[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] bootm: Add the missing PREP stage to bootz and correct image handling

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Tue Jul 9 19:01:15 CEST 2013


On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:22:13AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 01:26:11PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >> In the recent bootm refactor, the PREP stage was missing in the bootz
> > >> command. This causes unpredictable behaviour.
> > >>
> > >> The use of a local variable means that the reset of cmd_bootm.c does not
> > >> in fact use the same image structure, so remove this.
> > >>
> > >> Also manually set the OS type to Linux, since this is the only possibility
> > >> at present, and we need to select the right boot function.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >
> > > With the whole series applied, I still see a hang at:
> > > Kernel image @ 0x80200000 [ 0x000000 - 0x3d44a0 ]
> > >
> > > Starting kernel ...
> > >
> > > Perhaps something to do with how my DDR is not at 0x0 -> 256MiB but
> > > 0x80000000 -> 256MiB ?
> > 
> > 
> > Tom, which board is that?
> > 
> > These 5 patches just on top of v2013.07-rc2, the panda (non es) (board
> > file) works, but Wand (device tree) is still locking up for me...
> > 
> > Panda (Board file boot)
> > 
> > load mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} zImage
> > run mmcargs
> > bootz ${loadaddr}
> 
> Ah-ha!  It's an appended dtb vs not problem now.  I can boot my
> beagelbone with with an appended dtb and bootz, but can't with separate.

OK, the BOOTM_STATE_FINDOTHER state code isn't working since we don't
have the rest of the header bits that the code checks for set.  I've
taken a few stabs at reworking things, but it's not working yet.  Simon,
do you have any ideas here?  I'm starting to wonder if we don't need to
revert things afterall and sort this out post release.

-- 
Tom
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