Burning_firmware

Burning the firmware

Prepare prerequisites

Download prebuilt Semihalf released image:

EDK2 SH 1.0: CN913x-DB

EDK2 SH 1.0: MacchiatoBin

EDK2 SH 1.1: CN913x CEx7 Evaluation Board

or build your own image by following instruction from: Build instructions

Update firmware from u-boot:

Please follow instructions from SolidRun documentation.

Update firmware from EDK2:

1. Copy the image onto USB stick and insert it into the board.

2. Enter 'UEFI Shell' by pressing ESC at boot process and selecting "Boot Manager" -> "UEFI Shell" from UEFI UI.

3. Find the filesystem with the image:

   Shell> ls fs0:
   [...]
   Shell> ls fs3:
   Directory of: fs3:\
   03/08/2022  10:22           2,339,056  flash-image.bin
             1 File(s)   2,339,056 bytes
             0 Dir(s)
   
   

4. fupdate is a custom command for updating raw firmware image (i.e. flash-image.bin binary) in a boot media of choice. SPI, MMC or SD storage devices are supported. Available media can be listed as below:

   Shell> fupdate list
   Handle  Path
   spi     spi
   A4      VenHw(0D51905B-B77E-452A-A2C0-ECA0CC8D514A,00006EF00000000000)/eMMC(0x0)/Ctrl(0x0)
   A5      VenHw(0D51905B-B77E-452A-A2C0-ECA0CC8D514A,00006EF00000000000)/eMMC(0x0)/Ctrl(0x1)
   A6      VenHw(0D51905B-B77E-452A-A2C0-ECA0CC8D514A,00006EF00000000000)/eMMC(0x0)/Ctrl(0x2)
   AA      VenHw(0D51905B-B77E-452A-A2C0-ECA0CC8D514A,000078F20000000000)/SD(0x0)
   

5. Burn the image using 'fupdate' command. Refer to help fupdate contents for details. Example:

   fupdate fs3:flash-image.bin spi
   

Capsule update

The standard, generic signed capsule update is fully supported in the upstream EDK2 code base of Marvell SoC's. For more details, please refer to official materials.