[PATCH RFC u-boot-mvebu 00/59] arm: mvebu: Various fixes

[Pali Rohár]

On Tuesday 21 February 2023 21:45:07 Tony Dinh wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:14 PM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 21 February 2023 15:06:16 Tony Dinh wrote:
> > > Hi Pali,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:22 PM Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This patch series contains various improvements and fixes for existing
> > > > logical errors. Boot phase was adjusted to match behavior of Armada 385
> > > > BootROM by inspecting and disassembling of BootROM binary dump itself.
> > > > Important information are included in documentation patch for kwboot.
> > > > Most of the changes are untested, hence this patch series is just RFC.
> > > > So please test changes before applying, idealy on SPI, SATA and SD/MMC.
> > > > Nevertheless all patches on github passed CI testing in this PR:
> > > > https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/pull/275
> > ...
> > > I went to patchwork and downloaded the series.
> > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20230221201925.9644-2-pali@kernel.org
> > >
> > > When I applied the patches set there were some rejections.
> > > <BEGIN LOG>
> > > # patch -p1 < /usr/src/builds-u-boot-marvell/pali_patches/arm-mvebu-Various-fixes.patch
> > >
> > ...
> > FAILED
> > ...
> > > <END LOG>
> > >
> > > I'm on the latest master branch (just did a git pull today). Could
> > > some patches be out of order?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tony
> >
> > Well, that is because DENX mail server is broken and it crashed during
> > processing antispam filter on my some of my patches. So some patches are
> > missing in archive and then applying dependent patches failed.
> >
> > So ignore patchwork and email patches. Rather fetch changes from the
> > mentioned github pull request https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/pull/275
> >
> > You can do it via git command (it fetch it to the new mvebu branch):
> >
> >   git fetch https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot.git refs/pull/275/merge:mvebu
> 
> Indeed! That pull request was applied without problem.
> 
> So I did a general regression test running rebuilt kwboot binary, and
> rebuilt u-boot images for these 2 Marvell boards:
> 
> Thecus N2350 (Armada 385)
> Pogo V4 (Kirkwood 88F6192).
> 
> So for that part:
> Tested-by: Tony Dinh <mibodhi at gmail.com>
> 
> All the best,
> Tony

Thanks for testing! Anyway do you have some A38x board which can boot
from SD/MMC, SATA or NAND? This is what is needed to test too. I see
that Pogo boots from NAND but it does not use SPL.