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

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Tue Feb 28 10:54:29 CET 2023


On Tuesday 28 February 2023 08:03:47 Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On 2/27/23 12:29, Martin Rowe wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 08:04, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org
> > <mailto:pali at kernel.org>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Monday 27 February 2023 08:44:30 Stefan Roese wrote:
> >      > Hi Pali,
> >      >
> >      > On 2/25/23 23:00, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >      > > On Tuesday 21 February 2023 21:18:26 Pali Rohár 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
> >     <https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/pull/275>
> >      > >
> >      > > Patches were tested on more boards and seems there is no
> >     reported issue,
> >      > > but other improvements.
> >      > >
> >      > > So do you need something to modify in this relatively big patch
> >     series?
> >      > > If it is not really needed I would like to not send it again
> >     because
> >      > > denx servers are not able to handle it. And it take me lot of
> >     time to
> >      > > send patches over emails to denx servers.
> >      >
> >      > I'm fine with applying the series as-is. I'm a bit hesitant
> >     though, if
> >      > it should be applied to master or to next. As Tom clearly
> >     noticed, that
> >      > only fixes should be added after rc2 this time.
> >      >
> >      > What is your thinking on this?
> > 
> >     Well, I do not know. AFAIK more patches here are fixing broken mvebu
> >     boards (e.g. eMMC or SATA parts). Maybe Martin or Josua could comment?
> > 
> > 
> > A388 Clearfog was definitely broken prior to this patchset. There is
> > quite a bit of churn that this has caused for some OpenWRT users [1] as
> > well as for me. It would be nice to have a stable build for these
> > boards.
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/11661
> > <https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/11661>
> 
> Okay. Thanks for the explanation. So it makes sense to pull this
> patchset at this stage IMHO.
> 
> BUT: While trying to apply the patches sent to me directly this fails at
> this patch:
> 
> tools: kwbimage: Add support for XIP SPI/NOR images
> 
> I tried to fix this merge problem manually, but this looks a bit bogus.
> That's why I followed your instruction to pull the patches directly from
> github:
> 
> git fetch https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot.git refs/pull/275/merge:mvebu
> 
> This works and all patches apply clean. But looking into the patches I
> noticed, that these patches from github do not include all patches
> sent to the list. refs/pull/275/merge:mvebu stops after
> 
> tools: mkimage: Do not fill legacy_img_hdr for non-legacy XIP images
> 
> This is the patch directly before the failing patch mentioned above.
> 
> Pali, could you please explain what went wrong here? Maybe I'm missing
> something?

Yes, denx mail server is broken and randomly crashes when receiving /
processing email. It just bounce back with server stacktrace or what.
I tried to resend patches to ML which did not appeared on patchwork.
But I cannot do more. So you can try to download patches from patchwork
or from github.

> Thanks,
> Stefan
> 
> > 
> >      > Thanks,
> >      > Stefan
> >      >
> >      > >
> >      > > >
> >      > > > Pali Rohár (59):
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix generating, verifying and extracting SDIO
> >      > > >      kwbimage
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Fix parsing SDIO kwbimage
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: spl: Fix parsing SDIO kwbimage
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Fix parsing SDIO kwbimage
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix generating, verifying and extracting SATA
> >      > > >      kwbimage
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Fix parsing SATA kwbimage
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: spl: Fix parsing SATA kwbimage
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Fix parsing SATA kwbimage
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: spl: Remove checks for BOOT_DEVICE_MMC2 and
> >      > > >      BOOT_DEVICE_MMC2_2
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: spl: Load proper U-Boot from selected eMMC
> >     boot partition
> >      > > >    spl: mmc: Allow to disable SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: spl: Fix support for loading U-Boot proper
> >     from SD card
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Add more documentation references
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Add image type documentation
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Fix parsing UART image without data checksum
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Validate optional kwbimage v1 headers
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Add check that kwbimage contains DDR init code
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Fix patching of SPI/NOR XIP images
> >      > > >    tools: kwboot: Show image type and error parsing reasons
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Add support for selecting eMMC HW partition
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Add support for writing image to SATA disk
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Add support for reading image from the
> >     SATA disk
> >      > > >      partition
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Rename variable image_size to hdr_size
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Mark all local symbols as static
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Do not modify image in A8K
> >     check_image_header()
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Check also A8K boot image checksum
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Set correct default image name for 32-bit
> >     Armada SoCs
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Better guess default MVEBU_*_BOOT option
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Fix warnings: unused variable
> >     'secure_mode' and
> >      > > >      'fuse_read_u64' defined but not used
> >      > > >    cmd: mvebu/bubt: Enable command by default
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix dumping register set / DATA commands
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix endianity when dumping NAND_PAGE_SIZE
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix dumping NAND_BADBLK_LOCATION
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix dumping NAND_BLKSZ
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix generating of kwbimage v0 header checksum
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix endianity when printing kwbimage header
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Reject mkimage -F option
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Add support for dumping NAND_BLKSZ for v0
> >     images
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Print binary image offset as size
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Print image data offset when printing
> >     kwbimage header
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Simplify add_secure_header_v1()
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Rename imagesz to dataoff
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix generating secure boot data image
> >     signature
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Fix invalid secure boot header signature
> >      > > >    tools: mkimage: Do not fill legacy_img_hdr for non-legacy
> >     XIP images
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Add support for XIP SPI/NOR images
> >      > > >    tools: mkimage: Print human readable error when -d is not
> >     specified
> >      > > >    tools: mkimage: Do not try to open datafile when it is skipped
> >      > > >    tools: kwbimage: Add support for creating an image with no
> >     data
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Add support for generating NAND kwbimage
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Add support for generating PEX kwbimage
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Fix description of
> >     MVEBU_SPL_BOOT_DEVICE_(SPI|MMC) options
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: db-88f6820-amc: Add defconfig for NAND booting
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: clearfog: Add defconfig for SATA booting
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Remove A39x relicts
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Fix comment about CPU_ATTR_BOOTROM mapping
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Define env_sf_get_env_addr() also for Proper
> >     U-Boot
> >      > > >    arm: mvebu: Define SPL memory maps
> >      > > >    doc/kwboot.1: Update example description
> >      > > >
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig                   |  23 +-
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Makefile                  |  13 +
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/cpu.c                     |  11 +-
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/include/mach/cpu.h        |  21 ++
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/kwbimage.cfg.in
> >     <http://kwbimage.cfg.in>           |   5 +
> >      > > >   .../serdes/a38x/high_speed_env_spec.c         |   4 +-
> >      > > >   .../serdes/a38x/high_speed_env_spec.h         |   4 +-
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/serdes/a38x/sys_env_lib.c |  14 +-
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/serdes/a38x/sys_env_lib.h |  30 --
> >      > > >   arch/arm/mach-mvebu/spl.c                     |  84 +++--
> >      > > >   cmd/mvebu/Kconfig                             |  18 ++
> >      > > >   cmd/mvebu/bubt.c                              | 253
> >     ++++++++++++---
> >      > > >   common/spl/Kconfig                            |   9 +
> >      > > >   common/spl/spl_mmc.c                          |  12 +-
> >      > > >   ...rfog_defconfig => clearfog_sata_defconfig} |   2 +-
> >      > > >   ...efconfig => db-88f6820-amc_nand_defconfig} |   6 +-
> >      > > >   doc/kwboot.1                                  |   3 +-
> >      > > >   doc/mvebu/cmd/bubt.txt                        |  25 +-
> >      > > >   drivers/mtd/nand/raw/Kconfig                  |   4 +-
> >      > > >   tools/kwbimage.c                              | 297
> >     +++++++++++-------
> >      > > >   tools/kwboot.c                                | 200
> >     +++++++++++-
> >      > > >   tools/mkimage.c                               |  11 +-
> >      > > >   22 files changed, 768 insertions(+), 281 deletions(-)
> >      > > >   copy configs/{clearfog_defconfig =>
> >     clearfog_sata_defconfig} (98%)
> >      > > >   copy configs/{db-88f6820-amc_defconfig =>
> >     db-88f6820-amc_nand_defconfig} (92%)
> >      > > >
> >      > > > --
> >      > > > 2.20.1
> >      > > >
> >      >
> >      > Viele Grüße,
> >      > Stefan Roese
> >      >
> >      > --
> >      > DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Erika Unter
> >      > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
> >      > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-51 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email:
> >     sr at denx.de <mailto:sr at denx.de>
> > 
> 
> Viele Grüße,
> Stefan Roese
> 
> -- 
> DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Erika Unter
> HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
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