Tx2: Help Booting uImage

Ultimately I want to use the verified boot features of the uImage (FIT) and u-boot, but I want to start by just booting a regular uImage file. I am not having any luck and I am hoping someone has some ideas, or a recipe to get this working.

Note, it appears that I am trying to do something similar to the following other individuals (for tk1) but the answers don’t seem sufficient to unblock me:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26626471/linux-boot-arguments-with-u-boot-and-flat-image-tree-fit
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/367048/linux-cannot-boot-with-u-boot-and-fitflatten-image-tree/367586

Okay, here is what I did. I started with L4T 28.1 First rebuilt u-boot with the following additions to the u-boot configuration:

CONFIG_FIT=y
CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE=y
CONFIG_FIT_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_RSA=y

Then I used the following “.its” file to make a uImage (using the kernel Image and ftb from JetPack 3.1)

/dts-v1/;

/ {
    description = "OS kernel image with one or more FDT blobs";
    #address-cells = <1>;

    images {
        kernel@1 {
                        description = "Kernel";
            data = /incbin/("./Image");
            type = "kernel";
            arch = "arm64";
            os = "linux";
            compression = "none";
            load = <0x80080000>;
            entry = <0x80080000>;
            kernel-version = <1>;
            hash@1 {
                algo = "sha1";
            };
        };
        fdt@1 {
            description = "Device Tree";
            data = /incbin/("./tegra186-quill-p3310-1000-c03-00-base.dtb");
            type = "flat_dt";
            arch = "arm64";
            compression = "none";
            fdt-version = <1>;
            hash@1 {
                algo = "sha1";
            };
        };
    };
    configurations {
        default = "conf@1";
        conf@1 {
            description = "Linux Kernel, FDT blob.";
            kernel = "kernel@1";
            fdt = "fdt@1";
        };
    };
};

When I tried to boot the resulting image via bootm or sysboot I get the error:

Loading Kernel Image ... Image too large: increase CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN

So then in the file “p2771-0000.h” I added the line

#define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN (22 << 20)

Then if I attempt a boot using “bootm” I get stalled at “Starting kernel …”:

Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # load mmc 1:1 0x90000000 /boot/tx2_nosig.itb
20550003 bytes read in 2371 ms (8.3 MiB/s)
Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # setenv bootargs ${cbootargs}
Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # bootm 0x90000000
## Loading kernel from FIT Image at 90000000 ...
   Using 'conf@1' configuration
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... OK
   Trying 'kernel@1' kernel subimage
     Description:  Kernel
     Type:         Kernel Image
     Compression:  uncompressed
     Data Start:   0x900000d4
     Data Size:    20280368 Bytes = 19.3 MiB
     Architecture: AArch64
     OS:           Linux
     Load Address: 0x80080000
     Entry Point:  0x80080000
     Hash algo:    sha1
     Hash value:   338323b244ba0128447646e7af8728f20056f690
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
## Loading fdt from FIT Image at 90000000 ...
   Using 'conf@1' configuration
   Trying 'fdt@1' fdt subimage
     Description:  Device Tree
     Type:         Flat Device Tree
     Compression:  uncompressed
     Data Start:   0x913575fc
     Data Size:    267812 Bytes = 261.5 KiB
     Architecture: AArch64
     Hash algo:    sha1
     Hash value:   7d5d421d71951d312266e04c9bb9017752097346
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x913575fc
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
   reserving fdt memory region: addr=80000000 size=10000
   Using Device Tree in place at 00000000913575fc, end 000000009139bc1f

Starting kernel ...

If I take the ftb config out of the “its” I get a different error:

Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # setenv bootargs ${cbootargs}
Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # load mmc 1:1 0x90000000 /boot/tx2_nosign2.itb
20281983 bytes read in 2347 ms (8.2 MiB/s)
Tegra186 (P2771-0000-500-DN) # bootm 0x90000000
## Loading kernel from FIT Image at 90000000 ...
   Using 'conf@1' configuration
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... OK
   Trying 'kernel@1' kernel subimage
     Description:  Kernel
     Type:         Kernel Image
     Compression:  uncompressed
     Data Start:   0x900000d4
     Data Size:    20280368 Bytes = 19.3 MiB
     Architecture: AArch64
     OS:           Linux
     Load Address: 0x80080000
     Entry Point:  0x80080000
     Hash algo:    sha1
     Hash value:   338323b244ba0128447646e7af8728f20056f690
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000044
ELR:     eff33910
LR:      eff33904
x0 : 00000003967fc074 x1 : 00000000e59ff018
x2 : 0000000000000175 x3 : 0000000000000000
x4 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 00000000eff8a3b6
x6 : ffffffffffffffff x7 : 00000000004d5140
x8 : 00000000813d7430 x9 : 0000000000000008
x10: 9f57402aaf8728f2 x11: 7c8680580056f690
x12: 11d9f43ea0ed1fba x13: 59636207a9934acf
x14: c9255b0cccf5d145 x15: 000c92b7e4afdd77
x16: 0002865c7d1a7e0c x17: c151402a338323b2
x18: 00000000efb2ede0 x19: 00000000effa9500
x20: 00000000effa9500 x21: 000000000000070f
x22: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000efb32dd8
x24: 00000000eff33924 x25: 0000000000000000
x26: 00000000eff9c700 x27: 0000000000000000
x28: 00000000900000d4 x29: 00000000efb2be60

I even tried referencing the uImage from the extlinux.conf file and using sysboot, but that resulted in yet a different failure. Can anyone give me some hints on what to try next?

This version of U-Boot uses an uncompressed Image. uImage is from an older U-Boot. I am not familiar with the features you are trying to work with, but are they specific to a uImage format? Are you modifying U-Boot itself?

I have modified the u-boot build to include the configuration options:

CONFIG_FIT=y
CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE=y
CONFIG_FIT_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_RSA=y

I personally have not yet made u-boot source code changes (other than to increase the BOOTM_LEN as mentioned in the original post).
Ultimately I am attempting to implemented verified boot as described in
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt;hb=HEAD
Verified boot is a feature of the Flat Image Tree (FIT) format described here:
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt;hb=HEAD
and I am just trying to get the basics working before moving on to verified boot.

I couldn’t tell you what difference there is for your changes versus a stock Jetson U-Boot. Someone who has worked on both the current NVIDIA U-Boot and U-Boot with those features will have to comment if enabling the features will work without some other change.

David,

Have you tried the ‘Testing’ section of the ‘FIT Signature Verification’ doc? (http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt;hb=HEAD). It uses sandbox so all testing can be done on your Linux dev system. It might help (if it works w/sandbox) to look at the sandbox CONFIG flags for FIT, and to see what the vboot_test.sh script is doing.

Also, Simon Glass wrote the FIT verification doc. Have you tried contacting him? (sjg@chromium.org)

Tom

Hi,
David_N,I have the same problem,too, did you solvo the problem?,if you did,.can you tell me the resolution, please, I have been blocked by this problem a week, thanks!