_noblk can be removed once CONFIG_BLK is used everwhere, and
-sandbox_spl can probably be removed since it is a superset of sandbox.
-
-Most of the config options should be identical between these variants.
-
-
-Linux RAW Networking Bridge
----------------------------
-
-The sandbox_eth_raw driver bridges traffic between the bottom of the network
-stack and the RAW sockets API in Linux. This allows much of the U-Boot network
-functionality to be tested in sandbox against real network traffic.
-
-For Ethernet network adapters, the bridge utilizes the RAW AF_PACKET API. This
-is needed to get access to the lowest level of the network stack in Linux. This
-means that all of the Ethernet frame is included. This allows the U-Boot network
-stack to be fully used. In other words, nothing about the Linux network stack is
-involved in forming the packets that end up on the wire. To receive the
-responses to packets sent from U-Boot the network interface has to be set to
-promiscuous mode so that the network card won't filter out packets not destined
-for its configured (on Linux) MAC address.
-
-The RAW sockets Ethernet API requires elevated privileges in Linux. You can
-either run as root, or you can add the capability needed like so:
-
-sudo /sbin/setcap "CAP_NET_RAW+ep" /path/to/u-boot
-
-The default device tree for sandbox includes an entry for eth0 on the sandbox
-host machine whose alias is "eth1". The following are a few examples of network
-operations being tested on the eth0 interface.
-
-sudo /path/to/u-boot -D
-
-DHCP
-....
-
-setenv autoload no
-setenv ethrotate no
-setenv ethact eth1
-dhcp
-
-PING
-....
-
-setenv autoload no
-setenv ethrotate no
-setenv ethact eth1
-dhcp
-ping $gatewayip
-
-TFTP
-....
-
-setenv autoload no
-setenv ethrotate no
-setenv ethact eth1
-dhcp
-setenv serverip WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
-tftpboot u-boot.bin
-
-The bridge also supports (to a lesser extent) the localhost interface, 'lo'.
-
-The 'lo' interface cannot use the RAW AF_PACKET API because the lo interface
-doesn't support Ethernet-level traffic. It is a higher-level interface that is
-expected only to be used at the AF_INET level of the API. As such, the most raw
-we can get on that interface is the RAW AF_INET API on UDP. This allows us to
-set the IP_HDRINCL option to include everything except the Ethernet header in
-the packets we send and receive.
-
-Because only UDP is supported, ICMP traffic will not work, so expect that ping
-commands will time out.
-
-The default device tree for sandbox includes an entry for lo on the sandbox
-host machine whose alias is "eth5". The following is an example of a network
-operation being tested on the lo interface.
-
-TFTP
-....
-
-setenv ethrotate no
-setenv ethact eth5
-tftpboot u-boot.bin
-
-
-SPI Emulation
--------------
-
-Sandbox supports SPI and SPI flash emulation.
-
-This is controlled by the spi_sf argument, the format of which is:
-
- bus:cs:device:file
-
- bus - SPI bus number
- cs - SPI chip select number
- device - SPI device emulation name
- file - File on disk containing the data
-
-For example:
-
- dd if=/dev/zero of=spi.bin bs=1M count=4
- ./u-boot --spi_sf 0:0:M25P16:spi.bin
-
-With this setup you can issue SPI flash commands as normal:
-
-=>sf probe
-SF: Detected M25P16 with page size 64 KiB, total 2 MiB
-=>sf read 0 0 10000
-SF: 65536 bytes @ 0x0 Read: OK
-=>
-
-Since this is a full SPI emulation (rather than just flash), you can
-also use low-level SPI commands:
-
-=>sspi 0:0 32 9f
-FF202015
-
-This is issuing a READ_ID command and getting back 20 (ST Micro) part
-0x2015 (the M25P16).
-
-Drivers are connected to a particular bus/cs using sandbox's state
-structure (see the 'spi' member). A set of operations must be provided
-for each driver.
-
-
-Configuration settings for the curious are:
-
-CONFIG_SANDBOX_SPI_MAX_BUS
- The maximum number of SPI buses supported by the driver (default 1).
-
-CONFIG_SANDBOX_SPI_MAX_CS
- The maximum number of chip selects supported by the driver
- (default 10).
-
-CONFIG_SPI_IDLE_VAL
- The idle value on the SPI bus
-
-
-Block Device Emulation
-----------------------
-
-U-Boot can use raw disk images for block device emulation. To e.g. list
-the contents of the root directory on the second partion of the image
-"disk.raw", you can use the following commands:
-
-=>host bind 0 ./disk.raw
-=>ls host 0:2
-
-A disk image can be created using the following commands:
-
-$> truncate -s 1200M ./disk.raw
-$> echo -e "label: gpt\n,64M,U\n,,L" | /usr/sbin/sgdisk ./disk.raw
-$> lodev=`sudo losetup -P -f --show ./disk.raw`
-$> sudo mkfs.vfat -n EFI -v ${lodev}p1
-$> sudo mkfs.ext4 -L ROOT -v ${lodev}p2
-
-or utilize the device described in test/py/make_test_disk.py:
-
- #!/usr/bin/python
- import make_test_disk
- make_test_disk.makeDisk()
-
-Writing Sandbox Drivers
------------------------
-
-Generally you should put your driver in a file containing the word 'sandbox'
-and put it in the same directory as other drivers of its type. You can then
-implement the same hooks as the other drivers.
-
-To access U-Boot's emulated memory, use map_sysmem() as mentioned above.
-
-If your driver needs to store configuration or state (such as SPI flash
-contents or emulated chip registers), you can use the device tree as
-described above. Define handlers for this with the SANDBOX_STATE_IO macro.
-See arch/sandbox/include/asm/state.h for documentation. In short you provide
-a node name, compatible string and functions to read and write the state.
-Since writing the state can expand the device tree, you may need to use
-state_setprop() which does this automatically and avoids running out of
-space. See existing code for examples.
-
-
-Debugging the init sequence
----------------------------
-
-If you get a failure in the initcall sequence, like this:
-
- initcall sequence 0000560775957c80 failed at call 0000000000048134 (err=-96)
-
-Then you use can use grep to see which init call failed, e.g.:
-
- $ grep 0000000000048134 u-boot.map
- stdio_add_devices
-
-Of course another option is to run it with a debugger such as gdb:
-
- $ gdb u-boot
- ...
- (gdb) br initcall.h:41
- Breakpoint 1 at 0x4db9d: initcall.h:41. (2 locations)
-
-Note that two locations are reported, since this function is used in both
-board_init_f() and board_init_r().
-
- (gdb) r
- Starting program: /tmp/b/sandbox/u-boot
- [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
- Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
-
- U-Boot 2018.09-00264-ge0c2ba9814-dirty (Sep 22 2018 - 12:21:46 -0600)
-
- DRAM: 128 MiB
- MMC:
-
- Breakpoint 1, initcall_run_list (init_sequence=0x5555559619e0 <init_sequence_f>)
- at /scratch/sglass/cosarm/src/third_party/u-boot/files/include/initcall.h:41
- 41 printf("initcall sequence %p failed at call %p (err=%d)\n",
- (gdb) print *init_fnc_ptr
- $1 = (const init_fnc_t) 0x55555559c114 <stdio_add_devices>
- (gdb)
-
-
-This approach can be used on normal boards as well as sandbox.
-
-
-SDL_CONFIG
-----------
-
-If sdl-config is on a different path from the default, set the SDL_CONFIG
-environment variable to the correct pathname before building U-Boot.
-
-
-Using valgrind / memcheck
--------------------------
-
-It is possible to run U-Boot under valgrind to check memory allocations:
-
- valgrind u-boot
-
-If you are running sandbox SPL or TPL, then valgrind will not by default
-notice when U-Boot jumps from TPL to SPL, or from SPL to U-Boot proper. To
-fix this, use:
-
- valgrind --trace-children=yes u-boot
-
-
-Testing
--------
-
-U-Boot sandbox can be used to run various tests, mostly in the test/
-directory. These include:
-
- command_ut
- - Unit tests for command parsing and handling
- compression
- - Unit tests for U-Boot's compression algorithms, useful for
- security checking. It supports gzip, bzip2, lzma and lzo.
- driver model
- - Run this pytest
- ./test/py/test.py --bd sandbox --build -k ut_dm -v
- image
- - Unit tests for images:
- test/image/test-imagetools.sh - multi-file images
- test/image/test-fit.py - FIT images
- tracing
- - test/trace/test-trace.sh tests the tracing system (see README.trace)
- verified boot
- - See test/vboot/vboot_test.sh for this
-
-If you change or enhance any of the above subsystems, you shold write or
-expand a test and include it with your patch series submission. Test
-coverage in U-Boot is limited, as we need to work to improve it.
-
-Note that many of these tests are implemented as commands which you can
-run natively on your board if desired (and enabled).
-
-To run all tests use "make check".
-
-
-Memory Map
-----------
-
-Sandbox has its own emulated memory starting at 0. Here are some of the things
-that are mapped into that memory:
-
- 0 CONFIG_SYS_FDT_LOAD_ADDR Device tree
- e000 CONFIG_BLOBLIST_ADDR Blob list
- 10000 CONFIG_MALLOC_F_ADDR Early memory allocation
- f0000 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR Pre-console buffer
- 100000 CONFIG_TRACE_EARLY_ADDR Early trace buffer (if enabled)
-=
-
-
---
-Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
-Updated 22-Mar-14