[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_dos: Use the original allocation scheme for the SPL case

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Sat Oct 7 02:08:41 UTC 2017


On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:21:26AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 12:35 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 05:05:49AM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 01:12:48PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> >> >> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com> wrote:
> >> >> > Since commit ff98cb90514d ("part: extract MBR signature from partitions")
> >> >> > SPL boot on i.MX6 starts to fail:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > U-Boot SPL 2017.09-00221-g0d6ab32 (Oct 02 2017 - 15:13:19)
> >> >> > Trying to boot from MMC1
> >> >> > (keep in loop)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Use the original allocation scheme for the SPL case, so that MX6 boards
> >> >> > can boot again.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This is a temporary solution to avoid the boot regression.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at nxp.com>
> >> >> > ---
> >> >> > Hi Tom,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I do not have time this week to further investigate and narrow down
> >> >> > this problem.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Using the old allocation scheme fixes the mx6 SPL boot problem.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Tom, if you are ok with this as a temporary fix, then this is:
> >> >>
> >> >> Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm getting some help from some of the fedora-arm folks so hopefully I
> >> >> can get some idea what is going wrong, but I'd like to unblock folks
> >> >> w/ mx6 boards..
> >> >>
> >> >> BR,
> >> >> -R
> >> >
> >> > This does not seem to be a complete fix, cubox is still broken when
> >> > U-Boot proper loads, unless the efi loader commits are to blame
> >> > for introducing unaligned accesses.
> >> >
> >> > Works with 2017.09.
> >> >
> >> > U-Boot SPL 2017.11-rc1-00026-g14b55fc833 (Oct 05 2017 - 15:17:47)
> >> > Trying to boot from MMC1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > U-Boot 2017.11-rc1-00026-g14b55fc833 (Oct 05 2017 - 15:17:47 +1100)
> >> >
> >> > CPU:   Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.5 996 MHz (running at 792 MHz)
> >> > CPU:   Extended Commercial temperature grade (-20C to 105C) at 34C
> >> > Reset cause: WDOG
> >> > Board: MX6 Cubox-i
> >> > DRAM:  2 GiB
> >> > MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0
> >> > *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
> >> >
> >> > No panel detected: default to HDMI
> >> > Display: HDMI (1024x768)
> >> > In:    serial
> >> > Out:   serial
> >> > Err:   serial
> >> > Net:   FEC
> >> > Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> >> > switch to partitions #0, OK
> >> > mmc0 is current device
> >> > Scanning mmc 0:1...
> >>
> >> I don't think any efi_loader code is running here, you would see a message like:
> >>
> >>   ## Starting EFI application at XYZ
> >>
> >> But to be sure you can disable CONFIG_EFI_LOADER in menuconfig to confirm.
> >>
> >> I guess this is some unrelated change.  I suspect Tom's change to
> >> malloc the fat_itr's which would make the buffers used for
> >> fs_exists()/etc not cache aligned.  I thought there was a patch
> >> floating around to change that to memalign().
> >
> > The imx6 problems still occur with CONFIG_EFI_LOADER disabled indeed.
> >
> > I can no longer load a kernel via efi on bbb though:
> >
> > U-Boot SPL 2017.11-rc1-00066-g4ac7de9239 (Oct 06 2017 - 14:21:51)
> > Trying to boot from MMC1
> > reading u-boot.img
> > reading u-boot.img
> >
> >
> > U-Boot 2017.11-rc1-00066-g4ac7de9239 (Oct 06 2017 - 14:21:51 +1100)
> >
> > CPU  : AM335X-GP rev 2.1
> > I2C:   ready
> > DRAM:  512 MiB
> > No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
> > No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
> > Some drivers were not found
> > MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
> > <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
> > Net:   cpsw, usb_ether
> > Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 2 seconds
> > switch to partitions #0, OK
> > mmc0 is current device
> > SD/MMC found on device 0
> > ** Unable to read file boot.scr **
> > ** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **
> > switch to partitions #0, OK
> > mmc0 is current device
> > Scanning mmc 0:1...
> > reading /am335x-boneblack.dtb
> > 35712 bytes read in 10 ms (3.4 MiB/s)
> > Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
> > reading efi/boot/bootarm.efi
> > 65448 bytes read in 16 ms (3.9 MiB/s)
> > ## Starting EFI application at 82000000 ...
> > Scanning disks on usb...
> > Scanning disks on mmc...
> > MMC Device 2 not found
> > MMC Device 3 not found
> > Found 6 disks
> >>> OpenBSD/armv7 BOOTARM 0.9
> > boot>
> > cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: Device not configured
> > booting sd0a:/bsd: open sd0a:/bsd: Device not configured
> >  failed(6). will try /bsd
> > boot>
> > cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: Device not configured
> > booting sd0a:/bsd: open sd0a:/bsd: Device not configured
> >  failed(6). will try /bsd
> > Turning timeout off.
> > boot> ls sd1a:/
> > stat(sd1a:/): Device not configured
> >
> > To reproduce replace the existing MLO/u-boot.img in the FAT fs in
> > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/miniroot-am335x-62.fs
> 
> Can you reproduce this on any aarch64 device?  I don't have anything
> armv7 to try.  (I guess the kernel won't actually boot on my db410c
> but at least it should get as far as trying if I could reproduce this
> on aarch64)

Dale Rahn was working on DragonBoard support and had a driver for the
MSM UART but those changes are not currently in the tree/snapshots.

> 
> I guess the openbsd bootloader is recognizing the "disks" differently
> now with more accurate devicepaths.  Or maybe some hack that was used
> to make things work before with the non-standard dp's is causing
> problems now?

Same problem with the aarch64 rpi_3 target.  The same efiboot binary
works fine on U-Boot 2017.09 and the EDK2 based firmware on the
OverDrive 1000.

U-Boot is built with linaro gcc 6.3.2017.02

U-Boot 2017.11-rc1-00066-g4ac7de9239 (Oct 07 2017 - 12:44:27 +1100)

DRAM:  948 MiB
RPI 3 Model B (0xa02082)
MMC:   sdhci at 7e300000: 0
reading uboot.env
In:    serial
Out:   vidconsole
Err:   vidconsole
Net:   No ethernet found.
starting USB...
USB0:	Core Release: 2.80a
scanning bus 0 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.00 Prod: Ultra
	    Type: Removable Hard Disk
	    Capacity: 29327.3 MB = 28.6 GB (60062500 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning usb 0:1...
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
reading efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
78287 bytes read in 86 ms (888.7 KiB/s)
## Starting EFI application at 01000000 ...
Scanning disk sdhci at 7e300000.blk...
Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0...
Found 2 disks
>> OpenBSD/arm64 BOOTAA64 0.8
boot>
cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: Device not configured
booting sd0a:/bsd: open sd0a:/bsd: Device not configured
 failed(6). will try /bsd
boot>
cannot open sd0a:/etc/random.seed: Device not configured
booting sd0a:/bsd: open sd0a:/bsd: Device not configured
 failed(6). will try /bsd
Turning timeout off.
boot> ls sd0a:/
stat(sd0a:/): Device not configured
boot> ls sd1a:/
stat(sd1a:/): Device not configured
boot>

U-Boot 2017.09 (Sep 12 2017 - 13:08:30 +1000)

DRAM:  948 MiB
RPI 3 Model B (0xa02082)
MMC:   sdhci at 7e300000: 0
reading uboot.env
In:    serial
Out:   vidconsole
Err:   vidconsole
Net:   No ethernet found.
starting USB...
USB0:	Core Release: 2.80a
scanning bus 0 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

Device 0: Vendor: SanDisk Rev: 1.00 Prod: Ultra
	    Type: Removable Hard Disk
	    Capacity: 29327.3 MB = 28.6 GB (60062500 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning usb 0:1...
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
reading efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
78287 bytes read in 76 ms (1005.9 KiB/s)
## Starting EFI application at 01000000 ...
Scanning disk sdhci at 7e300000.blk...
Scanning disk usb_mass_storage.lun0...
Found 2 disks
>> OpenBSD/arm64 BOOTAA64 0.8
boot>
booting sd0a:/bsd: 3871708+578596+509352+803952\[283845+96+451968+239920]=0x82f330
...


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