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Follow these steps to update the composite firmware image in QSPI NOR flash. cpld reset boots the board from QSPI NOR flash0 and cpld reset altbank boots the board from QSPI NOR flash1. sf probe 0:1 means that the alternate bank will be written to. So, if the board boots from QSPI NOR flash0 and sf probe 0:1 is entered at the U-Boot prompt, the commands that follow will program QSPI NOR flash1. Obtaining composite firmware image  LSDK includes pre-built firmware images for QSPI NOR flash. The LSDK composite firmware includes RCW+PBI, U-Boot/UEFI, PPA, boot loader environment variables, DPAA1 FMan ucode, QE/uQE firmware, Ethernet PHY firmware, device tree, and lsdk_linux_<arch>.itb images. Refer Flash layout for new boot flow with TF-A for the complete flash memory layout of the images.  On a Linux host machine, download composite firmware image for QSPI boot from nxp.com.    $ wget http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/lsdk<LSDK version>/firmware_<RDB_name>_uboot_qspiboot.img    For example:  $ wget http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/lsdk1812/firmware_ls1046ardb_uboot_qspiboot.img  Flashing composite firmware images to QSPI NOR flash Composite firmware image can be loaded to LS1046ARDB from a TFTP server or from a mass storage device (SD, USB, or SATA). Option 1: Load image from the TFTP server Boot LS1046RDB from QSPI NOR flash. Ensure that the switches are set to boot the board from QSPI NOR flash. For booting from QSPI flash, SW5[1:8] = 00100010 Boot from QSPI NOR flash0: => cpld reset In boot log, you’ll see: Board: LS1046ARDB, boot from QSPI vBank 0 Set up Ethernet connection When board boots up, U-Boot prints a list of enabled Ethernet interfaces. FM1@DTSEC3 [PRIME], FM1@DTSEC4, FM1@DTSEC5, FM1@DTSEC6, FM1@TGEC1, FM1@TGEC2 Set server IP to the IP of the host machine on which you have configured the TFTP server.  => setenv serverip <ipaddress1> Set ethact and ethprime as the Ethernet interface connected to the TFTP server. Refer LS1046ARDB Ethernet port mapping for the mapping of Ethernet port names appearing on the chassis front panel with the port names in U-Boot and Linux. => setenv ethprime <name of interface connected to TFTP server> For example: => setenv ethprime FM1@DTSEC4 => setenv ethact <name of interface connected to TFTP server> For example: => setenv ethact FM1@DTSEC4 Set IP address of the board. You can set a static IP address or, if the board can connect to a dhcp server, you can use the dhcp command. Static IP address assignment: => setenv ipaddr <ipaddress2> => setenv netmask <subnet mask> Dynamic IP address assignment: => dhcp Save the settings. => saveenv Check the connection between the board and the TFTP server. => ping $serverip Using FM1@DTSEC4 device host 192.168.1.1 is alive   Load composite firmware image from the TFTP server Program QSPI NOR flash1: => sf probe 0:1 Flash composite firmware image: => tftp a0000000 firmware_ls1046ardb_uboot_qspiboot.img => print filesize filesize=2351db0 Program composite firmware image to QSPI NOR flash: => sf erase 0x0 +$filesize && sf write 0xa0000000 0x0 $filesize  Address 0x0 is the location of the composite firmware image in QSPI NOR flash.  Refer Flash layout for new boot flow with TF-A for the complete flash memory layout. Boot from QSPI NOR flash1: => cpld reset altbank In boot log, you’ll see: Board: LS1046ARDB, boot from QSPI vBank 4 Ensure that SD card, USB flash drive, or SCSI hard disk installed with LSDK Ubuntu distribution is plugged into the board to boot the board to Ubuntu. If U-Boot does not find LSDK on a mass storage device, it will boot TinyDistro from lsdk_linux_arm64_ tiny.itb stored in QSPI NOR flash. Option 2: Load image from partition on mass storage device (SD, USB, or SATA) Boot LS1046RDB from QSPI NOR flash. Ensure that the switches are set to boot the board from QSPI NOR flash. For booting from QSPI flash, SW5[1:8] = 00100010 Boot from QSPI NOR flash0: => cpld reset In boot log, you’ll see: Board: LS1046ARDB, boot from QSPI vBank 0 Select mass storage device to use. => mmc rescan => mmc info Or => usb start => usb info Or => scsi scan => scsi info Optional – List files on storage device => ls mmc <device:partition> For example: => ls mmc 0:2 Or => ls usb <device:partition> For example: => ls usb 0:1 Or => ls scsi <device:partition> For example: => ls scsi 0:2 Program QSPI NOR flash1: => sf probe 0:1 Load composite firmware image from the storage device => load mmc 0:2 a0000000 <image name> => print filesize For example: => load mmc 0:2 a0000000 firmware_ls1046ardb_uboot_qspiboot.img => print filesize filesize=2351db0 Or => load usb 0:2 a0000000 <image name> => print filesize Or => load scsi 0:2 a0000000 <image name> => print filesize If the ls command fails to run, check that U-Boot in QSPI NOR flash0 supports the command by typing ls at the U-Boot prompt: => ls ls - lists files in a directory (default) Usage: ls <interface> [<dev[:part]> [directory]] - Lists files in directory [directory] of partition [part] on device type [interface] and instance [dev]. If U-Boot does not support this command, then update the composite firmware image in QSPI NOR flash0. Program image to QSPI NOR flash: => sf erase 0x0 +$filesize && sf write 0xa0000000 0x0 $filesize Address  0x0 is the location of the composite firmware image in QSPI NOR flash.  Refer Flash layout for new boot flow with TF-A for the complete flash memory layout.  Boot from QSPI NOR flash1: => cpld reset altbank In boot log, you’ll see: Board: LS1046ARDB, boot from QSPI vBank 4 Ensure that SD card, USB flash drive, or SCSI hard disk installed with LSDK Ubuntu distribution is plugged into the board to boot the board to Ubuntu. If U-Boot does not find LSDK on a mass storage device, it will boot TinyDistro from lsdk_linux_arm64_ tiny.itb stored in QSPI NOR flash.
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The table below shows the mapping of the Ethernet port names appearing on the front panel of the LS1043ARDB chassis with the port names in U-Boot, tinyDistro, and NXP LSDK userland.  Ethernet port mapping Port name on chassis Port name in U-Boot Port name in Linux (tinyDistro) Port name in Linux (LSDK userland) QSGMII.P0 FM1@DTSEC1 eth0 fm1-mac1 QSGMII.P1 FM1@DTSEC2 eth1 fm1-mac2 QSGMII.P2 FM1@DTSEC3 eth2 fm1-mac5 QSGMII.P3 FM1@DTSEC4 eth3 fm1-mac6 RGMII1 FM1@DTSEC5 eth4 fm1-mac3 RGMII2 FM1@DTSEC6 eth5 fm1-mac4 10G Copper FM1@TGEC1 eth6 fm1-mac9 Below is a table that shows the mapping between port numbers (from configuration file), character devices, hardware ports (Rx) and mEMACs for the standard SDK configuration (using RCW protocol 1455). FMC port mapping Port name on chassis XML port number (configuration file) Serdes protocol Character device Hardware port (device tree node) mEMAC (device tree node) QSGMII.P0 1 qsgmii fm0-port-rx0 port@88000 ethernet@e0000 QSGMII.P1 2 qsgmii fm0-port-rx1 port@89000 ethernet@e2000 QSGMII.P2 5 qsgmii fm0-port-rx4 port@8c000 ethernet@e8000 QSGMII.P3 6 qsgmii fm0-port-rx5 port@8d000 ethernet@ea000 RGMII1 3 rgmii fm0-port-rx2 port@8a000 ethernet@e4000 RGMII2 4 rgmii fm0-port-rx3 port@8b000 ethernet@e6000 10G Copper 9 xgmii fm0-port-rx6 port@90000 ethernet@f0000
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This document introduces porting TDM Linux driver working in internal loopback mode to do verification during custom boards bringing up and verification stage. 1. TDM Interface Configuration to Support Internal Loopback Mode 2. Modify Linux Kernel Driver to Make TDM Working in Internal Loopback Mode 3. Build TDM Driver into Linux Kernel and do verification on the target board
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The table below shows the mapping of the Ethernet port names appearing on the front panel of the LS1046ARDB chassis with the port names in U-Boot, tinyDistro, and NXP LSDK userland.  Port name on chassis Port name in U-Boot Port name in Linux (tinyDistro) Port name in Linux (LSDK userland) RGMII1 FM1@DTSEC3 eth0 fm1-mac3 RGMII2 FM1@DTSEC4 eth1 fm1-mac4 SGMII1 FM1@DTSEC5 eth2 fm1-mac5 SGMII2 FM1@DTSEC6 eth3 fm1-mac6 10G Copper FM1@TGEC1 eth4 fm1-mac9 10G SEP+ FM1@TGEC2 eth5 fm1-mac10
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The attached patch is to support Aquantia AQR107 in LS1043A.
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On the LS1046ARDB, there are 2 1G SGMII with PHY, but sometimes customer want to get PHY-less connection to evaluate the performance, so they may have to change the non-fixed link properties into fixed-link by reconfiguration the SW configuration. In this document, it will give details of configuring the LS1046ARDB to support the fixed-link requirement with LSDK2108 focus on the DTS and Linux kernel. The ethernet MAC in this document is FM1 mEMAC6: 1AE_A000h. Because there is no PHY-less connection on board. We only provide the status when the MAC has been configured.
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When customer only has SD/eMMC on the customer board, when they don’t have CWTAP in hand, how do they boot the customer board(bare board) after the board come back from the factory for the first time. This document describes the steps how to use the CMSIS-DAP in this situation as a reference for user.
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CMSIS-DAP is a useful tool and exists in some NXP reference boards, but how to use it. This document describes the steps how to use the CMSIS-DAP in the LS1034ARDB as a reference for user.
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On the LX2160ARDB, there are 2 25G SFP interfaces, but no 10G SFP interface. When customer want to test the 10G SFPs to evaluate the performance, they have to change the 25G SFP interfaces into 10G by reconfiguration the SW configuration. In this document, it will give details of configuring the LX2160ARDB to support the customer’s 10G SFP interfaces requirement with LSDK2108. At the end, an image will be generated to deployed into the SD card. Because SD card is a convenient way boot up LX2160ARDB, if one wrong move could brick the system, the customer could unplug the SD card to repeat the steps below.
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ENETC is a PCI Integrated End Point(IEP). IEP implements peripheral devices in an SoC such that software sees them as PCIe device. ENETC is an evolution of BDR(Buffer Descriptor Ring) based networking IPs. Key goal of the DPDK is to provide a simple, complete framework for fast packet processing in data plane applications. Using the APIs provided as part of the framework, applications can leverage the capabilities of underlying network infrastructure.DPDK been prominent software in user space for networking applications pushes for eNetc driver to be written in user space. This document introduces overview of the NXP ENETC and how its driver is implemented and integrated into the DPDK. DPDK eNetc Driver support features queue start/stop, MTU update, promisc, Unicast and multicast MAC filtering, rss hash, crc offload, vlan offload, Rx checksum offload, basic stats. 1. ENETC Hardware Introduction 2. LS1028 Default ENETC Driver 3. User Space eNetc Driver design 4. DPDK eNetc Driver support features 5. Setup DPDK applications over ENETC platform
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This document introduces how to configure software to disable the second DDR controller and only use DDR1 on LX2160A platforms, includes configuring RCW to disable clock of DDR2 by using DEVDISR register and setting HN-F SAM control registers to disable DDR2 in CodeWarrior and atf software coding. 1. Configure RCW to Disable clock of DDR2 by using DEVDISR register 2. Configuring HN-F SAM control register to disable DDR2 in CodeWarrior 3. ATF coding to configure HN-F SAM control register to disable the specific DDR controller
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UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) describes an interface between the operating system (OS) and the platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard, modern environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications. 1. UEFI boot flow 2. Build UEFI firmware images on the host PC 3. Generate Composite Firmware with UEFI Firmware Images 4. Deploy LSDK distro boot with UEFI
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This document uses LS1043AQDS as an example to introduce how to use attaching method to debug atf and u-boot on QorIQ LS ARM 64 bit target boards with CodeWarrior for ARMv8. 1. Build ATF and U-boot with Debugging information Enabled in LSDK 2. Debug BL2 in ATF with CodeWarrior for ARMv8 3. Debug BL31 in ATF with CodeWarrior for ARMv8 4. Debugging u-boot with CodeWarrior for ARMv8
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Introduction.   CodeWarrior TAP combined with a host debugger provide control and visibility into your target embedded system through a debugging process. Main tasks to test a Reference Design Board with are: Flash an storage device for userspace debugging and recovering a board. RCW and PBL configuration. DDR and SerDes configuration. DDR and SerDes validation. U-Boot and Kernel debug For all of them and every activity involving real hardware, a link is needed nevertheless is a very straightforward process that is going to be crawled in this document.   Hardware List.   CodeWarrior TAP USB cable. USB A-Mini-B. CodeWarrior TAP TIP CWH-CTP-CTX10-YE. COP connector. CodeWarrior TAP Base Unit. CWH-CTP-BASE-HE. Host computer. Processor: Windows® OS: Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 2 GHz or faster, Intel® Xeon™, Intel® Core™, AMD Athlon™ 64, AMD Opteron™, or later Linux® OS: 1.8 GHz Intel® Pentium® class processor (or better). 64-bit host OS required. Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 64-bit Microsoft® Windows 10 64-bit RHEL 7.8, 8.2 64-bit CentOS 7.8, 8.2 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit Fedora 31 64-bit Mint 19.3 64-bit Memory. At least 2 GB of RAM At least 3 GB of free disk space NXP Reference Board featuring. LS2088A. LS1012A. LS1043A. LS1088A. LS1046A.   Power-up set-up.   Connect debugger and target's end to each other, while both of them are powered off. Connect TAP TIP multipin connector to TAP multipin socket pushing them.     Ribbon cable red side has to be on TIP pin 1 side and Target COP pin 1 side, look for CPU/Processor silkscreen and pin 1 label. See below examples.            Note that CPU JTAG silkscreen label is in the red box, but also may be visible the 1 label. Power up CWTAP. The most efficient way to set up CWTAP is using USB cable, due to can be both powered and communicated with just one cable. Connect USB to Host PC and wait for TX LED to go green blinking.     If communication is directly to host, considerate that you'll be joined into a private network and you will not have internet access. Power up Target. Connect target to DC supply and turn on power switch and press reset button (needed for boards which don't have a power switch). Create a connection in CodeWarrior.   Open CodeWarrior previously previously set up and with a workspace selected. Make sure that Target Connections window is visible, if not, look for it in Window > Show view > Other.   Every target connection desired has to be based on CW predefined board connections. Predefined connections are processor oriented and have a default configuration, you cannot and should not override this values, e.g., MAC field for TAP probe, you should duplicate and then customize it. Click on the reference board that you have, then duplicate, name new target and save.     Double click or click edit to enter TAP MAC value. Settings are initialized based on the duplicated board, it's recommended to just update MAC. Click on look for probes, select the one that matches your MAC and save.     Save. Serial number field is updated and you are notified of unsaved changes, is the asterisk at the left of your duplicate name, save (ctrl + s) and you may close the connection data is done now.     Open a project or create a new one. I created a new project to simply read RCW inside NOR Flash Bank 0 of LS1043ARDB following the below process.         Then, open Connections View to test the new connection based on custom connection data created before. Click on recheck connection button (green play button) and connection status should change from no-link (connection button right side) to connection working.     Diagnose connection.   Go to Target Connections view and click diagnose connection, Connection Diagnostics view should be popped up and log different tests to ensure that there is a target connection and SOC modules are accessible.     At this point, the connection is made and is already tested, but in this document, RCW will also be dumped into our project just to work ourselves with the connection already made. Under Component Inspector view go to Import tab, select Import From Target and click Read from target.     Results are display in text box as: RCWSR registers were successfully read from the target and imported! RCWSR1:0x08100010 RCWSR2:0x0A000000 RCWSR3:0x00000000 RCWSR4:0x00000000 RCWSR5:0x14550002 RCWSR6:0x80004012 RCWSR7:0xE0025000 RCWSR8:0xC1002000 RCWSR9:0x00000000 RCWSR10:0x00000000 RCWSR11:0x00000000 RCWSR12:0x00038800 RCWSR13:0x00000000 RCWSR14:0x00001101 RCWSR15:0x00000096 RCWSR16:0x00000001 That should save a connection to a CWTAP to reuse with that same MAC intended to a any RDB that features the selected processor. Later on you can recover LS Series processors, flash, configure or validate a board. Please ask any question you may have. Best regards, Joseph
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Quick start to recover a ATF in a damaged storage device. In this case, a blanked LS1012AFRWY QSPI, which is the only BL2 and FIP storage device on board, is restored using CW TAP, CW 4NET and Flex-Installer. Download firmware using flex-installer   nxplayerscape@nxp-global-cas:~/Downloads/josephs-downloads/Flex-Installer-LDP$ flex-installer -i download -f firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspi.boot Please specify correct '-m <machine>' Valid machine name: ls1012ardb ls1012afrwy ls1021atwr ls1028ardb ls1043ardb ls1046ardb ls1046afrwy ls1088ardb_pb ls2088ardb lx2160ardb_rev2 lx2162aqds  imx6qpsabresd imx6qsabresd imx6sllevk imx7ulpevk imx8mmevk imx8mnevk imx8mpevk imx8mqevk imx8qmmek imx8qxpmek imx8ulpevk  nxplayerscape@nxp-global-cas:~/Downloads/josephs-downloads/Flex-Installer-LDP$ flex-installer -i download -f firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspi.boot -m ls1012afrwy    Downloading http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/sdk2110/firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspi.boot ...   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 nxplayerscape nxplayerscape 0 abr  6 13:27 firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspi.boot    Downloading http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/sdk2110/boot_LS_arm64_lts_5.10.tgz ...   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100  342M  100  342M    0     0  5695k      0  0:01:01  0:01:01 --:--:-- 5752k    Downloading http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/sdk2110/rootfs_sdk2110_ubuntu_main_arm64.tgz ...   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100  809M  100  809M    0     0  5641k      0  0:02:26  0:02:26 --:--:-- 3109k Downloaded distro images [Done] nxplayerscape@nxp-global-cas:~/Downloads/josephs-downloads/Flex-Installer-LDP$ flex-installer -i download -f firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspiboot.img Please specify correct '-m <machine>' Valid machine name: ls1012ardb ls1012afrwy ls1021atwr ls1028ardb ls1043ardb ls1046ardb ls1046afrwy ls1088ardb_pb ls2088ardb lx2160ardb_rev2 lx2162aqds  imx6qpsabresd imx6qsabresd imx6sllevk imx7ulpevk imx8mmevk imx8mnevk imx8mpevk imx8mqevk imx8qmmek imx8qxpmek imx8ulpevk  nxplayerscape@nxp-global-cas:~/Downloads/josephs-downloads/Flex-Installer-LDP$ flex-installer -i download -f firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspiboot.img -m ls1012afrwy    Downloading http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/sdk2110/firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspiboot.img ...   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100 1617k    0 1617k    0     0  1529k      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 1529k -rw-rw-r-- 1 nxplayerscape nxplayerscape 1656690 oct 25  2021 firmware_ls1012afrwy_qspiboot.img boot_LS_arm64_lts_5.10.tgz already exists rootfs_sdk2110_ubuntu_main_arm64.tgz already exists Downloaded distro images [Done] Create a PBL project   Note: Need to create a custom board connection based on: How to create a CWTAP to LS Series Processors JTAG-Link. Try to dump 16 MB of memory.   Look for downloaded firmware   Flash it to qspi using flash programmer.   Press the reset button on LS1012AFRWY. Doesn't need to disconnect CWTAP.   Hope this helps when no storage device has a valid binary to get to U-boot, when a board is running U-Boot or Tiny Distro, it can update any SW easily. Ask any questions you may have. Best regards, Joseph
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How to bring up a card when the flash is blank, or the image is corrupted. How to boot cards from various boot mode when changed the RCW as requirements. This documentation will use LS1046ARDB as new board to realize the functions (all target board in the document is LS1046ARDB). Content Bring up LS1046A with CodeWarrior TAP Boot up from the SD card Compile PBL binary from RCW source file Compile the PBL binary into firmware Program the firmware into the target board (LS1046ARDB) Boot up from the QSPI Compile firmware from RCW source file Program the firmware into the target board (LS1046ARDB) Boot up from the eMMC Enable the on board eMMC Compile firmware from RCW source file Program the firmware into the target board (LS1046ARDB)
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The BareMetal framework targets to support the scenarios that need low latency, real-time response, and high-performance. There is no OS running on the cores and customer-specific application runs on that directly. This document describes how to develop customer-specific application based on BareMetal framework. The directory “app” stored in u-boot repository includes the use cases for testing GPIO, I2C, IRQ init, QSPI, Ethernet, USB, PCIe, CAN, ENETC and SAI features. 1. GPIO use case 2. I2C use case 3. IRQ use case 4. QSPI Use case 5. Ethernet use case 6. USB Use case 7. PCIe use case 8. CAN Use Case 9. ENETC Use Case 10. SAI Use Case 11. Build and Run the Baremetal Application
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1. FMan VSP Hardware Overview 2. The usage of Virtual Storage Profiles 3. FMan VSP Driver 4. Traffic bifurcation using VSP on LS1046ARDB
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1. Fuse Provisioning Utility Introduction 2. Input File for Fuse Provisioning Tool 3. Build Fuse Provisioning Firmware Image with flex-builder and Deploy the Firmware Image 4. Build and Deploy Fuse Provisioning Image Manually 5. Validate Fuse Provisioning
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This document introduces basic concept of Power Management, LS1028 RCW configuration to enable GPIO, Linux Kernel source and device tree modification to support GPIO wakeup, Kernel configuration to enable sleep feature and GPIO wakeup driver, export GPIO pin and enable interrupt, Order system to sleep and trigger GPIO interrupt to wake up the system.
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