u-boot on RPi4 32bit - issue after upgrading the firmware

Nicolas Saenz Julienne nsaenzjulienne at suse.de
Thu Feb 25 11:55:05 CET 2021


On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 11:43 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently I've upgraded a video core firmware on my RPi4 and I've noticed 
> that u-boot in ARM 32bit mode stopped working properly or even randomly 
> crashes. I've bisected the firmware releases and the issue appears for 
> the first time in the commit 63b1922311 ("firmware: arm_loader: Update 
> armstubs with those from PR 117 See: 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/pull/117").

Just for confirmation, 
> 
> This issue can be easily observed as a failure of the xhci. See the 
> attached log:
> 
> Read start4x.elf bytes  2984808 hnd 0x000006e2 sha256 d21bf9d3954fea04
> Read fixup4x.dat bytes     8432 hnd 0x000006dd sha256 10d3b073ab232613
> 0x00a03111 0x00000000 0x0000001f
> MEM GPU: 76 ARM: 948 TOTAL: 1024
> Starting start4x.elf @ 0xfec00200 partition 0
> PCI reset
> +
> 
> MESS:00:00:04.800023:0: arasan: arasan_emmc_open
> MESS:00:00:04.975752:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/config.txt
> MESS:00:00:04.979162:0: brfs: File read: 2153 bytes
> MESS:00:00:05.046081:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/config.txt
> MESS:00:00:06.121174:0: gpioman: gpioman_get_pin_num: pin 
> DISPLAY_DSI_PORT not defined
> MESS:00:00:06.128433:0: *** Restart logging
> MESS:00:00:06.129897:0: brfs: File read: 2153 bytes
> MESS:00:00:06.148533:0: hdmi: HDMI:hdmi_get_state is deprecated, use 
> hdmi_get_display_state instead
> MESS:00:00:06.154474:0: HDMI0: hdmi_pixel_encoding: 300000000
> MESS:00:00:06.159948:0: HDMI1: hdmi_pixel_encoding: 300000000
> MESS:00:00:06.166901:0: dtb_file 'bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb'
> MESS:00:00:06.178359:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
> MESS:00:00:06.181601:0: Loading 'bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb' to 0x100 size 0xc901
> MESS:00:00:06.201386:0: brfs: File read: 51457 bytes
> MESS:00:00:06.267975:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/config.txt
> MESS:00:00:06.270915:0: dtparam: audio=on
> MESS:00:00:06.283974:0: brfs: File read: 2153 bytes
> MESS:00:00:06.286148:0: Failed to load overlay 'vc4-fkms-v3d'
> MESS:00:00:06.291378:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/overlays/vc4-fkms-v3d.dtbo
> MESS:00:00:06.304096:0: Failed to open command line file 'cmdline.txt'
> MESS:00:00:07.484256:0: brfs: File read: /mfs/sd/u-boot.bin
> MESS:00:00:07.486726:0: Loading 'u-boot.bin' to 0x8000 size 0x84cf4
> MESS:00:00:07.492726:0: Device tree loaded to 0x2eff3100 (size 0xce24)
> MESS:00:00:07.500863:0: uart: Set PL011 baud rate to 103448.300000 Hz
> MESS:00:00:07.508031:0: uart: Baud rate change done...
> MESS:00:00:07.510053:0:
> 
> U-Boot 2021.04-rc2 (Feb 25 2021 - 11:21:44 +0100)

Can you try with today's master branch, I'm specially interested in seeing if
56f1bcc4b7fb helps.

> DRAM:  948 MiB
> RPI 4 Model B (0xa03111)
> MMC:   mmcnr at 7e300000: 1, emmc2 at 7e340000: 0
> Loading Environment from FAT... OK
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   eth0: ethernet at 7d580000
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> U-Boot> pci enum
> PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
> U-Boot> usb start
> starting USB...
> Bus xhci_pci: Host not halted after 16000 microseconds.
> probe failed, error -16
> No working controllers found
> U-Boot>
> 
> Is it a known issue? In ARM64 mode everything works fine, but this not 
> very surprising, because the firmware change in the mentioned commit is 
> related to the ARM 32bit mode. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this 
> issue? I've checked also the latest version of the RPi firmware, but the 
> issue is still there.
> 
> Best regards


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