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[2/4] beaglebone-yocto: support FIT images

Message ID 20250621162642.804605-3-adrian.freihofer@siemens.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series FIT image beaglebone-yocto (poky part) | expand

Commit Message

AdrianF June 21, 2025, 4:26 p.m. UTC 
From: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>

Introduce the FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL variable, which allows switching from the
zImage kernel to a FIT image kernel. This variable is not intended to be
officially documented; the goal is for the beaglebone-yocto MACHINE to
serve as an example for both use cases: zImage and FIT image.

The following tests have been performed on a beaglebone-black device
with poky and core-image-minimal running from SDCard:

* MACHINE = "beaglebone-yocto"
  Still boots the zImage kernel as before this commit

* MACHINE = "beaglebone-yocto"
  FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL = "1"
  Boots a FIT image kernel as expected

* MACHINE = "beaglebone-yocto"
  INITRAMFS_IMAGE = "core-image-initramfs-boot"
  FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL = "1"
  Boots a FIT image kernel with initramfs as expected

  Also booting like that behaves as expected:
   fatload mmc 0:1 $loadaddr /kernel
   iminfo $loadaddr
   setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ro \
          rootfstype=ext4 rootwait shell_debug=true
   bootm ${loadaddr}#conf-am335x-boneblack.dtb

All the tested configurations just boot from the SDCard without manual
tweaks.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Freihofer <adrian.freihofer@siemens.com>
---
 .../conf/machine/beaglebone-yocto.conf        | 31 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/beaglebone-yocto.conf b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/beaglebone-yocto.conf
index d4b72361650..321d2c27c2a 100644
--- a/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/beaglebone-yocto.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto-bsp/conf/machine/beaglebone-yocto.conf
@@ -14,8 +14,20 @@  include conf/machine/include/arm/armv7a/tune-cortexa8.inc
 IMAGE_FSTYPES += "tar.bz2 jffs2 wic wic.bmap"
 EXTRA_IMAGECMD:jffs2 = "-lnp "
 WKS_FILE ?= "beaglebone-yocto.wks"
-MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "kernel-image kernel-devicetree"
-do_image_wic[depends] += "mtools-native:do_populate_sysroot dosfstools-native:do_populate_sysroot virtual/bootloader:do_deploy"
+
+# Setting this variable to "1" switches from zImage kernel to FIT image kernel
+FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL ?= "0"
+
+# Note: This is redundant if wic creates a separate /boot partition
+MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "${@'linux-yocto-fitimage' if d.getVar('FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL') == '1' else 'kernel-image kernel-devicetree'}"
+
+KERNEL_CLASSES += "${@'kernel-fit-extra-artifacts' if d.getVar('FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL') == '1' else ''}"
+do_image_wic[depends] += "\
+    mtools-native:do_populate_sysroot \
+    dosfstools-native:do_populate_sysroot \
+    virtual/bootloader:do_deploy \
+    ${@'linux-yocto-fitimage:do_deploy' if d.getVar('FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL') == '1' else ''} \
+"
 
 SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyO0 115200;ttyAMA0"
 
@@ -26,15 +38,28 @@  KERNEL_IMAGETYPE = "zImage"
 DTB_FILES = "am335x-bone.dtb am335x-boneblack.dtb am335x-bonegreen.dtb"
 KERNEL_DEVICETREE = '${@' '.join('ti/omap/%s' % d for d in '${DTB_FILES}'.split())}'
 
+# Configure the image.bbclass to depend on the fitImage instead of only
+# the kernel to ensure the fitImage is built with the image
+KERNEL_DEPLOY_DEPEND = "${@'linux-yocto-fitimage:do_deploy' if d.getVar('FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL') == '1' else 'virtual/kernel:do_deploy'}"
+
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/bootloader ?= "u-boot"
 
 SPL_BINARY = "MLO"
 UBOOT_SUFFIX = "img"
 UBOOT_MACHINE = "am335x_evm_defconfig"
+UBOOT_ENTRYPOINT = "0x80008000"
+UBOOT_LOADADDRESS = "0x80008000"
+UBOOT_DTB_LOADADDRESS = "0x88000000"
+UBOOT_DTBO_LOADADDRESS = "0x88080000"
+UBOOT_RD_LOADADDRESS = "0x89000000"
+UBOOT_RD_ENTRYPOINT = "0x89000000"
 
 MACHINE_FEATURES = "usbgadget usbhost vfat alsa"
 
-IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${SPL_BINARY} ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${DTB_FILES}"
+# Configure wic to create a /boot partition with either zImage or fitImage
+IMAGE_BOOT_FILES ?= "u-boot.${UBOOT_SUFFIX} ${SPL_BINARY} \
+    ${@'fitImage' if d.getVar('FIT_IMAGE_KERNEL') == '1' else '${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE} ${DTB_FILES}'} \
+"
 
 # support runqemu
 EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "qemu-native qemu-helper-native"