[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2017.09-rc4 released

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 04:55:48PM +0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On 5 September 2017 at 03:55, Paul Barker <pbarker at toganlabs.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> It's release day and v2017.09-rc4 is out.  It's a week until release
> >> day.  Please let me know if you know of any regressions, thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tom
> >
> > I looks like u-boot v2017.09-rc4 is still unable to boot Linux on
> > Raspberry Pi devices. I've just tested this now on a Raspberry Pi
> > (original Model B) and confirmed that it gets stuck at "Starting
> > kernel ...". This was also broken in v2017.07 but it's a regression
> > against v2017.05 where this was working. For reference see
> > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-August/300857.html and
> > replies.
> >
> > I don't think we have a root cause or a full solution yet, but
> > re-enabling CONFIG_OF_EMBED in all Raspberry Pi defconfigs should at
> > least give us a workaround for now that will allow Linux to boot. Is
> > this something we can get into the v2017.09 release at this stage? If
> > so I'm happy to send the patch and do the testing.
> 
> Yes I think that is better than what we have now. Please go ahead.
> 
> I did plan to try to root-cause this, and Stephen Warren gave some
> hints, but so far I am in the dark.
> 
> One problem I have is that booting raspbian from U-Boot leaves me
> without a working keyboard/mouse/ethernet, which seems different to
> the problem you have. I am not sure whether this is a device tree
> problem or something else.

Yes, please, lets get at least a work-around for now.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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