[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2018.03-rc4 released

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:47:28PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Gray <jsg at jsg.id.au> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:36:37AM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hey all,
>> >> >
>> >> > It's release day and I've released v2018.03-rc4.  I've included a few
>> >> > different regression fixes I've seen along with some fixes and cleanups.
>> >> > I would like to do the release on March 12th, and likely will so long as
>> >> > no big regressions show up.  I am worried about the RPi3 issue I've seen
>> >> > reported.  Are there any other issues people know of currently?
>> >> >
>> >> > And to repeat myself again, boards and SoC families, etc, that have been
>> >> > orphaned for more than a year should probably get dropped.  I've
>> >> > contacted a few people off-list (which is why we've had a few pickups of
>> >> > late) for things, but if you know someone that would be interested in
>> >> > something, please speak up.
>> >>
>> >> Just a heads up that I've seen a regression in building i.MX6
>> >> platforms from rc3 with this:
>> >>
>> >> /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2018.03-rc4/arch/arm/mach-imx/spl.c:160:5:
>> >> error: redefinition of 'spl_boot_mode'
>> >>  u32 spl_boot_mode(const u32 boot_device)
>> >>      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >> /builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2018.03-rc4/arch/arm/mach-imx/spl.c:137:5:
>> >> note: previous definition of 'spl_boot_mode' was here
>> >>  u32 spl_boot_mode(const u32 boot_device)
>> >>      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >> make[3]: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2018.03-rc4/scripts/Makefile.build:280:
>> >> spl/arch/arm/mach-imx/spl.o] Error 1
>> >> make[2]: *** [/builddir/build/BUILD/u-boot-2018.03-rc4/scripts/Makefile.spl:351:
>> >> spl/arch/arm/mach-imx] Error 2
>> >> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>> >>
>> >> I've not had time to dig further just yet, just wanted to give people
>> >> a heads up.
>> >
>> > mx6cuboxi builds/runs fine here with
>> > 5e62f828256d66e2b28def4f9ef20a2a05c2d04f/v2018.03-rc4
>> > and linaro gcc 6.3-2017.02
>>
>> This is Fedora 28 with gcc 8 and possibly some extra hardending flags
>
> Some extra patches?  There's only 1 spl_boot_mode in
> arch/arm/mach-imx/spl.c and line 160 is a comment here.

Yes, I should have had coffee before starting at my computer, I had
pulled in a patch [1] to deal with the previous imx6 not booting and
had forgot, it still applied cleanly though except failed in the build
bits. Panic over, sorry :-/

Tested build and boot on a imx6 device.

Peter

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2018-February/320614.html