Missing Files When Building U-Boot for Creating a Bootable MMC Device

[b-sullender]

I'm trying to build u-boot and create a bootable mmc device, but looking at your code for creating the Debian image leaves me with some questions.

Where did you get the files
https://github.com/inindev/odroid-m1/releases/download/v12.0.1/idbloader.img
and
https://github.com/inindev/odroid-m1/releases/download/v12.0.1/u-boot.itb?

When i build u-boot following the instructions at https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-m1/software/building_u-boot i don't see those files.

These are the files i have after building u-boot

bl31_0x00040000.bin
bl31_0x00069000.bin
bl31_0x0006b000.bin
bl31_0xfdcc1000.bin
bl31_0xfdcce000.bin
bl31_0xfdcd0000.bin
bl31.elf
config.mk
idblock.bin
Kbuild
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS
Makefile
make.sh
PREUPLOAD.cfg
README
rk356x_spl_loader_v1.18.112.bin
snapshot.commit
System.map
tee.bin
u-boot
u-boot.bin
u-boot.cfg
u-boot.cfg.configs
u-boot.dtb
u-boot-dtb.bin
uboot.img
u-boot.lds
u-boot.map
u-boot-nodtb.bin
u-boot.srec
u-boot.sym
usb_update.txt

[inindev]

Are you building mainline u-boot?

Here is the script to build it:
https://github.com/inindev/odroid-m1/blob/main/uboot/make_uboot.sh

sh make_uboot.sh

The script is intended to be run from an arm64 linux device.

[b-sullender]

I'm building U-Boot from https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroidm1-v2017.09 on my x86-64 PC using the instructions I mentioned earlier.

Using your script doesn't quite fit my needs, as I want to create additional partitions on my device. Specifically, I plan to have /var/www on a separate partition and possibly implement a mirror RAID using an SSD.

I'm also doing this to learn the entire process.

However, I'm unsure where to obtain the idbloader.img and u-boot.itb files.

[inindev]

I am not going to be of much help in building the proprietary 2017 downstream u-boot from Rockchip. You have to also run Rockchip x86 binaries as well. The output targets from Rockchip look to be u-boot.itb and possibly u-boot-spl.bin.

The whole purpose of my repos is to build unmodified up-stream distributions directly from the source u-boot and debian repositories.

This should help: https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_U-Boot

[b-sullender]

The whole purpose of my repos is to build unmodified up-stream distributions directly from the source u-boot and debian repositories.

I overlooked that your script was using https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot and not https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot. My mistake.

The output targets from Rockchip look to be u-boot.itb and possibly u-boot-spl.bin

So building from https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot should produce idbloader.img and u-boot.itb. Right? (different names)

You have to also run Rockchip x86 binaries as well

I attempted to compile https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot on ODROID-M1 without including BL31="$atf_file" ROCKCHIP_TPL="$tpl_file" and as you would expect i got errors:

Image 'simple-bin' is missing external blobs and is non-functional: rockchip-tpl atf-bl31.

Did you download these files or compile them. If you compiled them, then what repository's did you use?

[b-sullender]

The rockchip files needed for compiling u-boot for the M1 can be downloaded from the rkbin repository https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin/. It will have the latest updates. Search the repository for rk3568_bl31 and rk3568_ddr_1560MHz to find the files.

[inindev]

I have updated the rkbin binaries from https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin and have new builds you may be interested in:

debian bookworm v12.5 arm64 - rc4
https://github.com/inindev/debian-image/releases

u-boot arm64 inindev v2024.07-rc4
https://github.com/inindev/uboot-rockchip/releases