[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2017.03-rc2 released

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 14 February 2017 at 10:21, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > It's release day and v2017.03-rc2 is out.  I think my patchwork queue is
>> > looking good currently but I'm open to being told there's important
>> > stuff outstanding.  I'm probably going to grab some Kconfig things and
>> > perhaps other cleanups I can mechanically confirm are correct.  Things
>> > are on track for -rc3 on the 27th.
>>
>> +Cc: Simon
>>
>> This build weirdly breaks on Intel Edison.
>> -rc1 works fine, while just rebase on -rc2 becomes unsable
>>
>> On the first boot *original Edison* Linux kernel (v3.10.98 based)
>> doesn't print anything (looks like internal crash in U-Boot), on the
>> sequential we have corrupted media, so, board is basically bricked.
>
> We have the beginnings of 64-bit support in there now, so I suspect
> something there is breaking Edison. Can you bisect it?

I don't think so, because each iteration would require to port patches
on it. It might take days/weeks since it's not a main work for me.

>> I dunno how to debug this since Tangier/Edison support is not (yet) in
>> U-Boot upstream.
>>
>> Any hints?
>
> Hmmm it would be good to get this support into mainline so we can
> avoid these sorts of problems. I did get the files at some point but
> have not made time to do it. Do you know if anyone is planning to do
> this?

Seems we are doing this.

> From memory the patches looked pretty clean.

Can you point to the patches repository or any mail archive which we
can look at?
Currently our work based on latest stuff from
github:01org/edison-u-boot repository.
There patches for our opinion are quite far from upstream quality.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko