[U-Boot] U-boot 2017.07 not working on Raspberry Pi

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 20 August 2017 at 20:59, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 3 August 2017 at 11:42, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:42:13AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2017 07:45 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> ...
>>> >I'm not sure if we have a Raspberry Pi in a test farm anywhere. I
>>> >should be able to look next week if no one can figure these out
>>> >beforehand.
>>>
>>> I thought that Tom had some Pis in his test farm?
>>
>> I have an RPi 3, but we don't have Linux boot tests atm.  I'm talking
>> with Kevin Hilman about how I might setup kernelci to test a few things
>> in my lab, which might catch this kind of problem sooner rather than
>> later.
>
> Just a note that I can repeat the CONFIG_OF_EMBED problem. I am not
> sure what is going on or why this would prevent the kernel booting.
> But I believe rpi has a device tree pass-through from the pre-U-Boot
> boot loader, and I am booting with that, so perhaps it relies on
> CONFIG_OF_EMBED in some way?

I can see some code in board_fdt_blob_setup() but it does not seem to
be enabled. For me I am able to boot Linux without CONFIG_OF_EMBED.

>
> I can also repeat the USB keyboard problem. It doesn't detect the
> keyboard at all. For me this can be fixed by enabling
> CONFIG_DM_KEYBOARD, so we should probably do that for all rpi boards.

I have sent a patch for this.

>
> Re the Ethernet thing, what changes when you disable that?

Regards,
Simon