7.28. Poplar
Poplar is the first development board compliant with the 96Boards Enterprise Edition TV Platform specification.
The board features the Hi3798C V200 with an integrated quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex A53 processor and high performance Mali T720 GPU, making it capable of running any commercial set-top solution based on Linux or Android.
It supports a premium user experience with up to H.265 HEVC decoding of 4K video at 60 frames per second.
SOC Hisilicon Hi3798CV200
CPU Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 64 bit
DRAM DDR3/3L/4 SDRAM interface, maximum 32-bit data width 2 GB
USB Two USB 2.0 ports One USB 3.0 ports
CONSOLE USB-micro port for console support
ETHERNET 1 GBe Ethernet
PCIE One PCIe 2.0 interfaces
JTAG 8-Pin JTAG
EXPANSION INTERFACE Linaro 96Boards Low Speed Expansion slot
DIMENSION Standard 160×120 mm 96Boards Enterprice Edition form factor
WIFI 802.11AC 2*2 with Bluetooth
CONNECTORS One connector for Smart Card One connector for TSI
At the start of the boot sequence, the bootROM executes the so called l-loader binary whose main role is to change the processor state to 64bit mode. This must happen prior to invoking Trusted Firmware-A:
l-loader --> Trusted Firmware-A --> u-boot
7.28.1. How to build
7.28.1.1. Code Locations
7.28.1.2. Build Procedure
Fetch all the above 3 repositories into local host. Make all the repositories in the same ${BUILD_PATH}.
Prepare the AARCH64 toolchain.
Build u-boot using poplar_defconfig
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- poplar_defconfig
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
Build atf providing the previously generated u-boot.bin as the BL33 image
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- all fip SPD=none PLAT=poplar
BL33=u-boot.bin
- Build l-loader (generated the final fastboot.bin)
copy the atf generated files fip.bin and bl1.bin to l-loader/atf/
export ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE=${ATF_SOURCE_PATH)
make
7.28.2. Install Procedure
Copy l-loader/fastboot.bin to a FAT partition on a USB pen drive.
Plug the USB pen drive to any of the USB2 ports
Power the board while keeping S3 pressed (usb_boot)
The system will boot into a u-boot shell which you can then use to write the working firmware to eMMC.
7.28.3. Boot trace
Bootrom start
Boot Media: eMMC
Decrypt auxiliary code ...OK
lsadc voltage min: 000000FE, max: 000000FF, aver: 000000FE, index: 00000000
Entry boot auxiliary code
Auxiliary code - v1.00
DDR code - V1.1.2 20160205
Build: Mar 24 2016 - 17:09:44
Reg Version: v134
Reg Time: 2016/03/18 09:44:55
Reg Name: hi3798cv2dmb_hi3798cv200_ddr3_2gbyte_8bitx4_4layers.reg
Boot auxiliary code success
Bootrom success
LOADER: Switched to aarch64 mode
LOADER: Entering ARM TRUSTED FIRMWARE
LOADER: CPU0 executes at 0x000ce000
INFO: BL1: 0xe1000 - 0xe7000 [size = 24576]
NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware
NOTICE: BL1: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL1: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL1: RAM 0xe1000 - 0xe7000
INFO: BL1: Loading BL2
INFO: Loading image id=1 at address 0xe9000
INFO: Image id=1 loaded at address 0xe9000, size = 0x5008
NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2
INFO: Entry point address = 0xe9000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3c5
NOTICE: BL2: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL2: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL2: Loading BL31
INFO: Loading image id=3 at address 0x129000
INFO: Image id=3 loaded at address 0x129000, size = 0x8038
INFO: BL2: Loading BL33
INFO: Loading image id=5 at address 0x37000000
INFO: Image id=5 loaded at address 0x37000000, size = 0x58f17
NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL31
INFO: Entry point address = 0x129000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3cd
INFO: Boot bl33 from 0x37000000 for 364311 Bytes
NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):v1.3-372-g1ba9c60
NOTICE: BL31: Built : 17:51:33, Apr 30 2017
INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services
INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO: Entry point address = 0x37000000
INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9
U-Boot 2017.05-rc2-00130-gd2255b0 (Apr 30 2017 - 17:51:28 +0200)poplar
Model: HiSilicon Poplar Development Board
BOARD: Hisilicon HI3798cv200 Poplar
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: Hisilicon DWMMC: 0
In: serial@f8b00000
Out: serial@f8b00000
Err: serial@f8b00000
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
starting USB...
USB0: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
USB1: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
scanning usb for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
USB device 0:
Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.00 Prod: Cruzer Blade
Type: Removable Hard Disk
Capacity: 7632.0 MB = 7.4 GB (15630336 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning usb 0:1...
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