[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2017.07-rc2 released

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 20 June 2017 at 05:19, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > It's release day and v2017.07-rc2 is out.  I'm mostly happy with the
>> > size of the changes here and I did remember to sync the defconfigs prior
>> > to tagging.
>> >
>> > If anyone has critical fixes I've missed or some Kconfig migrations
>> > (that I can prove out as correct), please speak up.
>> >
>> > Things look on track for -rc3 on July 3rd and release on July 10th.
>> > Thanks all!
>>
>> I'm seeing failures/regression in this cycle (both RC1 and RC2)
>> building a lot of the boards, I suspect this is a difference between
>> using upstream (with python support patches) dtc vs the in-tree one.
>> We use the upstream one to ensure we get consistency across all dtc
>> consumers so it would be nice to have the same functionality as prior
>> releases.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>   gcc -Wp,-MD,spl/drivers/mmc/.sunxi_mmc.o.d  -nostdinc -isystem
>> /usr/lib/gcc/armv7hl-redhat-linux-gnueabi/7/include -Iinclude
>> -I/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/include
>> -I/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/arch/arm/include -include
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/include/linux/kconfig.h
>> -I/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/spl/drivers/mmc
>> -Ispl/drivers/mmc -D__KERNEL__ -D__UBOOT__ -DCONFIG_SPL_BUILD -Wall
>> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-format-security -fno-builtin -ffreestanding
>> -Os -fno-stack-protector -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -g
>> -fstack-usage -Wno-format-nonliteral -Werror=date-time
>> -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -D__ARM__ -Wa,-mimplicit-it=always
>> -mthumb -mthumb-interwork -mabi=aapcs-linux -mno-unaligned-access
>> -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-common -ffixed-r9
>> -msoft-float -pipe -march=armv7-a -D__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=7
>> -I/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/include
>>    -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(sunxi_mmc)"
>> -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(sunxi_mmc)" -c -o
>> spl/drivers/mmc/sunxi_mmc.o
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/drivers/mmc/sunxi_mmc.c
>>    ld.bfd     -r -o spl/drivers/serial/built-in.o
>> spl/drivers/serial/serial.o spl/drivers/serial/serial_ns16550.o
>> spl/drivers/serial/ns16550.o
>>    ld.bfd     -r -o spl/drivers/mmc/built-in.o spl/drivers/mmc/mmc.o
>> spl/drivers/mmc/mmc_legacy.o spl/drivers/mmc/sunxi_mmc.o
>>    ld.bfd     -r -o spl/drivers/built-in.o spl/drivers/i2c/built-in.o
>> spl/drivers/gpio/built-in.o spl/drivers/mmc/built-in.o
>> spl/drivers/serial/built-in.o spl/drivers/power/built-in.o
>> spl/drivers/power/pmic/built-in.o
>> spl/drivers/power/regulator/built-in.o spl/drivers/block/built-in.o
>>   (cd spl && ld.bfd   -T u-boot-spl.lds  --gc-sections -Bstatic
>> --gc-sections  --no-dynamic-linker -Ttext 0x60
>> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.o --start-group
>> arch/arm/mach-sunxi/built-in.o arch/arm/cpu/armv7/built-in.o
>> arch/arm/cpu/built-in.o arch/arm/lib/built-in.o board/sunxi/built-in.o
>> common/spl/built-in.o common/init/built-in.o common/built-in.o
>> cmd/built-in.o lib/built-in.o disk/built-in.o drivers/built-in.o
>> dts/built-in.o fs/built-in.o  --end-group arch/arm/lib/eabi_compat.o
>> arch/arm/lib/lib.a -Map u-boot-spl.map -o u-boot-spl)
>>   objcopy  -j .text -j .secure_text -j .secure_data -j .rodata -j
>> .hash -j .data -j .got -j .got.plt -j .u_boot_list -j .rel.dyn -j
>> .dtb.init.rodata -j .efi_runtime -j .efi_runtime_rel  -O binary
>> spl/u-boot-spl spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin
>>   cp spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>>   ./tools/mksunxiboot --default-dt "sun4i-a10-olinuxino-lime"
>> spl/u-boot-spl.bin spl/sunxi-spl.bin
>>   /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/tools/binman/binman -d
>> u-boot.dtb -O . -I . -I
>> /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/board/sunxi spl/sunxi-spl.bin
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/tools/binman/binman",
>> line 32, in <module>
>>     import control
>>   File "/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/tools/binman/control.py",
>> line 15, in <module>
>>     import fdt
>>   File "/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/tools/binman/../dtoc/fdt.py",
>> line 13, in <module>
>>     import libfdt
>>   File "tools/libfdt.py", line 612, in <module>
>>     FDT_ERR_TOODEEP = _libfdt.FDT_ERR_TOODEEP
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FDT_ERR_TOODEEP'
>> make[1]: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2017.07-rc2/Makefile:1130:
>> u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin] Error 1
>
> Simon, do you have some suggestions on what to do here?  Thanks!
>
> --
> Tom

My guess is that there is already a libfdt.py in the system. Someone
else reported this too.

We could perhaps change the ordering in PYTHONPATH so that our one is first.

Regards,
Simon