[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2019.04-rc3 released

[Lokesh Vutla]

On 20/03/19 11:05 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:34 PM Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:32 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Tom and Jagan,
>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> So it's release day and I've put up v2019.04-rc3, I've updated git and
>>>> the tarballs are also up now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again to having signed tags, between -rc2 and -rc3 we have a good
>>>> changelog under 'git log --merges v2019.04-rc2..v2019.04-rc3'
>>>>
>>>> We're looking at release on April 8th, 2019.
>>>
>>> I've had reports of crashes on AllWinner A20 devices, at least
>>> Cubieboard2, CubieTruck and BananaPi, with rc2/rc3 (I'm not 100% sure
>>> when it started) in Fedora. I'm suspecting some of the DM migration
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Are either of you aware of any issues there?
>>>
>>> Crash below.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> U-Boot SPL 2019.04-rc3 (Mar 05 2019 - 14:49:53 +0000)
>>> DRAM: 2048 MiB
>>> CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
>>> Trying to boot from MMC1
>>>
>>>
>>> U-Boot 2019.04-rc3 (Mar 05 2019 - 14:49:53 +0000) Allwinner Technology
>>>
>>> CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
>>> Model: Cubietech Cubietruck
>>> I2C:   ready
>>> DRAM:  2 GiB
>>> MMC:   mmc at 1c0f000: 0, mmc at 1c12000: 1
>>> Loading Environment from FAT... ** No valid partitions found **
>>> Setting up a 1024x768 vga console (overscan 0x0)
>>> In:    serial
>>> Out:   vga
>>> Err:   vga
>>> Allwinner mUSB OTG (Peripheral)
>>> SCSI:  Target spinup took 0 ms.
>>> AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
>>> flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
>>>
>>> Net:   sunxi_set_gate: (CLK#66) unhandled
>>> eth0: ethernet at 1c50000
>>> Warning: usb_ether using MAC address from ROM
>>> , eth1: usb_ether
>>> starting USB...
>>> USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
>>> USB1:   USB OHCI 1.0
>>> USB2:   USB EHCI 1.00
>>> USB3:   USB OHCI 1.0
>>> scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>>> scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>>> scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>>> scanning bus 3 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>>>        scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>>> switch to partitions #0, OK
>>> mmc0 is current device
>>> ** Invalid partition 1 **
>>
>> are you sure, your sd has partitions?
>>
>> Can you switch mmc dev and check the contents, mean while I can try it
>> on A20 later tomorrow.
> 
> Hi Jagan,
> 
> Did you get a chance to test this? We've seen this on at least Cubie2,
> CubieTruck and BananaPi and it still persists with rc4

There were reports that fat write is corrupting the images. Not sure if it is
related to this bug. Can you try with the patch[1] that reported fat write
failures and see if it helps?

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1056411/

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh