How can we deploy latest image with UEFI on hikey960?

ric96 · August 1, 2017, 10:00am

upon highlighting *CE Reference Platform (HiKey960 rpb) press e, what output is there?

rakshithpatkar · August 1, 2017, 10:01am

This is the output:

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|setparams ‘CE Reference Platform (HiKey960 rpb)’ |
| |
| linux /boot/Image console=tty0 console=ttyAMA6,115200n8 root=/dev/sdd10|
| rootwait rw quiet efi=noruntime |
| devicetree /boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb

ric96 · August 1, 2017, 10:04am

that seems fine to me, can you re flash both the boot.img and rpb.img again.
if the issue persists I’ll try it on my hk960 later today

rakshithpatkar · August 1, 2017, 10:10am

@ric96
Same error again after reflashing.

Thanks for all the help till now, and if you could check on your end and confirm, that would be great.
Thanks again.
Waiting for your update.

ric96 · August 1, 2017, 3:14pm

yup, i’m getting the same error on build 79

error: file `/boot/Image' not found.
error: file `/boot/hi3660-hikey960.dtb' not found.

Press any key to continue...

However Build 76 seems to be working fine
https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/openembedded/morty/hikey960/rpb/76/
some issue with build 79

rakshithpatkar · August 2, 2017, 4:08am

@ric96 Thank you for the quick update and solution. Works fine for me now.

rakshithpatkar · August 2, 2017, 5:56am

@ric96 On a related note, can i find the source repo on which these builds are running?
https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/openembedded/morty/hikey960/rpb/76/
Like a git repo from where I can download the source?

ric96 · August 2, 2017, 9:05am

you can go through this

github.com

Linaro/documentation/blob/master/Reference-Platform/CECommon/OE.md

## OpenEmbedded and Yocto

This page provides instructions to get started with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. It tries (when possible) to be generic for any board supported.
The board diversity should be addressed through dedicated BSP layer then MACHINE choice.

# Introduction

This wiki is not an introduction on OpenEmbedded or Yocto Project. If you are not familiar with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project, it is very much recommended to read the appropriate documentation first. For example, you can start with:
* https://openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
* https://yoctoproject.org/
* https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation

In this wiki, we assume that the reader is familiar with basic concepts of OpenEmbedded.

The support for a dedicated board is available in the dedicated BSP Layer. These layers have been tested with OpenEmbedded Core layer, and are expected to work with any other standard layers and of course any OpenEmbedded based distributions.

The Linux kernel used for these boards is the Reference Platform Kernel (RPK). The graphic stack is based on mesa:
* using the freedreno driver for Dragonboard 410c
* using the ARM Mali Utgard GPU driver for HiKey
* using the ARM Mali 400 GPU driver for B2260

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baou · September 13, 2017, 4:06pm

I fixed that issue by creating a symbolic link in include/uapi to asm-generic:

ln -rs include/uapi/asm-generic include/uapi/asm

juliansun · October 21, 2017, 6:16am

Ric96,

Thanks for all your posts. I was able to follow your instructions and installed UEFI on hikey960. Specifically I used the release version and build 25, http://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/components/uefi-staging/25/hikey960/release/

Then I followed your instructions here to flash boot and console image from build 76. However I got the following output on console screen and it seems stuck there forever. Do you have any ideas?

EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...

I also tried build 78 and 79 which gives “not found” errors.

Would appreciate any pointers!

ric96 · October 21, 2017, 9:02am

Please try more recent builds from
http://snapshots.linaro.org/reference-platform/embedded/morty/hikey960/

juliansun · October 21, 2017, 4:04pm

Just tried snapshot 100 (8/8). It hangs with one liner:

Booting `CE Reference Platform (HiKey960 rpb)'

What is your last known working setup?

I’m looking over my steps and cannot really find anything that is suspcious. Maybe I should debug version of UEFI?

Thanks!

juliansun · October 21, 2017, 4:05pm

Also, when linux starts up, is the serial console baud rate still at 115200 as the UEFI?

ric96 · October 21, 2017, 9:33pm

yes

I haven’t tried oe builds in a while, maybe @leo-yan can help…

juliansun · October 24, 2017, 4:14am

So I switched to UEFI debug build. It pretty much hangs at the same location, but with 2 extra output lines. Maybe that gives someone a clue? Would really appreciate.

  Booting `CE Reference Platform (HiKey960 rpb)'

  Loading driver at 0x000B789E000 EntryPoint=0x000B8712440
  Loading driver at 0x000B789E000 EntryPoint=0x000B8712440

Loic · October 24, 2017, 2:37pm

The recommended version for sec_xloader.img is 23, latter uefi-staging versions are reported as bad.

juliansun · October 24, 2017, 3:22pm

Thanks for the pointer, Loic. Unfortunately the results are same for build 23, at least in my case.

However, I did discover something interesting. After the step “sudo ./hikey_idt -c config -p /dev/ttyUSB1”, if I don’t press “f” to enter fastboot mode, it seems to go through normal boot up sequence and I got a bunch of what appears to be kernel messages (see some of them below). However, I still don’t get to console mode. Any more ideas?

[ 484.218635] [E/GPIO_HUB] gpio_hub_switch_to_hub: switch to hub
[ 484.775777] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 484.785466] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 484.952205] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 484.961807] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 484.971363] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 484.980903] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 484.990404] [E/hisi_pd] typec_unattached_power_entry:!!!+++++++++++
[ 484.998752] [E/hisi_pd] typec_unattached_power_entry:!!!-----------
[ 485.029662] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 485.039172] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 485.048659] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 485.058115] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 485.067548] [E/hisi_pd] typec_unattached_power_entry:!!!+++++++++++
[ 485.075837] [E/hisi_pd] typec_unattached_power_entry:!!!-----------
[ 485.671450] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 485.680911] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 485.690334] [E/GPIO_HUB] gpio_hub_switch_to_typec: switch to typec
[ 485.698625] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 485.708169] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 485.862750] [E/hisi_pd] pd_dpm_handle_pe_event:!!!,event=2,+++
[ 485.870715] [E/hisi_pd] pd_dpm_vbus_notifier_call: pd_dpm_vbus_notifier_call+
[ 486.115214] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!++++++++
[ 486.124802] [E/hisi_pd] typec_wait_ps_change: typec_wait_ps_change!!!--------
[ 486.134405] [E/hisi_pd] pd_dpm_handle_pe_event:!!!,event=7,+++
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leo-yan · October 25, 2017, 3:18am

I think Loic has tried the booting images in the folder: http://snapshots.linaro.org/reference-platform/embedded/morty/hikey960/latest/rpb/bootloader/.

At my side, I tried two versions booting images:
http://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/components/uefi-staging/25/hikey960/release/
http://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/reference-platform/components/uefi-staging/23/hikey960/release/
Both cannot boot up successfully

As another alternative solution, you can use all images in the 25 folder except the bad sec_xloader.img, you could rollback to use sec_xloader.img in 23 folder.

juliansun · October 25, 2017, 10:24pm

Thanks to everybody’s help, I was able to get it working with both console version and desktop version. I needed to run some browser benchmarks and thus really needed desktop version.

Here are some recap of the whole process so that others can duplicate exactly.

Download UEFI build from latest snapshot 100 (not UEFI stagging build which is 1 month older), http://snapshots.linaro.org/reference-platform/embedded/morty/hikey960/100/rpb/bootloader/
Follow previous instruction to install UEFI, Install UEFI on HiKey960 from Binaries [Instructions].
Note you don’t need to git clone image tools. All files are already present in the bootloader/ folder downloaded in the previous step
Download latest boot-.img and rpb-console-.rootfs.img.gz or rpb-desktop*.img.gz files. Unzip the rootfs images.
http://snapshots.linaro.org/reference-platform/embedded/morty/hikey960/100/rpb/
Use “sudo fastboot flash boot|system …” to flash them respectively. Reboot and it should be good to go.
On desktop version, you need to create the following file before executing “startx”
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/42-fbdev.conf

Section “Device”
Identifier “hikey960-fbdev”
Driver “fbdev”
Option “fbdev” “/dev/fb0”
EndSection
twm is not present, but you can use x-window-manager (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc)
You can auto start X window by changing to “ExecStart=/usr/bin/startx” in /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

Hope that helps anyone who wants to try.

Loic · October 26, 2017, 8:14am

@juliansun Thanks for sharing , nice summary.