Uboot upgrade from 2016 to 2020

[Sinan Akman]

Hi Alexandru

On 2025-10-15 18:19, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10:21:37AM +0000, Manea, Alexandru (Alexandru) wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an issue with upgrading our sources to use the 2020.04 uboot rather than the one working now on our system which is 2016.
>> After adding all our board changes, I can see the SPL loading and setting DDR and TLB entries but once it tries to jump to uboot from mmc_boot() it hangs and I can't get to see anything...has anyone encountered this? Is there something I can do to make sure uboot is actually being jumped to or why the hang? I've set the offsets to go to the _start_e500: instructions like the old uboot. I can share the traces I have if needed. Looking forward to an answer.
> 
> There might have been some issue with certain PowerPC platforms
> introduced after the v2016.xx releases and fixed later than v2020.04,
> and git log might help. Of course, it would be better still if you could
> move to current mainline and then help with PowerPC maintenance, as we
> do need more people helping there. Thanks.
> 


Which board is this for ?

-- sinan