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

[Marek Szyprowski]

Hi Nicolas,

On 25.02.2021 11:55, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 11:43 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> 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://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=a201e8b0-fd9ad069-a20063ff-0cc47a3356b2-1ab72bd783ec5635&q=1&e=5f377675-c909-4cc4-a1d5-b740cbf6255e&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fraspberrypi%2Ftools%2Fpull%2F117").
> 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.

I've checked the mentioned commit, sadly nothing changes:

U-Boot 2021.04-rc2-00041-g56f1bcc4b7 (Feb 25 2021 - 12:05:07 +0100)

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>

I've checked that on two RPi4 boards (one with 1GB RAM and one with 8GB).

Best regards

-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland