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

[Peter Robinson]

> 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.

No, I'm not sure that's completely the case because I first saw a
related issue before my dtc had the python patch set added to it, I
would actually prefer to build with the distro dtc rather than a fork
of upstream like we use to.

Peter