No bman portals available! - ls1046ardb image on SD card build with Yocto

[renemarcker]

I'm trying to make a image for the ls1046a-rdb by using Yocto. After a long battle with do_fetch errors, I got the Yocto to build correctly and complete. My issue is at the booting on the board, I got an error message:

[ 1.846875] Bman err interrupt handler present
[ 1.851506] Can't get bman-portal@0 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.856947] Can't get bman-portal@10000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.862738] Can't get bman-portal@20000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.868527] Can't get bman-portal@30000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.874317] Can't get bman-portal@40000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.880105] Can't get bman-portal@50000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.885894] Can't get bman-portal@60000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.891684] Can't get bman-portal@70000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.897473] Can't get bman-portal@80000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.903261] Can't get bman-portal@90000 property 'cell-index'
[ 1.909053] No BMan portals available!

and hang there without continue to the Linux prompt.

My process:

1) download Yocto layers 

Source: Layerscape Software Development Kit User Guide for Yocto, Rev. 3.1, 04 October 2021

Install the repo utility:

$ mkdir ~/bin

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo

$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Download the Yocto layers:

$ export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

$ mkdir yocto-sdk

$ cd yocto-sdk

$ repo init -u https://source.codeaurora.org/external/qoriq/qoriq-compoments/yocto-sdk -b dunfell

$ repo sync --no-clone-bundle

2) Build images

Setup the build environment + enter the build folder:

›yocto-sdk/:$ . ./setup-env -m ls1046ardb

Build the Yocto images:

›yocto-sdk/build_ls1046ardb/:$ bitbake -k fsl-image-networking-full

-> got alot of files in "yocto-sdk/build_ls1046ardb/tmp/deploy/images/ls1046ardb"

3) Deployment of SD card
source: Section "4.4.8.9.4 SD Deployment" in the document: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/supporting-information/QORIQ-SDK-2.0-IC-REV0.pdf

Format SD card to a single ext2 partition, starting at sector 4096

$ fdisk dev/sdb

command (m for help): n

command (m for help): p

command (m for help): 1

command (m for help): 4096

command (m for help): 62333951

command (m for help): w

$ sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1

Mount the partition

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sdcard

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdcard

Copy the kernel ad device tree

$ sudo cp <fitImage>.bin /mnt/sdcard

Extract the file system

$ sudo tar zxf fsl-image-networking-ls1046ardb.tar.gz -C /mnt/sdcard

Copy u-boot to the first sectors

$ sudo dd if=u-boot-ls1046ardb.bin of=/dev/sdb seek=8 bs=512

Flush buffers and unmount

$ sync

$ sudo umount /mnt/sdcard

4) Boot the evaluation board

- Connect the SD card to the evaluation board

- Power the evaluation board up

- Stop the U-boot to enter the prompt

=> setenv bootargs "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw earlycon=uart8250,0x21c0500 console=ttyS0,115200"

=> ext2load mmc 0 a0000000 <fitImage>.bin

=> bootm a0000000

[yipingwang]

Please refer to this thread to deploy images built by yocto to SD card.

https://community.nxp.com/t5/Layerscape/How-to-create-a-bootable-SD-for-the-LS1043ARDB/m-p/1297151#M...

Please deploy Kernel Image and the dtb to the /boot folder or rootfs.
# cp Image boot
# cp  fsl-ls1043a-rdb-sdk.dtb boot

=> setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootdelay=5 console=ttyS0,115200;mmcinfo;ext2load mmc 0:1 0xa0000000 /boot/Image;ext2load mmc 0:1 0xb0000000 /boot/fsl-ls1043a-rdb-sdk.dtb;booti 0xa0000000 - 0xb0000000'
=> saveenv