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+Broadcom TRX Container Partition
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+TRX is Broadcom's official firmware format for the BCM947xx boards. It's used by
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+most of the vendors building devices based on Broadcom's BCM47xx SoCs and is
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+supported by the CFE bootloader.
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+Design of the TRX format is very minimalistic. Its header contains
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+identification fields, CRC32 checksum and the locations of embedded partitions.
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+Its purpose is to store a few partitions in a format that can be distributed as
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+a standalone file and written in a flash memory.
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+
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+Container can hold up to 4 partitions. The first partition has to contain a
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+device executable binary (e.g. a kernel) as it's what the CFE bootloader starts
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+executing. Other partitions can be used for operating system purposes. This is
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+useful for systems that keep kernel and rootfs separated.
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+
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+TRX doesn't enforce any strict partition boundaries or size limits. All
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+partitions have to be less than the 4GiB max size limit.
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+There are two existing/known TRX variants:
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+1) v1 which contains 3 partitions
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+2) v2 which contains 4 partitions
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+
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+There aren't separated compatible bindings for them as version can be trivialy
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+detected by a software parsing TRX header.
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+
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+Required properties:
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+- compatible : (required) must be "brcm,trx"
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+
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+Example:
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+
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+flash@0 {
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+ partitions {
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+ compatible = "brcm,trx";
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+ };
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+};
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