[ANN] U-Boot v2020.07-rc2 released

[Marek Vasut]

On 5/13/20 4:49 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:13:45AM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>> Hello Heinrich,
>>
>> Am 13.05.2020 um 07:53 schrieb Heinrich Schuchardt:
>>> On 5/13/20 5:54 AM, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>>>> Hello Tom,
>>>>
>>>> Am 12.05.2020 um 15:28 schrieb Heiko Schocher:
>>>>> Hello Tom,
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 12.05.2020 um 00:28 schrieb Tom Rini:
>>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's release day and I've tagged v2020.07-rc2.  At this point out we
>>>>>> should be seeing stabilization, clean-up and localized new features.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Once again, for a changelog,
>>>>>> git log --merges v2020.07-rc1..v2020.07-rc2
>>>>>> and as always, I ask for more details in the PRs people send me so I can
>>>>>> put them in the merge commit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm planning to follow the every-other-week RC schedule and release on
>>>>>> July 6th.  I'm also thinking about opening -next again on June 8th as
>>>>>> that will give us a bit more time to focus on stability and regression
>>>>>> fixing.  Thanks all!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have now running the following 4 boards in my daily automated tbot
>>>>> testsetup (build and install U-boot on the boards, and run test.py)
>>>>>
>>>>> wandboard DL (imx6)
>>>>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/69
>>>>>
>>>>> socrates (mpc85xx)
>>>>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/70
>>>>>
>>>>> BBB (am335x)
>>>>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/71
>>>>>
>>>>> aristainetos2 (imx6) (with some patches on top, gpio fixes just posted
>>>>> also on this board with secure boot enabled)
>>>>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/72
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope I find time to get this up and running for some of my at91 boards
>>>>
>>>> May I am nerving with this stuff .. but today morning, I see for the
>>>> wandboard with commit 10bca13ea6 the image size increased around ~35K
>>>> compared to commit 2a38d2239
>>>>
>>>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/stats/wandboard_defconfig/10
>>>>
>>>> bye,
>>>> Heiko
>>>
>>> Hello Heiko,
>>>
>>> I am not able to reproduce your 35k increase. This is what I got:
>>>
>>> 10bca13ea6
>>> 668860 u-boot-with-spl.imx
>>> 599164 u-boot.bin
>>>
>>> 2a38d2239
>>> 668780 u-boot-with-spl.imx
>>> 599084 u-boot.bin
>>>
>>> 80 additional bytes seems to be in line with the few lines added to
>>> drivers/gpio/gpio-uclass.c in 47bd533e9dd0 ("gpio: emulate open drain &
>>> open source in dm_gpio_set_value()").
>>>
>>> I am building on Debian Buster with gcc (Debian 9.3.0-11) 9.3.0.
>>>
>>> Please, indicate the size of which file is shown in the caption of your
>>> graphs.
>>
>> Yes, I add this, when I am back in the office!
>>
>>> Please, check if your distribution updated your build system between the
>>> two builds.
>>
>> No, I use the same toolchain:
>>
>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/75
>> http://xeidos.ddns.net/ubtestresults/result/69
>>
>> Ah, yes my fault! I measured the size of u-boot.img now the size of
>> u-boot.bin as I made some changes ...
>>
>> hs at lab-1:tbot  $ ls -al
>> total 1292
>> drwxrwxr-x. 2 hs hs   4096 Apr 17 09:29 .
>> drwxrwxr-x. 3 hs hs   4096 Apr 17 09:28 ..
>> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 hs hs  48128 May 13 04:00 SPL
>> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 hs hs  84476 May 13 04:00 System.map
>> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 hs hs 597544 May 13 04:00 u-boot.bin
>> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 hs hs  15553 May 13 04:00 u-boot.cfg
>> -rw-rw-rw-. 1 hs hs 562116 May 13 04:00 u-boot.img
>>
>> So, sorry for the noise! I add to the database now also the name
>> of the image.
> 
> I'm glad you got this sorted out but I would _really_ encourage you to
> make use of the size tracking information we have had in buildman for
> forever to track the function size changes, when you build for commit A
> and B.  This is what I do for every PR, FWIW.

Do we now reflect on that growth in any way ?