[U-Boot] Testing u-boot-dm/next

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 17:05:10 CEST 2015


Hi Simon,

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 11 April 2015 at 07:48, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Bin,
>>>>
>>>> On 9 April 2015 at 06:52, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>>> (Correcting address for Masahiro, sorry)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 April 2015 at 21:07, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have quite a few patches queued up in the next branch of u-boot-dm,
>>>>>>> ready for when the merge window options.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If anyone has time and can give it a spin on their board, it would be much
>>>>>>> appreciated!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Simon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tested it on CrownBay board and found one issue:
>>>>>
>>>>> During the boot up, or typing 'sf probe' in the U-Boot shell, it reports:
>>>>>
>>>>> Invalid bus 0 (err=-19)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not investigated but suspect this is due to the CrownBay board
>>>>> has not been converted to use DM SPI, like Chromebook?
>>>>
>>>> All of x86 should use that - it is in arch/x86/Kconfig.
>>>
>>> Ah, I see.
>>>
>>>> More likely the SPI compatible string is wrong:
>>>>
>>>> compatible = "intel,ich7";
>>>>
>>>> It should be "intel,ich-spi "I think. You can check with 'dm tree' to
>>>> see what devices have been found.
>>>
>>> But changing crownbay.dts to use "intel,ich-spi" does not help.
>>>
>>> => dm tree
>>>  Class       Probed   Name
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>  root        [ + ]    root_driver
>>>  serial      [ + ]    |-- serial
>>>  gpio        [   ]    |-- gpioa
>>>  gpio        [   ]    |-- gpiob
>>>  spi         [   ]    `-- spi
>>>  spi_flash   [   ]        `-- spi-flash at 0
>>> => sf probe
>>> Invalid bus 0 (err=-19)
>>> Failed to initialize SPI flash at 0:0 (error -19)
>>>
>>
>> 'git besect' shows that commit 898ed91 breaks the things.
>>
>> A debug version of U-Boot log is:
>>
>> => sf probe
>> uclass_find_device_by_seq: 0 0
>>    - -1 -1
>>    - not found
>> spi_find_bus_and_cs: No bus 0
>> uclass_find_device_by_seq: 0 0
>>    - -1 -1
>>    - not found
>> uclass_find_device_by_seq: 1 0
>>    - -1 -1
>>    - not found
>> Invalid bus 0 (err=-19)
>> Failed to initialize SPI flash at 0:0 (error -19)
>> Command failed, result=1=>
>
> With the conversion to driver model it no-longer probes the PCI bus
> looking for a SPI device. Did you try adding and alias too? I think
> you fixed the compatible string.

Yes, I only fixed the compatible string. Just now I added an alias to
the spi node, and it worked. So the alias is a must-have now?

diff --git a/arch/x86/dts/crownbay.dts b/arch/x86/dts/crownbay.dts
index e81054e..fbdeade 100644
--- a/arch/x86/dts/crownbay.dts
+++ b/arch/x86/dts/crownbay.dts
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
        model = "Intel Crown Bay";
        compatible = "intel,crownbay", "intel,queensbay";

+       aliases {
+               spi0 = "/spi";    /* looks like spi = "/spi" also works */
+       };
+
        config {
                silent_console = <0>;
        };
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@
        spi {
                #address-cells = <1>;
                #size-cells = <0>;
-               compatible = "intel,ich7";
+               compatible = "intel,ich-spi";
                spi-flash at 0 {
                        reg = <0>;
                        compatible = "sst,25vf016b", "spi-flash";

> I have tested this again on link and it seems OK there (there is an
> unrelated problem with coreboot not supporting the pch and so not
> seeing SPI which I will look at).
>
> Since you have a SPI bus device, and its sequence number appears to be
> unset, it should just be a case of sorting that out.
>
> Can you send the output of 'dm uclass'.
>

We need fix crownbay/minnowmax/galileo dts files. I can prepare
patches if you like.

Regards,
Bin


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