[U-Boot] usb start crashing on arndale

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 19 05:10:42 CEST 2015


Hi,

On 5 April 2014 at 06:50, armdev <armdev.ftm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear batao / Inderpal,
>
> ping works only a few times after a number of usb reset / start attempts.
> We are using linux 3.13 (exynos_defconfig) and rootfs linaro saucy server.
>
> Upon linux boot there is only lo in ifconfig.
> lsusb results in -99 error, similar to the on reported by batao in
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-stable-kernel/+bug/1301727
>
> Can you suggest anything which we can try / test at our end to solve the
> ethernet issue with uboot/linux

Somehow I found this thread. It is OK for the GPIO to be missing - the
code should check it if is valid before using it.

Since this was 18 months ago I hope you were able to fix it :-)

>
> Best Regards,
>
> On 12-Mar-2014, at 11:59 am, armdev <armdev.ftm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Inderpal,
>
> Thanks for helping us, we were able to test ethernet over usb.
> It breaks often but it works with the return -1 patch.
> The following error is observed most of the time
> EHCI timed out on TD - token=0x8008d80
>
> -Regards
> armdev team
>
> On 12-Mar-2014, at 9:48 am, Inderpal Singh <inderpal.singh at linaro.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On 11 March 2014 20:25, armdev <armdev.ftm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adding Inderpal singh and Trini. Please help
>>
>> On 11-Mar-2014, at 12:27 pm, armdev <armdev.ftm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We have recently started working on arndale and running u-boot head on
>> > it. Seems like it is crashing on our setup with a data abort on usb start.
>> > Can anyone please confirm and suggest a fix / solution
>> >
>> > U-Boot 2014.04-rc1-00486-geeb72e6 (Mar 11 2014 - 11:44:32) for ARNDALE
>> >
>> > CPU:    Exynos5250 at 1000MHz
>> >
>> > Board: Arndale
>> > I2C:   i2c_init: failed to init bus 0 for speed = 100000
>> > ready
>> > DRAM:  2 GiB
>> > trace: copying 00084f98 bytes of early data from 50000000 to beff0000
>> > trace: enabled
>> > WARNING: Caches not enabled
>> > MMC:   EXYNOS DWMMC: 0, EXYNOS DWMMC: 1
>> > i2c_init: failed to init bus 0 for speed = 100000
>> > In:    serial
>> > Out:   serial
>> > Err:   serial
>> > Net:   Net Initialization Skipped
>> > No ethernet found.
>> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>> > ARNDALE # usb start
>> > (Re)start USB...
>> > USB0:   data abort
>> > pc : [<bef8524c>]          lr : [<bef85298>]
>> > sp : beb5f9c0  ip : 00000003     fp : 00000000
>> > r10: 00000000  r9 : beb62ecc     r8 : befbcc80
>> > r7 : befbcc84  r6 : 0000ffff     r5 : 000000ff  r4 : 00000001
>> > r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000001     r1 : 000000ff  r0 : 0000ffff
>> > Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32
>> > Resetting CPU ...
>> >
>> >
>
>
> I was able to reproduce the issue and git bisect tells me that it started
> happening after the commit "8475c86 s5p: gpio: change gpio coding method for
> s5p gpio".
>
> Upon debugging further I figured out that it happens because the function
> fdtdec_setup_gpio returns success even if there is no gpio defined. Since no
> error is returned the exynos ehci driver goes ahead to setup the gpio and
> data abort happens. If I return failure from this function it works well.
>
> diff --git a/lib/fdtdec.c b/lib/fdtdec.c
> index 1fecab3..b1c4e92 100644
> --- a/lib/fdtdec.c
> +++ b/lib/fdtdec.c
> @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ int fdtdec_setup_gpio(struct fdt_gpio_state *gpio)
>          * optional GPIOs)
>          */
>         if (!fdt_gpio_isvalid(gpio))
> -               return 0;
> +               return -1;
>
>
> I am not sure of the objective to return success if there is no gpio
> defined.
> Simon, could you please suggest where do we need to fix it ? the above
> function or gpio driver ?
>
> Thanks,
> Inder
>
>
>
>>
>> > Thanks and Regards
>> > Armdev at FTM Team
>> >
>>
>
>
>

Regards,
Simon


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