request for i.MX8MM Venice test

[Adam Ford]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:57 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:43 PM Adam Ford <aford173 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:35 PM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:47 AM Tim Harvey <tharvey at gateworks.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 6:10 PM Marek Behun <marek.behun at nic.cz> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > [sorry for the spam, I accidentally sent this e-mail from my personal
> > > > > address]
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello Tim,
> > > > >
> > > > > you are listed as maintainer of i.MX8MM Venice board in U-Boot.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am currently working on LTO support for U-Boot, and I have
> > > > > encountered a problem with i.MX8MM Venice board:
> > > > > when LTO is enabled, the linking process for SPL does not throw away
> > > > > relocation information, making the resulting SPL image too big for that
> > > > > board.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have added a patch that discards symbols from .rela* section to my
> > > > > patch series, but I would like you to test whether the patch series
> > > > > works for your board and does not break anything.
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you please clone https://github.com/elkablo/u-boot branch lto,
> > > > > build for imx8mm_venice_defconfig and test whether it boots on your
> > > > > board and maybe test some U-Boot commands (disk reads, kernel
> > > > > booting, ...)? If it does not work, could you also please check with
> > > > > current U-Boot master, to see if it got broken with my patches or with
> > > > > something different?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Marek,
> > > >
> > > > Your lto branch does not boot - I don't get anything after the SPL
> > > > banner. U-Boot master shows the same problem so some regression has
> > > > taken place.
> > > >
> > > > There should be several other IMX8 boards using SPL that show the same
> > > > issue I would think?
> > > >
> > > > I will have to bisect to find the breakage.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Marek,
> > >
> > > My testing may be flawed as I'm having issues with even the branches I
> > > submitted to add my board (which I previously tested without issues).
> > > I'm not sure if I'm having a compiler related issue or something else.
> > >
> > > Perhaps there is another IMX8 SPL user out there that can test with
> > > your patches while I figure out what's wrong on my end?
> >
> > I have tested and booted an i.MX8M Nano with a slightly older revision
> > of Marek's git repo. I wrongly assumed that the Mini and Nano were
> > close enough to not warrant testing on the mini, but based on what I'm
> > hearing, I will test the Beacon i.mx8mm board.   I can try to do that
> > sometime later this week.
> >
>
> Marek / Adam,
>
> I found the issues with my board, got them resolved, and was able to
> test the lto branch and it appears to work just fine with
> imx8mm-venice SPL.

Tim,

That's good news.

Marek,

Go ahead and add imx8mm_beacon to the list of tested devices as well.

adam
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim