[BUG] sandbox: './u-boot -l ' fails

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 05:31, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 28.09.20 06:46, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > Am 28. September 2020 06:24:38 MESZ schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >> Hi Heinrich,
> >>
> >> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 13:48, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello Simon,
> >>>
> >>> when I try to run ./u-boot -l the sandbox stalls. Shouldn't it run
> >> out
> >>> of the box?
> >>>
> >>> $ ./u-boot -l -d arch/sandbox/dts/sandbox.dtb
> >>
> >> For the record you should be able to use -D to get the same effect as
> >> your -d above.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> U-Boot 2020.10-rc4-00018-g21a10244f9-dirty (Sep 19 2020 - 19:55:39
> >> +0200)
> >>>
> >>> Model: sandbox
> >>> DRAM:  128 MiB
> >>>
> >>> Warning: host_lo MAC addresses don't match:
> >>> Address in ROM is               26:4b:ca:6c:98:f4
> >>> Address in environment is       00:00:11:22:33:44
> >>>
> >>> Warning: host_virbr0 MAC addresses don't match:
> >>> Address in ROM is               ee:3e:c9:ce:1f:9c
> >>> Address in environment is       00:00:11:22:33:45
> >>>
> >>> Warning: host_docker0 MAC addresses don't match:
> >>> Address in ROM is               c2:85:07:7b:9a:18
> >>> Address in environment is       00:00:11:22:33:46
> >>> WDT:   Not found!
> >>> MMC:
> >>>
> >>> No output after this point.
> >>>
> >>> The problem also exists with U-Boot v2020.07, v2019.10, v2018.11.
> >>>
> >>> CONFIG_SANDBOX_SDL=y
> >>>
> >>> SDL_InitSubSystem() never returns. It is looping somewhere in
> >> U-Boot's
> >>> __serial_getc(). I wonder how it gets there without returning from
> >> the
> >>> function.
> >>>
> >>> I compiled SDL2.cpp from
> >>> https://gist.github.com/miguelmartin75/6946310#file-sdl2-cpp-L18
> >>> with
> >>>
> >>> g++ SDL2.cpp -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL2 -lSDL2 -lGL -o test
> >>>
> >>> and it runs fine showing an X11 windows with red background.
> >>>
> >>> So there seems to be no general problem with the SDL2 library.
> >>
> >> I hit this myself on another computer and it turned out to be that SDL
> >> defined getc(), as does U-Boot, and things get confused. At least I
> >> think it is getc.
> >>
> >> I hacked around with changing the name of getc (I think it was getc)
> >> in U-Boot and the problem went away.
> >
> > Should we include a patched SDL2 with U-Boot for static linking?
> >
>
> I cannot find a symbol getc() nor a reference to it in the SDL
> repository. getc() is defined in stdio.h.
>
> Our getc() takes no argument, while the stdio one wants a FILE *.
>
> But changing the U-Boot definition to "int getc(void *)" does not solve
> the issue.

I just tried it on the machine where it doesn't work:

$ gdb --args /tmp/b/sandbox/u-boot -l -D
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Reading symbols from /tmp/b/sandbox/u-boot...
(gdb) br getc
Breakpoint 1 at 0x5b6d6: getc. (2 locations)
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/b/sandbox/u-boot -l -D
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".


U-Boot 2020.10-rc5-00196-g0ac83d080a0 (Sep 28 2020 - 07:11:52 -0600)

Model: sandbox
DRAM:  128 MiB

Warning: host_lo MAC addresses don't match:
Address in ROM is 1a:34:9b:48:aa:53
Address in environment is 00:00:11:22:33:44
WDT:   Not found!
MMC:

Breakpoint 1, getc () at
/home/sjg/cosarm/src/third_party/u-boot/files/common/console.c:414
414 if (!gd->have_console)
(gdb) up
#1  0x00007ffff7914d48 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
(gdb)


So it seems that it is libX11 causing the problem.

I don't think the best fix is to remove getc() from that library,
although I do wonder if it is a bug. Renaming the symbol in U-Boot
with #define (only on sandbox) might be one option.

Regards,
Simon