Upgrade boot firmware for ST mp1 platform in demo.

[wmamills]

The ST demo is still using the boot firmware from OpenAMP v2023.10
There is no know issue with upgrading it, it just did not get done.

Consideration should be made to improving the method of creating the ST sdcard or template.
ST has scripts that can be used or the newer capabilities of make-image-target could be used.

[arnopo]

The ST demo is still using the boot firmware from OpenAMP v2023.10 There is no know issue with upgrading it, it just did not get done.

Update of software component are associated to the update to Yocto scarthgap
See OpenAMP/openamp-docs#35 for details
No plan yet to update software components version for nanbield.

Consideration should be made to improving the method of creating the ST sdcard or template. ST has scripts that can be used or the newer capabilities of make-image-target could be used.

could you detail what you have in mind? Yocto generates the wic image , at least in the ST distribution

[wmamills]

I am talking about the generic-armv7a images here, not the ST reference image.

For generic images the OS image is built independent of the boot firmware.
For kv260 this is simple as boot firmware is on SPI-NOR and OS image is on SD Card.
For ZCU102 this means using MSDOS partition table and adding boot.bin to the ESP(EFI) dir

For ST platforms it is a bit more complex. Last time I just created a "template" that had the needed partitions and a blank VFAT partition that I populated. This is similar to how we tested generic OS images on LAVA.

I ran out of time to update this template this time so I just used the one from last time.

I also wanted to look at improving this process to see if we could create the needed partitions on the fly from firmware components already deployed. There are several methods to do this (wic, ST scripts, my make-image-targets). I just need to figure out which one fits into the flow best.

[wmamills]

(and YES we have the updated firmware components built from scarthgap. The ST reference build is used to get the boot firmware. The Xilinx reference build is also used to get the boot firmware for Zynqmp platforms.)