[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] cmd_bootm.c: Make bootz consume 'bootz' from argv, decrement argc

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jul 10 17:38:06 CEST 2013


On 07/10/2013 03:53 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org
> <mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/09/2013 01:34 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>     > Like 'bootm', 'bootz' needs to consume 'bootz' so that the rest of the
>     > state functions will work.
> 
>     I found that the Raspberry Pi was randomly crashing with recent
>     u-boot/master (bisect points at/near commit 35fc84f "Refactor the bootm
>     command to reduce code duplication"; there is some slight variation in
>     symptoms around there), or sometimes just spewing errors from bootz. I
>     found the following commits on the mailing list:
> 
>     > e1ec5e0 cmd_bootm.c: Make bootz handle BOOTM_STATE_FINDOTHER itself
>     > c83a89d cmd_bootm.c: Make bootz consume 'bootz' from argv,
>     decrement argc
>     > d18cab6 bootm: Add the missing PREP stage to bootz and correct
>     image handling
>     > 4766b32 bootm: Clean up bootz_setup() function
>     > f65d734 bootm: Require boot function only if it is about to be used
>     > bf6f341 bootm: Disable interrupts only when loading
>     > a01d5e4 bootm: Handle errors consistently
> 
>     ... and the combination of all 7 of them (but not just Simon's 5
>     patches) seems to solve this, so,
> 
>     Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org
> 
> Thanks Stephen. Is this with an attached dtb or not? What 'bootz'
> command line are you testing here? I just want to make sure we are
> covering all the options

This is a separate kernel and DTB; the command-line is roughly:

bootz addr_of_zimage - addr_of_dtb


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