doc/README.ae250

Andes Technology SoC AE250
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AE250 is the mainline SoC produced by Andes Technology using NX25 CPU core
base on RISC-V architecture.

AE250 has integrated both AHB and APB bus and many periphals for application
and product development.

NX25-AE250
=========

NX25-AE250 is the SoC with AE250 hardcore CPU.

Configurations
==============

CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT:
	If you want to boot this system from SPI ROM and bypass e-bios (the
	other boot loader on ROM). You should undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
	in "include/configs/nx25-ae250.h".

Build and boot steps
====================

build:
1. Prepare the toolchains and make sure the $PATH to toolchains is correct.
2. Use `make nx25-ae250_defconfig` in u-boot root to build the image.

Verification
====================

Target
====================
1. startup
2. relocation
3. timer driver
4. uart driver
5. mac driver
6. mmc driver
7. spi driver

Steps
====================
1. Define CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is loaded via gdb from ram.
2. Undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT to build u-boot which is booted from spi rom.
3. Ping a server by mac driver
4. Scan sd card and copy u-boot image which is booted from flash to ram by sd driver.
5. Burn this u-boot image to spi rom by spi driver
6. Re-boot u-boot from spi flash with power off and power on.

Messages
====================
U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-g824f89a (Dec 21 2017 - 16:51:26 +0800)

DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   mmc@f0e00000: 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
In:    serial@f0300000
Out:   serial@f0300000
Err:   serial@f0300000
Net:
Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - be:dd:d7:e4:e8:10
eth0: mac@e0100000

RISC-V # version
U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00033-gb265b91-dirty (Dec 22 2017 - 13:54:21 +0800)

riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 7.2.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.29

RISC-V # setenv ipaddr 10.0.4.200 ;
RISC-V # setenv serverip 10.0.4.97 ;
RISC-V # ping 10.0.4.97 ;
Using mac@e0100000 device
host 10.0.4.97 is alive

RISC-V # mmc rescan
RISC-V # fatls mmc 0:1
   318907   u-boot-ae250-64.bin
     1252   hello_world_ae250_32.bin
   328787   u-boot-ae250-32.bin

3 file(s), 0 dir(s)

RISC-V # sf probe 0:0 50000000 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB

RISC-V # sf test 0x100000 0x1000
SPI flash test:
0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps
1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps
2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps
3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps
Test passed
0 erase: 36 ticks, 111 KiB/s 0.888 Mbps
1 check: 29 ticks, 137 KiB/s 1.096 Mbps
2 write: 40 ticks, 100 KiB/s 0.800 Mbps
3 read: 20 ticks, 200 KiB/s 1.600 Mbps

RISC-V # fatload mmc 0:1 0x600000 u-boot-ae250-32.bin
reading u-boot-ae250-32.bin
328787 bytes read in 324 ms (990.2 KiB/s)

RISC-V # sf erase 0x0 0x51000
SF: 331776 bytes @ 0x0 Erased: OK

RISC-V # sf write 0x600000 0x0 0x50453
device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x50453
SF: 328787 bytes @ 0x0 Written: OK

RISC-V # crc32 0x600000 0x50453
crc32 for 00600000 ... 00650452 ==> 692dc44a

RISC-V # crc32 0x80000000 0x50453
crc32 for 80000000 ... 80050452 ==> 692dc44a
RISC-V #

*** power-off and power-on, this U-Boot is booted from spi flash 	***

U-Boot 2018.01-rc2-00032-gf67dd47-dirty (Dec 21 2017 - 13:56:03 +0800)

DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   mmc@f0e00000: 0
SF: Detected mx25u1635e with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 2 MiB
In:    serial@f0300000
Out:   serial@f0300000
Err:   serial@f0300000
Net:
Warning: mac@e0100000 (eth0) using random MAC address - ee:4c:58:29:32:f5
eth0: mac@e0100000
RISC-V #

TODO
====================

Boot bbl and riscv-linux