[U-Boot] [PATCH U-Boot] ARM: rpi_b: detect board revision

[Stephen Warren]

On 11/24/2014 08:50 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On 18 November 2014 at 21:40, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> Detect the board revision early during boot, and print the decoded
>> model name.
>>
>> Eventually, this information can be used for tasks such as:
>> - Allowing/preventing USB device mode; some models have a USB device on-
>>   board so only host mode makes sense. Others connect the SoC directly
>>   to the USB connector, so device-mode might make sense.
>> - The on-board USB hub/Ethernet requires different GPIOs to enable it,
>>   although luckily the default appears to be fine so far.
>> - The compute module contains an on-board eMMC device, so we could store
>>   the environment there. Other models use an SD card and so don't support
>>   saving the environment (unless we store it in a file on the FAT boot
>>   partition...)
>>
>> Set $fdtfile based on this information. At present, the mainline Linux
>> kernel doesn't contain a separate DTB for most models, but I hope that
>> will change soon.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>> ---
>> I'm considering renaming rpi_b -> rpi in U-Boot since it supports many
>> models. Hopefully I can persuade U-Boot to load the environment from
>> different places at run-time, so we won't need different builds based
>> on whether the environment is in eMMC or not for example.
>>
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/arch-bcm2835/mbox.h |  33 +++++++++
>>  board/raspberrypi/rpi_b/rpi_b.c          | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  include/configs/rpi_b.h                  |   1 -
>>  3 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> I tried this out. It worked OK for me except that it can't find the
> device tree file bcm2835-rpi-b-rev2.dtb.
> 
> Oddly I can fatload it from /bcm2835-rpi-b-rev2.dtb but when I try
> from /syslinux/..//bcm2835-rpi-b-rev2.dtb it fails and cannot find the
> file. Reducing the filename length to 8 chars works. I wonder what
> year of my life FAT will stop plaguing me?

Did you ever find a solution to this issue? It's hitting me now.

I found a thread about this topic:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-December/198471.html
[U-Boot] [PATCH] fs: fat: read: fix fat16 ls/read issue

However, there didn't seem to be any conclusion there. I did look at the
FAT code a bit, but didn't make much headway yet. Having turned on
#define DEBUG, I did notice that the code path for running ls on the
root directory appears completely different to the code path for running
ls on a sub-directory, and I think that latter path is being used to
parse the root directory via the path /extlinux/../xxx. Judging purely
by debug output, the code for the root directory appears to read n
sectors (3 in my case) and dump directory entries from all of those
sectors (my filesystem has quite a few files in the root), whereas the
code for sub-directories appears to read and dump only a single sector,
even when run on the root directory that needs 3 sectors dumped. That's
the cause of the missing results from ls, but I haven't worked out
what's triggering that in the code yet.