[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2018.09-rc2 released

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 06:10:04 UTC 2018


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:35 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> It is release day and despite Travis-CI being really bad about network
>>> connections over the weekend, it's back to normal today at least.  So
>>> I'm putting out v2018.09-rc2 now.  I plan on looking at Kconfig
>>> migrations and similar things that I can size-test.  I think there's
>>> still a code removal patch or two I can apply as well at this point.
>>>
>>> Things look on track for -rc3 on the 27th, -rc4 on September 3rd and
>>> then final release on September 10th.  Thanks all!
>>
>> So the AllWinner H3 SoC still appears to be broken in rc2 from the
>> regression that happened just before 2018.07 GA, it was discussed in a
>> couple of threads but I had no answer from previous inquiry [1], does
>> anyone know if there was a conclusion as to the best fix for this?
>>
>> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
>>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
>> EHCI failed to shut down host controller.
>> EHCI failed to shut down host controller.
>> EHCI failed to shut down host controller.
>> EHCI failed to shut down host controller.
>>    Loading Ramdisk to 49350000, end 49fff4f9 ... OK
>>    Loading Device Tree to 49348000, end 4934fa97 ... OK
>>
>> Starting kernel ...
>>
>> and it just hangs
>>
>> [1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-August/336837.html
>
> What is this board? Is it reproducing GCC 6.3-2017.02? See this thread

It's a Orange Pi PC built using gcc 8.2 in Fedora 29. Fedora has a
policy of requiring the distro toolchain so I don't have an option of
using some random toolkit how some users "fixed" it.

> [2] http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/U-Boot-2018-07-Still-Broken-for-Allwinner-H3-SoCs-td334464.html#a334570


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