Hi Julia Yes, if you haven’t done this kind of thing before (building U-Boot, flashing a device etc) it is confusing.
Right now Microkit/seL4 don’t have any guides for setting up a board from scratch, but for the Odroid-C4 I have a pre-built image that you can use and is known to work. If you go to [1] and then download the image you can flash a microSD card or eMMC with a GUI like balenaEtcher or the dd utility. I’ve added a hello world Microkit image to the second partition of the image so once you get into the U-Boot you can try load that and run it. When you power on the Odroid-C4, you’ll see a line from U-Boot: Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 You want to hit some key to stop the auto booting process and now you’ll be in the U-Boot command line where you can run commands. In [1] I’ve listed the commands to try out the hello world. Once you can run Microkit images you can start thinking about how you want to do your development/setup your workflow. There’s lots of different ways to boot images via U-Boot, the most common is either TFTP boot or over the persistent storage like with the hello world image I described above. Booting off the persistent storage is easy to setup but annoying over time as you must constantly take the microSD/eMMC out, mount it, copy over the new image, and then reboot the board. Booting over TFTP requires setting up a TFTP/DHCP server, but can save a lot of time as you develop. I don’t have specific instructions for setting up a TFTP/DHCP server, but you can look on the internet for various guides. The first time I did it on a Linux machine it took 1-2 hours to setup and get working. With either approach, what you’ll want to do is setup the bootcmd [2] of U-Boot such that it automatically runs certain commands when it starts which will save you a lot of time during development. For example, setting up the bootcmd for booting of the microSD would look something like this: ``` setenv bootcmd 'fatload mmc 0:2 0x20000000 loader.img; go 0x20000000’ saveenv ``` Next time you boot it will automatically load the image without any input from you. For setting up TFTP boot, you would do: ``` setenv bootcmd 'dhcp; tftpboot 0x10000000 /<YOUR TFTP DIR>/loader.img; go 0x20000000 saveenv ``` As you can see, it is not a trivial process. It also can't be completely automated by us (the providers of Microkit) as it really depends on how people want to setup their workflow. Please let me know if you run into any issues. [1]: https://github.com/Ivan-Velickovic/flash_uboot_odroidc4/releases/tag/2025.05.21 [2]: https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/usage/environment.html Ivan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
