[PATCH] Define default CONFIG_PREBOOT with right config option

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Oct 7 17:44:59 CEST 2020


On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 07:26:55AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 02:38, Patrick DELAUNAY <patrick.delaunay at st.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > From: U-Boot <u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de> On Behalf Of Peter Robinson
> > > Sent: mardi 29 septembre 2020 11:48
> > >
> > > The 44758771ee commit removes CONFIG_PREBOOT but actually sets the
> > > USE_PREBOOT Kconfig option which isn't CONFIG_PREBOOT and is also a bool
> > > option which means we regress because 'usb start' isn't run when expected, it
> > > should also be run for devices that have USB storage because keyboards aren't
> > > the only thing we might need the USB bus for.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 44758771ee ("arm: move CONFIG_PREBOOT="usb start" to KConfig")
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
> > > Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
> > > ---
> > >  common/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig index b1934b3a9c..9c20a9738e
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/common/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/common/Kconfig
> > > @@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ config BOOTCOMMAND
> > >
> > >  config USE_PREBOOT
> > >       bool "Enable preboot"
> > > -     default "usb start" if USB_KEYBOARD
> > >       help
> > >         When this option is enabled, the existence of the environment
> > >         variable "preboot" will be checked immediately before starting the @@ -
> > > 417,6 +416,7 @@ config USE_PREBOOT  config PREBOOT
> > >       string "preboot default value"
> > >       depends on USE_PREBOOT && !USE_DEFAULT_ENV_FILE
> > > +     default "usb start" if USB_KEYBOARD || USB_STORAGE
> > >       default ""
> > >       help
> > >         This is the default of "preboot" environment variable.
> > > --
> > > 2.26.2
> >
> > For information, this patch cause unexpected 'usb start' on STM32MP15x boards
> > and slow down the start-up in realease v2020.10.
> >
> > For me it is unexpected because
> > - USB keyboard is not activated
> > - USB storage is activated but USB boot is not supported (not managed by distro boot command)
> >
> > I sent a patch [1] for the associated defconfig but I'm afraid that other boards are impacted.
> >
> > As the USB storage boot initialization is correctly managed by distro boot command 'usb_boot'
> > (defined in include/config_distro_bootcmd.h, it already include 'usb start'), I think that the
> > USB_STORAGE test should be removed or limited by !DISTRO_DEFAULTS.
> 
> Perhaps PREBOOT should depend on USE_PREBOOT?

It does.  And ARCH_STM32MP does "imply USE_PREBOOT" which is maybe the
root problem?

-- 
Tom
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