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author | Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> | 2021-03-05 14:58:37 +0300 |
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committer | Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> | 2021-03-16 11:37:04 +0300 |
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doc: move README.dfu to HTML documentation
Move README.dfu to doc/usage/dfu.rst and convert to reStructured text.
In the long run this page should be split into two. One for the overview
and one for the dfu command. UEFI capsule updates and dfutftp should be
integrated into the overview page.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) +============================= + +Overview +-------- + +The Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) allows to download and upload firmware +to/from U-Boot connected over USB. + +U-boot follows the Universal Serial Bus Device Class Specification for +Device Firmware Upgrade Version 1.1 the USB forum (DFU v1.1 in www.usb.org). + +U-Boot implements this DFU capability (CONFIG_DFU) with the command dfu +(cmd/dfu.c / CONFIG_CMD_DFU) based on: + +- the DFU stack (common/dfu.c and common/spl/spl_dfu.c), based on the + USB DFU download gadget (drivers/usb/gadget/f_dfu.c) +- The access to mediums is done in DFU backends (driver/dfu) + +Today the supported DFU backends are: + +- MMC (RAW or FAT / EXT2 / EXT3 / EXT4 file system / SKIP / SCRIPT) +- NAND +- RAM +- SF (serial flash) +- MTD (all MTD device: NAND, SPI-NOR, SPI-NAND,...) +- virtual + +These DFU backends are also used by + +- the dfutftp (see README.dfutftp) +- the thordown command (cmd/thordown.c and gadget/f_thor.c) + +The "virtual" backend is a generic DFU backend to support a board specific +target (for example OTP), only based on the weak functions: + +- dfu_write_medium_virt +- dfu_get_medium_size_virt +- dfu_read_medium_virt + +Configuration Options +--------------------- + +The following configuration option are relevant for device firmware upgrade: + +* CONFIG_DFU +* CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB +* CONFIG_DFU_MMC +* CONFIG_DFU_MTD +* CONFIG_DFU_NAND +* CONFIG_DFU_RAM +* CONFIG_DFU_SF +* CONFIG_DFU_SF_PART +* CONFIG_DFU_TIMEOUT +* CONFIG_DFU_VIRTUAL +* CONFIG_CMD_DFU + +Environment variables +--------------------- + +The dfu command uses 3 environments variables: + +dfu_alt_info + The DFU setting for the USB download gadget with a semicolon separated + string of information on each alternate:: + + dfu_alt_info="<alt1>;<alt2>;....;<altN>" + + When several devices are used, the format is: + + - <interface> <dev>'='alternate list (';' separated) + - each interface is separated by '&':: + + dfu_alt_info=\ + "<interface1> <dev1>=<alt1>;....;<altN>&"\ + "<interface2> <dev2>=<altN+1>;....;<altM>&"\ + ...\ + "<interfaceI> <devI>=<altY+1>;....;<altZ>&" + +dfu_bufsiz + size of the DFU buffer, when absent, defaults to + CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE (8 MiB by default) + +dfu_hash_algo + name of the hash algorithm to use + +Commands +-------- + +dfu <USB_controller> [<interface> <dev>] list + list the alternate device defined in *dfu_alt_info* + +dfu <USB_controller> [<interface> <dev>] [<timeout>] + start the dfu stack on the USB instance with the selected medium + backend and use the *dfu_alt_info* variable to configure the + alternate setting and link each one with the medium + The dfu command continue until receive a ^C in console or + a DFU detach transaction from HOST. If CONFIG_DFU_TIMEOUT option + is enabled and <timeout> parameter is present in the command line, + the DFU operation will be aborted automatically after <timeout> + seconds of waiting remote to initiate DFU session. + +The possible values of <interface> are (with <USB controller> = 0 in the dfu +command example) + +mmc + for eMMC and SD card:: + + dfu 0 mmc <dev> + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being + + * <name> raw <offset> <size> [mmcpart <num>] raw access to mmc device + * <name> part <dev> <part_id> [mmcpart <num>] raw access to partition + * <name> fat <dev> <part_id> [mmcpart <num>] file in FAT partition + * <name> ext4 <dev> <part_id> [mmcpart <num>] file in EXT4 partition + * <name> skip 0 0 ignore flashed data + * <name> script 0 0 execute commands in shell + + with + + partid + being the GPT or DOS partition index, + num + being the eMMC hardware partition number. + + A value of environment variable *dfu_alt_info* for eMMC could be:: + + u-boot raw 0x3e 0x800 mmcpart 1;bl2 raw 0x1e 0x1d mmcpart 1 + + A value of environment variable *dfu_alt_info* for SD card could be:: + + u-boot raw 0x80 0x800;uImage ext4 0 2 + + If don't want to flash given image file to storage, use "skip" type + entity. + + - It can be used to protect flashing wrong image for the specific board. + - Especailly, this layout will be useful when thor protocol is used, + which performs flashing in batch mode, where more than one file is + processed. + + For example, if one makes a single tar file with support for the two + boards with u-boot-<board1>.bin and u-boot-<board2>.bin files, one + can use it to flash a proper u-boot image on both without a failure:: + + u-boot-<board1>.bin raw 0x80 0x800; u-boot-<board2>.bin skip 0 0 + + When flashing new system image requires do some more complex things + than just writing data to the storage medium, one can use 'script' + type. Data written to such entity will be executed as a command list + in the u-boot's shell. This for example allows to re-create partition + layout and even set new *dfu_alt_info* for the newly created paritions. + Such script would look like:: + + setenv dfu_alt_info ... + setenv mbr_parts ... + mbr write ... + + Please note that this means that user will be able to execute any + arbitrary commands just like in the u-boot's shell. + +nand + raw slc nand device:: + + dfu 0 nand <dev> + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being either of + + * <name> raw <offset> <size> raw access to mmc device + * <name> part <dev> <part_id> raw acces to partition + * <name> partubi <dev> <part_id> raw acces to ubi partition + + with + + partid + is the MTD partition index + +ram + raw access to ram:: + + dfu 0 ram <dev> + + dev + is not used for RAM target + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being:: + + <name> ram <offset> <size> raw access to ram + +sf + serial flash : NOR:: + + cmd: dfu 0 sf <dev> + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being either of: + + * <name> raw <offset> <size> raw access to sf device + * <name> part <dev> <part_id> raw acces to partition + * <name> partubi <dev> <part_id> raw acces to ubi partition + + with + + partid + is the MTD partition index + +mtd + all MTD device: NAND, SPI-NOR, SPI-NAND,...:: + + cmd: dfu 0 mtd <dev> + + with + + dev + the mtd identifier as defined in mtd command + (nand0, nor0, spi-nand0,...) + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being either of: + + * <name> raw <offset> <size> forraw access to mtd device + * <name> part <dev> <part_id> for raw acces to partition + * <name> partubi <dev> <part_id> for raw acces to ubi partition + + with + + partid + is the MTD partition index + +virt + virtual flash back end for DFU + + :: + + cmd: dfu 0 virt <dev> + + each element in *dfu_alt_info* being: + + * <name> + +<interface> and <dev> are absent, the dfu command to use multiple devices:: + + cmd: dfu 0 list + cmd: dfu 0 + +*dfu_alt_info* variable provides the list of <interface> <dev> with +alternate list separated by '&' with the same format for each <alt>:: + + mmc <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + nand <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + ram <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + sf <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + mtd <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + virt <dev>=<alt1>;....;<altN> + +Callbacks +--------- + +The weak callback functions can be implemented to manage specific behavior + +dfu_initiated_callback + called when the DFU transaction is started, used to initiase the device + +dfu_flush_callback + called at the end of the DFU write after DFU manifestation, used to manage + the device when DFU transaction is closed + +Host tools +---------- + +When U-Boot runs the dfu stack, the DFU host tools can be used +to send/receive firmwares on each configurated alternate. + +For example dfu-util is a host side implementation of the DFU 1.1 +specifications(http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/) which works with U-Boot. + +Usage +----- + +Example 1: firmware located in eMMC or SD card, with: + +- alternate 1 (alt=1) for SPL partition (GPT partition 1) +- alternate 2 (alt=2) for U-Boot partition (GPT partition 2) + +The U-Boot configuration is:: + + U-Boot> env set dfu_alt_info "spl part 0 1;u-boot part 0 2" + + U-Boot> dfu 0 mmc 0 list + DFU alt settings list: + dev: eMMC alt: 0 name: spl layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: eMMC alt: 1 name: u-boot layout: RAW_ADDR + + Boot> dfu 0 mmc 0 + +On the Host side: + +list the available alternate setting:: + + $> dfu-util -l + dfu-util 0.9 + + Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc. + Copyright 2010-2016 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt + This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY + Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/ + + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=0200, devnum=45, cfg=1, intf=0, path="3-1.3.1", \ + alt=1, name="u-boot", serial="003A00203438510D36383238" + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=0200, devnum=45, cfg=1, intf=0, path="3-1.3.1", \ + alt=0, name="spl", serial="003A00203438510D36383238" + + To download to U-Boot, use -D option + + $> dfu-util -a 0 -D u-boot-spl.bin + $> dfu-util -a 1 -D u-boot.bin + + To upload from U-Boot, use -U option + + $> dfu-util -a 0 -U u-boot-spl.bin + $> dfu-util -a 1 -U u-boot.bin + + To request a DFU detach and reset the USB connection: + $> dfu-util -a 0 -e -R + + +Example 2: firmware located in NOR (sf) and NAND, with: + +- alternate 1 (alt=1) for SPL partition (NOR GPT partition 1) +- alternate 2 (alt=2) for U-Boot partition (NOR GPT partition 2) +- alternate 3 (alt=3) for U-Boot-env partition (NOR GPT partition 3) +- alternate 4 (alt=4) for UBI partition (NAND GPT partition 1) + +:: + + U-Boot> env set dfu_alt_info \ + "sf 0:0:10000000:0=spl part 0 1;u-boot part 0 2; \ + u-boot-env part 0 3&nand 0=UBI partubi 0,1" + + U-Boot> dfu 0 list + + DFU alt settings list: + dev: SF alt: 0 name: spl layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: SF alt: 1 name: ssbl layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: SF alt: 2 name: u-boot-env layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: NAND alt: 3 name: UBI layout: RAW_ADDR + + U-Boot> dfu 0 + +:: + + $> dfu-util -l + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=9999, devnum=96, cfg=1,\ + intf=0, alt=3, name="UBI", serial="002700333338511934383330" + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=9999, devnum=96, cfg=1,\ + intf=0, alt=2, name="u-boot-env", serial="002700333338511934383330" + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=9999, devnum=96, cfg=1,\ + intf=0, alt=1, name="u-boot", serial="002700333338511934383330" + Found DFU: [0483:5720] ver=9999, devnum=96, cfg=1,\ + intf=0, alt=0, name="spl", serial="002700333338511934383330" + +Same example with MTD backend + +:: + + U-Boot> env set dfu_alt_info \ + "mtd nor0=spl part 1;u-boot part 2;u-boot-env part 3&"\ + "mtd nand0=UBI partubi 1" + + U-Boot> dfu 0 list + using id 'nor0,0' + using id 'nor0,1' + using id 'nor0,2' + using id 'nand0,0' + DFU alt settings list: + dev: MTD alt: 0 name: spl layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: MTD alt: 1 name: u-boot layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: MTD alt: 2 name: u-boot-env layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: MTD alt: 3 name: UBI layout: RAW_ADDR + +Example 3 + +firmware located in SD Card (mmc) and virtual partition on OTP and PMIC not +volatile memory + +- alternate 1 (alt=1) for scard +- alternate 2 (alt=2) for OTP (virtual) +- alternate 3 (alt=3) for PMIC NVM (virtual) + +:: + + U-Boot> env set dfu_alt_info \ + "mmc 0=sdcard raw 0 0x100000&"\ + "virt 0=otp" \ + "virt 1=pmic" + +:: + + U-Boot> dfu 0 list + DFU alt settings list: + dev: eMMC alt: 0 name: sdcard layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: VIRT alt: 1 name: otp layout: RAW_ADDR + dev: VIRT alt: 2 name: pmic layout: RAW_ADDR |