pmos/device-pine64-pinenote: fix flash procedure #1345

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opened 2025-06-21 21:49:05 +00:00 by forge · 3 comments

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2025-06-21 21:56:10 +00:00

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  # enable `write-partition-table` commands
  rkdeveloptool reboot-maskrom
  rkdeveloptool boot rk356x_spl_loader_v1.12.112.bin

  # write new GPT partition table
  rkdeveloptool write-partition-table partition_table_standard2.txt

  # write new u-boot
  rkdeveloptool write 64 idblock.bin
  rkdeveloptool write-partition uboot uboot.img

After this is setup, I can leverage postmarketos' rkdevelop flasher to flash , but I need to integrate these steps somehow in postmarketos.

The full device flash hasn't been updated for the second PineNote batch. Where it blocks is that pmbootstrap has no mechanism to flash a new partition table and u-boot with rkdeveloptool. I can manually flash by following https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image/tree/trixie/partition_tables, or: ``` # enable `write-partition-table` commands rkdeveloptool reboot-maskrom rkdeveloptool boot rk356x_spl_loader_v1.12.112.bin # write new GPT partition table rkdeveloptool write-partition-table partition_table_standard2.txt # write new u-boot rkdeveloptool write 64 idblock.bin rkdeveloptool write-partition uboot uboot.img ``` After this is setup, I can leverage postmarketos' rkdevelop flasher to flash , but I need to integrate these steps somehow in postmarketos.

forge commented

2025-06-21 23:40:59 +00:00

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The following partition table has proven to work:
mtdparts=rk3566mmc:0x3FC0@0x40(idbloader),0x20000@0x4000(uboot),0x1000@0x24000(waveform),0x800@0x25000(uboot_env),0x20000@0x25800(logo),0x85800@0x45800(boot:bootable),-@0xcb000(os1:grow)

Then we can follow the above steps. I won't care about getting pmbootstrap support, as it seems out of scope.

The following partition table has proven to work: `mtdparts=rk3566mmc:0x3FC0@0x40(idbloader),0x20000@0x4000(uboot),0x1000@0x24000(waveform),0x800@0x25000(uboot_env),0x20000@0x25800(logo),0x85800@0x45800(boot:bootable),-@0xcb000(os1:grow)` Then we can follow the above steps. I won't care about getting pmbootstrap support, as it seems out of scope.

forge commented

2025-06-22 02:32:09 +00:00

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Fixed: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote)

And added ATF BL31 to u-boot: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6698

Fixed: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PineNote_(pine64-pinenote) And added ATF BL31 to u-boot: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6698

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