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

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:20:54PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

That is odd, I would have expected it to have been kept alive.

-- 
Tom
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