[ANN] U-Boot v2024.07-rc5 released

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 25/06/2024 à 17:19, Tom Rini a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 03:12:38PM +0000, LEROY Christophe wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Le 24/06/2024 à 21:30, Tom Rini a écrit :
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Well, once again I need to check my calender reminders since, whoops,
>>> I'm a week late. That said, looking at the list of changes in this
>>> slightly elongated period, I think it's OK. At this point we're a week
>>> out from the release, so it's time for clear and obvious regression
>>> fixes. Ideally ones introduced this release cycle so there's less
>>> chances of unintended side-effects.
>>>
>>> In terms of a changelog,
>>> git log --merges v2024.07-rc4..v2024.07-rc5
>>> contains what I've pulled but as always, better PR messages and tags
>>> will provide better results here.
>>>
>>> With that, the final release is planned for Monday, July 1st, 2024.
>>> Thanks all!
>>>
>>
>> For your information, I have started testing v2024.07 on my powerpc
>> boards in operational condition and I have a major problem : U-boot
>> doesn't get the Linux kernel started before the watchdog fires. I have
>> to disable watchdog to get it running.
>>
>> This problem doesn't occur with v2024.04.
>>
>> I bisected it to commit 340fdf1303dc ("zlib: Port fix for CVE-2016-9841
>> to U-Boot") and I also confirm that v2024.07-rc5 works well with that
>> commit reverted on top of it.
>>
>> Any idea of what is going wrong with that commit ?
> 
> Are you able to check the zlib performance before/after that commit?
> 

Indeed there's a huge difference.

Before : 12298074 timebase ticks to decompress kernel
After :  17145906 ticks, that is 40% more time.

But behind that, we also need to understand why the watchdog is not kept 
alive during that time.

Christophe