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

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 07:08:54PM +0200, Kory Maincent wrote:
> 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 The next branch will be out of date until it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

Same. There's some implicit dependencies around I believe. Doing "-k ut"
should work, as I tried that (via my wrapper around all this) as well as
just running all the tests (which is longer).

-- 
Tom
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