doc: boards: amlogic: update documentation for LePotato

Improve documentation.

Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320114609.930145-14-christianshewitt@gmail.com
[narmstrong: fixed doc build]
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>

diff --git a/doc/board/amlogic/libretech-cc.rst b/doc/board/amlogic/libretech-cc.rst
index 596ce45dc42f64c4e26b571634f6c770789881db..08a84a41c06aa1ba308d3b8c10e2a87025a72f8e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/board/amlogic/libretech-cc.rst
+++ b/doc/board/amlogic/libretech-cc.rst
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
 
-U-Boot for LibreTech CCs
-========================
+U-Boot for LibreTech CC 'LePotato' (S905X)
+==========================================
 
-LibreTech CC is a single board computer manufactured by Libre Technology
-with the following specifications:
+LibreTech CC is a Single Board Computer manufactured by Libre Computer Technology with
+the following specifications:
 
-V1:
+v1:
 
  - Amlogic S905X ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core SoC @ 1.5GHz
  - ARM Mali 450 GPU
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ V1:
  - Infrared receiver
  - Jack for CVBS and Audio
 
-V2:
+v2:
 
  - Added SPI NOR
  - Removed Jack
 
 Schematics are available on the manufacturer website.
 
-U-Boot compilation
+U-Boot Compilation
 ------------------
 
 .. code-block:: bash
@@ -37,36 +37,21 @@ U-Boot compilation
 
 Use libretech-cc_v2_defconfig for v2.
 
-Image creation
---------------
-
-To boot the system, u-boot must be combined with several earlier stage
-bootloaders:
-
-* bl2.bin: vendor-provided binary blob
-* bl21.bin: built from vendor u-boot source
-* bl30.bin: vendor-provided binary blob
-* bl301.bin: built from vendor u-boot source
-* bl31.bin: vendor-provided binary blob
-* acs.bin: built from vendor u-boot source
-
-These binaries and the tools required below have been collected and prebuilt
-for convenience at <https://github.com/BayLibre/u-boot/releases/>. These
-apply to both v1 and v2.
-
-For simplified usage, pleaser refer to :doc:`pre-generated-fip` with codename `lepotato`
-
-Download and extract the libretech-cc release from there, and set FIPDIR to
-point to the `fip` subdirectory.
+U-Boot Signing with Pre-Built FIP repo
+--------------------------------------
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ export FIPDIR=/path/to/extracted/fip
+    $ git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip --depth=1
+    $ cd amlogic-boot-fip
+    $ mkdir my-output-dir
+    $ ./build-fip.sh lepotato /path/to/u-boot/u-boot.bin my-output-dir
 
-Alternatively, you can obtain the original vendor u-boot tree which
-contains the required blobs and sources, and build yourself.
-Note that old compilers are required for this to build. The compilers here
-are suggested by Amlogic, and they are 32-bit x86 binaries.
+U-Boot Manual Signing
+---------------------
+
+Amlogic does not provide sources for the firmware and tools needed to create a bootloader
+image so it is necessary to obtain binaries from sources published by the board vendor:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -81,9 +66,7 @@ are suggested by Amlogic, and they are 32-bit x86 binaries.
     $ make
     $ export FIPDIR=$PWD/fip
 
-Once you have the binaries available (either through the prebuilt download,
-or having built the vendor u-boot yourself), you can then proceed to glue
-everything together. Go back to mainline U-Boot source tree then :
+Go back to the mainline U-Boot source tree then:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
@@ -98,51 +81,40 @@ everything together. Go back to mainline U-Boot source tree then :
     $ cp u-boot.bin fip/bl33.bin
 
     $ $FIPDIR/blx_fix.sh \
-       fip/bl30.bin \
-       fip/zero_tmp \
-       fip/bl30_zero.bin \
-       fip/bl301.bin \
-       fip/bl301_zero.bin \
-       fip/bl30_new.bin \
-       bl30
+              fip/bl30.bin \
+              fip/zero_tmp \
+              fip/bl30_zero.bin \
+              fip/bl301.bin \
+              fip/bl301_zero.bin \
+              fip/bl30_new.bin \
+              bl30
 
     $ $FIPDIR/acs_tool.pyc fip/bl2.bin fip/bl2_acs.bin fip/acs.bin 0
 
     $ $FIPDIR/blx_fix.sh \
-       fip/bl2_acs.bin \
-       fip/zero_tmp \
-       fip/bl2_zero.bin \
-       fip/bl21.bin \
-       fip/bl21_zero.bin \
-       fip/bl2_new.bin \
-       bl2
+              fip/bl2_acs.bin \
+              fip/zero_tmp \
+              fip/bl2_zero.bin \
+              fip/bl21.bin \
+              fip/bl21_zero.bin \
+              fip/bl2_new.bin \
+              bl2
 
     $ $FIPDIR/gxl/aml_encrypt_gxl --bl3enc --input fip/bl30_new.bin
     $ $FIPDIR/gxl/aml_encrypt_gxl --bl3enc --input fip/bl31.img
     $ $FIPDIR/gxl/aml_encrypt_gxl --bl3enc --input fip/bl33.bin
     $ $FIPDIR/gxl/aml_encrypt_gxl --bl2sig --input fip/bl2_new.bin --output fip/bl2.n.bin.sig
     $ $FIPDIR/gxl/aml_encrypt_gxl --bootmk \
-               --output fip/u-boot.bin \
-               --bl2 fip/bl2.n.bin.sig \
-               --bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
-               --bl31 fip/bl31.img.enc \
-               --bl33 fip/bl33.bin.enc
+                                  --output fip/u-boot.bin \
+                                  --bl2 fip/bl2.n.bin.sig \
+                                  --bl30 fip/bl30_new.bin.enc \
+                                  --bl31 fip/bl31.img.enc \
+                                  --bl33 fip/bl33.bin.enc
 
-and then write the image to SD with:
+Then write U-Boot to SD or eMMC with:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    $ DEV=/dev/your_sd_device
+    $ DEV=/dev/boot_device
     $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=512 skip=1 seek=1
-    $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=444
-
-Note that Amlogic provides aml_encrypt_gxl as a 32-bit x86 binary with no
-source code. Should you prefer to avoid that, there are open source reverse
-engineered versions available:
-
-1. gxlimg <https://github.com/repk/gxlimg>, which comes with a handy
-   Makefile that automates the whole process.
-2. meson-tools <https://github.com/afaerber/meson-tools>
-
-However, these community-developed alternatives are not endorsed by or
-supported by Amlogic.
+    $ dd if=fip/u-boot.bin.sd.bin of=$DEV conv=fsync,notrunc bs=1 count=440