Use the procedure documented below to install the U-Boot firmware, Linux kernel and filesystem images to an SD Card the STM32MP1 module will be bootable from. Having completed the installation, the STM32MP1 SOM will boot to Linux from the SD Card on next reset / power on.
Please note that the installation will erase files previously installed on your SD Card. The SD card size should be at least 2GB for the Linux kernel and filesystem images to fit on the card.
- Insert SD card to the board.
- Follow the instructions in the Section 5 of https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/STM32MP15_Discovery_kits_-_Starter_Package#Installing_the_STM32CubeProgrammer_tool to install the STM32CubeProgrammer Tool to your host.
- Add STM32_Programmer_CLI to your PATH:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/bin:
$ STM32_Programmer_CLI
[psl@sergmir programmer]$ STM32_Programmer_CLI
-------------------------------------------------------------------
STM32CubeProgrammer v2.7.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage :
STM32_Programmer_CLI.exe [command_1] [Arguments_1][[command_2]
[Arguments_2]...]
...
- Power off the board and select the USB Serial Downloader mode (see in Selecting Boot Device).
- Check that the programming USB port appeared on the host (note the "Device Index" in the output):
-------------------------------------------------------------------
STM32CubeProgrammer v2.7.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
===== DFU Interface =====
Total number of available STM32 device in DFU mode: 1
Device Index : USB1
USB Bus Number : 001
USB Address Number : 004
Product ID : DFU in HS Mode @Device ID /0x500, @Revision ID
/0x0000
Serial number : 003000193338511534383330
Firmware version : 0x0110
Device ID : 0x0500
- Download the Emcraft release images from Emcraft site and unpack them into the arbitrary directory. (If you are installing the images built by Yocto, navigate to builddir/tmp-glibc/deploy/images/stm32mp1-som directory):
$ ls -l
total 203344
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psl psl 208217109 Apr 27 13:52 images-stm32mp1-3.0.0.tar.bz2
$ tar xfj images-stm32mp1-3.0.0.tar.bz2
$ ls -l
total 961696
drwxr-xr-x 3 psl psl 4096 Apr 16 21:53 arm-trusted-firmware
drwxr-xr-x 2 psl psl 4096 Apr 16 20:55 bootloader
-rw-r--r-- 1 psl psl 558419968 Apr 20 20:59 emcraft-rootfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
drwxrwxr-x 4 psl psl 4096 Apr 27 14:49 flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 psl psl 208217109 Apr 27 13:52 images-stm32mp1-3.0.0.tar.bz2
drwxr-xr-x 2 psl psl 4096 Mar 8 20:46 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 psl psl 67108864 Apr 20 20:57 st-image-bootfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
-rw-r--r-- 1 psl psl 134217728 Apr 20 18:31 st-image-userfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
-rw-r--r-- 1 psl psl 16777216 Apr 20 18:31 st-image-vendorfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
$
- Use the SD card Flash Layout file for programming the images to SD card:
[psl@sergmir 3.0.0]$ STM32_Programmer_CLI -c port=usb1 -w flashlayout_
emcraft-rootfs/trusted/FlashLayout_sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.tsv
-------------------------------------------------------------------
STM32CubeProgrammer v2.7.0
-------------------------------------------------------------------
USB speed : High Speed (480MBit/s)
Manuf. ID : STMicroelectronics
Product ID : DFU in HS Mode @Device ID /0x500, @Revision ID
/0x0000
SN : 003000193338511534383330
FW version : 0x0110
Device ID : 0x0500
Device name : STM32MP1
Device type : MPU
Device CPU : Cortex-A7
Start Embedded Flashing service
Memory Programming ...
Opening and parsing file: tf-a-stm32mp1-som-serialboot.stm32
File : tf-a-stm32mp1-som-serialboot.stm32
Size : 237896 Bytes
Partition ID : 0x01
Download in Progress:
[==================================================] 100%
File download complete
Time elapsed during download operation: 00:00:00.777
RUNNING Program ...
PartID: :0x01
Start operation done successfully at partition 0x01
Flashlayout Programming ...
[==================================================] 100%
Running Flashlayout Partition ...
Flashlayout partition started successfully
Memory Programming ...
Opening and parsing file: u-boot-stm32mp1-som-trusted.stm32
File : u-boot-stm32mp1-som-trusted.stm32
Size : 663332 Bytes
Partition ID : 0x03
Download in Progress:
[==================================================] 100%
File download complete
Time elapsed during download operation: 00:00:00.418
...
Download in Progress:
[==================================================] 100%
File download complete
Time elapsed during download operation: 00:00:51.346
RUNNING Program ...
PartID: :0x24
Start operation done successfully at partition 0x24
Flashing service completed successfully
$
- Power off the board.
- Set S4 for booting from SD Card.
- Connect with a wire JP3.1 and JP2 (any pin) on the baseboard. This will provide initial 3.3V power to SD Card.
- Apply the power and check the system boots from SD card:
NOTICE: CPU: STM32MP157AAA Rev.B
NOTICE: Model: Emcraft STM32MP157 SOM rev 1A, https://emcraft.com
INFO: Reset reason (0x15):
INFO: Power-on Reset (rst_por)
INFO: Using SDMMC
INFO: Instance 1
INFO: Boot used partition fsbl1
NOTICE: BL2: v2.2-r2.0(debug):v2.2-stm32mp-r2-2-g7aca41fc2
NOTICE: BL2: Built : 18:25:18, Mar 31 2021
...
- Alternatively, a bootable SD card could be prepared on the host:
- In the images directory, run the command below:
$ ./scripts/create_sdcard_from_flashlayout.sh flashlayout_emcraft-
rootfs/trusted/FlashLayout_sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.tsv
Create Raw empty image: flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs/trusted/../../
FlashLayout_sdcard_
stm32mp1-som-trusted.raw of 1536MB
Create partition table:
[CREATED] part 1: fsbl1 [partition size 256.0 KiB]
[CREATED] part 2: fsbl2 [partition size 256.0 KiB]
[CREATED] part 3: ssbl [partition size 2.0 MiB]
[CREATED] part 4: boot [partition size 64.0 MiB]
[CREATED] part 5: vendorfs [partition size 16.0 MiB]
[CREATED] part 6: rootfs [partition size sectors,
746.0 1.5
MiB]
[CREATED] part 7: userfs [partition size 707.5 MiB]
Partition table from flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs/trusted/../../
FlashLayout_sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.raw
Populate raw image with image content:
[ FILLED ] part 1: fsbl1, image: arm-trusted-firmware/tf-
a-stm32mp1-som-trusted.stm32
[ FILLED ] part 2: fsbl2, image: arm-trusted-firmware/tf-
a-stm32mp1-som-trusted.stm32
[ FILLED ] part 3: ssbl, image: bootloader/u-boot-stm32mp1
-som-trusted.stm32
[ FILLED ] part 4: boot, image: st-image-bootfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
[ FILLED ] part 5: vendorfs, image: st-image-vendorfs-openstlinux
-weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
[ FILLED ] part 6: rootfs, image: emcraft-rootfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
[ FILLED ] part 7: userfs, image: st-image-userfs-openstlinux-
weston-stm32mp1-som.ext4
##################################################################
##################################################################
RAW IMAGE generated: flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs/trusted/../../
FlashLayout_sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.raw
WARNING: before to use the command dd, please umount all the partitions
associated to SDCARD.
sudo umount `lsblk --list | grep mmcblk0 | grep part | gawk
'{ print $7 }' | tr '\n' ' '`
To put this raw image on sdcard:
sudo dd if=flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs/trusted/../../FlashLayout_
sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.raw of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8M
conv=fdatasync status=progress
(mmcblk0 can be replaced by:
sdX if it's a device dedicated to receive the raw image
(where X can be a, b, c, d, e)
################################################################
################################################################
[psl@sergmir 3.0.0]$
- Insert SD card to the host and the run command above to program:
$ sudo dd if=flashlayout_emcraft-rootfs/trusted/../../FlashLayout_
sdcard_stm32mp1-som-trusted.raw of=/dev/ bs=8M conv=
fdatasync status=progress
...
