Description

HiKey is one of 96boards. Hisilicon Kirin6220 processor is installed on HiKey.

More information are listed in link.

How to build

  1. Code Locations
  1. Build Procedure

  • Fetch all the above repositories into local host. Make all the repositories in the same ${BUILD_PATH}.

  • Create the symbol link to OpenPlatformPkg in edk2.
    $cd ${BUILD_PATH}/edk2
    $ln -sf ../OpenPlatformPkg

  • Prepare AARCH64 && AARCH32 toolchain. Prepare python.

  • If your hikey hardware is built by CircuitCo, update uefi-tools/platform.config first. (optional)
    Uncomment the below sentence. Otherwise, UEFI can't output messages on serial console on hikey.
    BUILDFLAGS=-DSERIAL_BASE=0xF8015000
    If your hikey hardware is built by LeMarker, nothing to do.

  • Build it as debug mode. Create your own build script file or you could refer to build_uefi.sh in l-loader git repository.
    BUILD_OPTION=DEBUG
    export AARCH64_TOOLCHAIN=GCC5
    export UEFI_TOOLS_DIR=${BUILD_PATH}/uefi-tools

    export EDK2_DIR=${BUILD_PATH}/edk2
    EDK2_OUTPUT_DIR=${EDK2_DIR}/Build/HiKey/${BUILD_OPTION}_${AARCH64_TOOLCHAIN}
    # Build fastboot for ARM Trust Firmware. It's used for recovery mode.
    cd ${BUILD_PATH}/atf-fastboot
    CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make PLAT=hikey DEBUG=1
    # Convert DEBUG/RELEASE to debug/release
    FASTBOOT_BUILD_OPTION=$(echo ${BUILD_OPTION} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
    cd ${EDK2_DIR}
    # Build UEFI & ARM Trust Firmware
    ${UEFI_TOOLS_DIR}/uefi-build.sh -b ${BUILD_OPTION} -a ../arm-trusted-firmware hikey
    # Generate l-loader.bin
    cd ${BUILD_PATH}/l-loader
    ln -sf ${EDK2_OUTPUT_DIR}/FV/bl1.bin
    ln -sf ${EDK2_OUTPUT_DIR}/FV/fip.bin
    ln -sf ${BUILD_PATH}/atf-fastboot/build/hikey/${FASTBOOT_BUILD_OPTION}/bl1.bin fastboot.bin
    python gen_loader.py -o l-loader.bin --img_bl1=bl1.bin --img_ns_bl1u=BL33_AP_UEFI.fd
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -c -o start.o start.S
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld -Bstatic -Tl-loader.lds -Ttext 0xf9800800 start.o -o loader
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-objcopy -O binary loader temp
    python gen_loader_hikey.py -o l-loader.bin --img_loader=temp --img_bl1=bl1.bin --img_ns_bl1u=fastboot.bin

  • Generate partition table for aosp. The eMMC capacity is either 4GB or 8GB. Just change "aosp-4g" to "linux-4g" for debian.
    $PTABLE=aosp-4g SECTOR_SIZE=512 bash -x generate_ptable.sh

  1. Setup Console

  • Install ser2net. Use telnet as the console since UEFI fails to display Boot Manager GUI in minicom. If you don't need Boot Manager GUI, just ignore this section.
    $sudo apt-get install ser2net

  • Configure ser2net.
    $sudo vi /etc/ser2net.conf
    Append one line for serial-over-USB in below.
    #ser2net.conf
    2004:telnet:0:/dev/ttyUSB0:115200 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT banner

  • Open the console.
    $telnet localhost 2004
    And you could open the console remotely, too.

  1. Flush images in recovery mode

  • Make sure Pin3-Pin4 on J15 are connected for recovery mode. Then power on HiKey.

  • Remove the modemmanager package. This package may cause the idt tool failure.
    $sudo apt-get purge modemmanager

  • Run the command to download l-loader.bin into HiKey.
    $sudo python hisi-idt.py -d /dev/ttyUSB1 --img1 l-loader.bin

  • Update images. All aosp or debian images could be fetched from link.
    $sudo fastboot flash ptable prm_ptable.img
    $sudo fastboot flash fastboot fip.bin
    $sudo fastboot flash boot boot.img
    $sudo fastboot flash cache cache.img
    $sudo fastboot flash system system.img
    $sudo fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

  1. Boot UEFI in normal mode

  • Make sure Pin3-Pin4 on J15 are open for normal boot mode. Then power on HiKey.

  • Reference link