[PATCH v3 00/20] Convert extension support to UCLASS and adds its support to boot flows

[Kory Maincent]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:05:27 -0600
Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 05:23:45PM +0200, Kory Maincent wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:37:29 -0600
> > Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 08:15:48AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:  
> > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 11:50:09AM +0200, Kory Maincent wrote:    
> > > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:48:37 -0600
> > > > > Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > > > >     
> > > > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Simon Glass wrote:    
> > > > > > > Hi Kory,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 at 14:32, Kory Maincent (TI.com)
> > > > > > > <kory.maincent at bootlin.com> wrote:      
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > This series converts the extension board framework to use
> > > > > > > > UCLASS as requested by Simon Glass, then adds extension support
> > > > > > > > to pxe_utils and bootmeth_efi (not tested) to enable extension
> > > > > > > > boards devicetree load in the standard boot process.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I can't test the imx8 extension scan enabled by the
> > > > > > > > imx8mm-cl-iot-gate_defconfig as I don't have this board.
> > > > > > > > I also can't test the efi bootmeth change as I don't have such
> > > > > > > > board.      
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > You can test this with sandbox, using one of the bootmeth tests,
> > > > > > > perhaps. Let me know if you need help with this.      
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > But the question is, does the real hardware platform work
> > > > > > before/after this, not does the sandbox test still work
> > > > > > before/after this.    
> > > > > 
> > > > > It seems the bootlflow scan is not working on the sandbox on next
> > > > > branch. Is this issue known?    
> > > > 
> > > > Is it fine on master? The next branch will be out of date until it
> > > > re-opens with -rc2 being released (2 weeks from today).    
> > > 
> > > ... out of sync local calendar, 3 weeks from today, not 2.  
> > 
> > bootstd test suit is not working on master with the sandbox_defconfig:
> > https://termbin.com/un0p
> > 
> > Noticeable things are;
> > test/boot/bootdev.c:160, bootdev_test_any(): 0 == bootdev_find_by_any(seq,
> > &dev, &mflags): Expected 0x0 (0), got 0xffffffed (-19) Test:
> > bootdev_test_any: bootdev.c (flat tree) test/boot/bootdev.c:160,
> > bootdev_test_any(): 0 == bootdev_find_by_any(seq, &dev, &mflags): Expected
> > 0x0 (0), got 0xffffffed (-19) Test 'bootdev_test_any' failed 2 times
> > 
> > And a nice segfault:
> > Test: bootflow_set_arg: bootflow.c
> > Test: bootflow_system: bootflow.c
> > [3]    569337 segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./u-boot
> > 
> > Maybe things are missing to run sandbox_defconfig on my computer?
> > With the sandbox64_defconfig there is not core dump anymore but there is
> > still the failed line:
> > Test 'bootdev_test_bootable' failed 2 times
> > 
> > And the uboot is reboot infinitely during the bootflow test:
> > ./u-boot -T -c "ut bootstd"
> > https://termbin.com/alu5  
> 
> I see the same thing you do when running them outside of pytest, but
> they're also fine within pytest.
> https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/develop/pytest/usage.html should help
> get you started, and you can just run all of the ut tests under that.

Weird I got errors also within pytest.
See the html test log attached generated by the following command:
./test/py/test.py --bd sandbox -k bootstd

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com