[ANN] U-Boot v2025.07-rc3 released

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 27 May 2025 at 20:44, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 01:34:48PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 04:03:11PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> > `
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > So it's release day and I have tagged and pushed things out. I will be
> > > updating the next branch shortly. There's still a few things that need
> > > to come in for the release, as fixes, but otherwise I think the next
> > > branch is where most changes should end up.
> > >
> > > We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and is
> > > the same time as the previous meeting. The meeting details itself are:
> > > https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw
> > > May 27th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00)
> > >
> > > To join by phone:
> > > https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=1307528552322&hs=1
> >
> > For today's meeting it was suggested to try and use Google's
> > transcription service to take notes. What follows is a lightly edited
> > copy of the transcript. I will say it took a good amount of time to read
> > and re-edit. I will follow-up with a lightly edited Gemini summary, just
> > to finish evaluating this idea.
>
> And here is Gemini's summary of the transcript:
>
> Release Updates
>
> * Tom Rini announced that Release Candidate 3 (RC3) was released the previous
> day and things are generally in good condition.
> * There's an outstanding issue and revert for the ext4 overflow issue that
> needs addressing.
> * Kernel release v6.15 is now in the device tree rebasing repository, and plans
> are underway to sync and test it with CI.
> * The community is encouraged to test the current state of the master branch on
> available hardware in preparation for the upcoming July release.
> * Regression fixes should be brought to Tom Rini's attention with links for
> tracking.
>
> Kbuild System Updates
>
> * Ilias Apalodimas initiated a discussion about updating the Kbuild system,
> which is significantly outdated.
> * There are two approaches: incremental updates with detailed commit messages
> or a large diff to bring it up to speed quickly.
> * The consensus is to prioritize updating the Kbuild system over maintaining a
> detailed commit history.
> * Ilias has been working on porting patches to bring the system up to v5.1 and
> plans to split makefiles into an include file for easier future syncs.
> * The aim is to get the current updates into the next window and work on
> syncing with v6.15 afterward.
> * There's a desire to enable compiling with LLVM for catching more bugs due to
> its stricter default flags.
>
> QEMU Issue
>
> * There's an ongoing issue with QEMU on the vexpress_ca9x4 platform,
> particularly with TFTP crashing.
> * There's debate about whether the issue lies with QEMU or the U-Boot
> implementation, with suggestions to engage QEMU developers for further
> insights.
> * Peter and Richard Henderson from QEMU have been consulted, and there are
> assumptions that the problem could be due to unaligned accesses and the MMU not
> being enabled, but these assumptions might be incorrect as the TFTP crashes
> early.
> * Ilias plans to debug the issue further by the end of the week.
>
> Continuous Integration (CI) Discussions
>
> * Jesse T asked about making reproducible builds in CI, similar to Buildroot.
> Tom Rini explained that the focus is on using pre-built toolchains to avoid
> compiler build issues.
> * There's interest in setting up a CI bot to test on boards. Ilias Apalodimas
> has past experience with Buildbot and can share configurations. Haiko has also
> worked on tbot and integrating it with GitLab CI.
> * Jesse T raised a bug found by a professor on the DE1 SOC, possibly a compiler
> issue, and shared build scripts for review.
> * A CI discussion about running OSS was initiated by Simon. Ilias mentioned a
> missing kernel module in Alpine, but is working on adding it to Yocto for
> easier testing.
> * Simon has a test that boots Ubuntu 2404 Desktop installer on his lab, but is
> interested in CI testing with smaller images like Alpine.
> * There are challenges with booting OS images from RAM using EFI and handling
> ISO images in CI, leading to discussions about network booting solutions.
>
> Other Topics
>
> * Jesse T mentioned a bug on the D10 standard board, not the D1 SOC, and shared
> pkg builds via IRC.
> * Simon Glass and Ilias talked about a hang when running QEMU on an ARM64
> machine with KVM enabled, possibly related to out-of-memory issues with blob
> list.
>
> Conclusion
>
> The meeting covered various topics, including release updates, Kbuild system
> updates, QEMU issues, CI improvements, and other specific problems encountered.
> The community continues to work on enhancing U-Boot and ensuring its stability
> across different platforms.

The summary seems good enough to me, and is shorter!

- Simon

>
> --
> Tom