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

[Steve Sakoman]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
> 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!"

I tried this patch and it does indeed fix the issue.

I see that Wolfgang has already pushed it to master, so I'll get back
to testing the rc-1 on OMAP3 and OMAP4.

Thanks for the quick response!

Steve