[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 0/7] ARM: imx: Update Novena to DM/DT

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon Aug 19 12:37:42 UTC 2019


On 6/4/19 9:06 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2019-05-17, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Update Kosagi Novena to DM / DT and remove the warnings.
>> This depends on the following patches / series:
>>
>>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1095618/
>>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1101171/
> 
> These are now merged in 2019.07-rc3.
> 
>>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=108463
> 
> These were not yet.
> 
> I have two oustanding issues... with some files it sometimes fails to
> load one or more from SATA:
> 
> Retrieving file: /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-trunk-armmp
> 20077960 bytes read in 375 ms (51.1 MiB/s)
> Retrieving file: /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-trunk-armmp
> 4215296 bytes read in 40 ms (100.5 MiB/s)
> append: root=UUID=9666ab0b-f932-4e2f-95d7-0e96a12a4540 ro quiet
> Retrieving file: /usr/lib/linux-image-5.0.0-trunk-armmp/imx6q-novena.dtb
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [fafb5398, fafb6398]
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [fafb5398, fafb6398]
> ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - start address is not aligned -
> 0xfafb5398
> ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - stop address is not aligned -
> 0xfafb6398
> invalid extent block
> 
> It then falls back to one of the other kernels (using the extlinux.conf
> parsing) and succeeds. It consistantly gets a cache/alignment error with
> this specific file. A bit-for-bit identical .dtb loaded from another
> path works just fine. Older versions of u-boot boot this fine. Would
> some particular EXT4 flag possibly be causing issues?

I don't know. Do you still run into this with u-boot/master ?

> Several other kernel+initrd+dtb combinations work fine.
> 
> I have not noticed issues loading from PXE.
> 
> 
> The second issue is still using one out of four exposed USB ports fails
> and resets the board:
> 
> load usb 0:1 $kernel_addr_r misc/Binaries/linux/Image
> data abort
> pc : [<fefbb67a>]          lr : [<fefbb0fd>]
> reloc pc : [<1783367a>]    lr : [<178330fd>]
> sp : faf7c6e8  ip : 00000003     fp : 00000005
> r10: faf8b200  r9 : faf87ea0     r8 : 00000001
> r7 : faf8b2c0  r6 : f9f7a040     r5 : faf7c710  r4 : 00000038
> r3 : 0000006d  r2 : f9f7a0a3     r1 : faf8b32c  r0 : f9f7a09f
> Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32
> Code: 4630fc5b 81f0e8bd e7d84606 bf082b2f (f822235c)
> Resetting CPU ...
> 
> The three other usb ports work just fine with the same USB stick and
> file. All four ports work with 2019.01.

Can you debug it ? I think some of this was due to the EFI stuff , which
I think was fixed since. Can you re-check that ?


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