[PATCH] am335x_evm_defconfig: Disable CMD_BOOTEFI_BOOTMGR

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Aug 7 21:43:06 CEST 2021


On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 08:20:54PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:

> Previously, it was reported [1] that
> 
>     commit f3866909e350 ("distro_bootcmd: call EFI bootmgr even without having /EFI/boot")
> 
> introduced a regression for am335x_evm_defconfig (BeagleBone Black board).
> Namely, an attempt to execute EFI binary from USB mass storage device has been
> ending up with the following issue:
> 
>     data abort
>     pc : [<9ce0b6d0>]          lr : [<9ffab7c7>]
>     reloc pc : [<7d69d6d0>]    lr : [<8083d7c7>]
>     sp : 9df44e28  ip : 9ffdfe90     fp : 00000003
>     r10: 9ffe3300  r9 : 00000000     r8 : 9df6fe88
>     r7 : 00000000  r6 : 9ce5da08     r5 : 9ce571f8  r4 : 9ce2c040
>     r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000001     r1 : 9ce56598  r0 : 00000000
>     Flags: NzCv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32
>     Code: e3500000 0a000015 e590000c eb00f96e (e5d03000)
>     UEFI image [0x9ce46000:0x9cf28fff] '/efi\boot\bootarm.efi'
>     Resetting CPU ...
> 
> This issue is always reproduced when U-boot is stored on MMC, loaded via UART, or
> USB RNDIS.
> 
> An attempt to fix this issue revealed a design issue in EFI subsystem [2],
> so unlikely the satisfactory fix will be proposed quickly.
> 
> In this patch we disable CMD_BOOTEFI_BOOTMGR which is enabled by default and
> never worked correctly for this board as a temporarly workaround for the issue.
> 
> Reference: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-June/451486.html
> Reference: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-June/452297.html
> Signed-off-by: Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey.kornilov at gmail.com>
> ---
>  configs/am335x_evm_defconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> index ef8de5999e..c229b6acd6 100644
> --- a/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/am335x_evm_defconfig
> @@ -91,3 +91,4 @@ CONFIG_WDT=y
>  CONFIG_DYNAMIC_CRC_TABLE=y
>  CONFIG_RSA=y
>  CONFIG_LZO=y
> +# CONFIG_CMD_BOOTEFI_BOOTMGR is not set

Heinrich?

-- 
Tom
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