[U-Boot] [STATUS] v2010.09-rc1 is out / v2010.09 delayed by 2 weeks

[Stefano Babic]

Steve Sakoman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>> Hello everybody:
>>
>> * U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 was released on Fri, 10 Sep 2010.
>>
>> * Release "v2010.09" is scheduled in 18 days - on September 28, 2010,
>>  i. e. we have a delay against the original plan of about 2 weeks.
>>
>> For details please see
>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/ReleaseCycle
>>
>> Please help testing, and check if all your relevant patches have been
>> included.
> 
> I did a bit of v2010.09-rc1 testing on OMAP3 this evening and things
> looked good until I tried a simple memory display!
> 
> The output froze after the memory address was displayed:
> 
> Overo # md 82000000 10
> 82000000:
> 

Hi Steve,

do not worry, this is a known problem. As reported by Rheinard, we need
the patch to fix misaligned access. It is was not merged up now, but we
need soon before the release:

"3d70dcf2d8ea7e7a50d5d5d5a0429341db87e38f display_buffer: fix misaligned
buffer
- urgent!"

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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