On 07.11.2013, at 15:45, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> wrote:

> 
> Le 07/11/2013 15:12, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>> On 07.11.2013, at 14:37, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> Le 07/11/2013 14:19, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>> On 07.11.2013, at 14:15, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Le 07/11/2013 14:04, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>>>> On 07.11.2013, at 14:00, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Le 07/11/2013 13:34, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>>>>>> On 07.11.2013, at 13:19, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Le 07/11/2013 11:17, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>> On 07.11.2013, at 11:14, Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@free.fr> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> here are some tests results of 13.1 images. Results are pretty bad 
>>>>>>>>>>> ATM. :(
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> * Beagleboard xM rev B :
>>>>>>>>>>> - Image fails to boot with the following error message:
>>>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>>>> [    8.109588] Freeing unused kernel memory: 532K (c07e5000 - 
>>>>>>>>>>> c086a000)
>>>>>>>>>>> setterm: cannot (un)set powersave mode: Inappropriate ioctl for 
>>>>>>>>>>> device
>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/sbin/klogconsole
>>>>>>>>>>> Thu Nov  7 00:00:00 UTC 2013
>>>>>>>>>>> [   13.670684] ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: Can't get PHY device for port 
>>>>>>>>>>> 1: -6
>>>>>>>>>>> [   15.271728] hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1.  Maybe the USB 
>>>>>>>>>>> cable is bad?
>>>>>>>>>>> [437097081.923981] Including oem partition info file
>>>>>>>>>>> [437097082.043030] Searching for boot device...
>>>>>>>>>>> [   16.471771] hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1.  Maybe the USB 
>>>>>>>>>>> cable is bad?
>>>>>>>>>>> [   17.671752] hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1.  Maybe the USB 
>>>>>>>>>>> cable is bad?
>>>>>>>>>>> [   18.925598] hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 1.  Maybe the USB 
>>>>>>>>>>> cable is bad?
>>>>>>>>>>> [   18.933227] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1
>>>>>>>>>>> [437097110.607544] Failed to find boot device !
>>>>>>>>>>> [437097110.639527] rebootException: reboot in 120 sec...
>>>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> The USB problem seems to be known: 
>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg90670.html
>>>>>>>>>>> Is boot problem related? I do not know.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> D6 and D7 lights (related to MMC) are turned OFF when kernel start 
>>>>>>>>>>> whereas it was ON with u-boot.
>>>>>>>>>>> So, MMC seems to be not working at all. It seems that kernel 
>>>>>>>>>>> modules (at least omap mmc modules) from initrd are not loaded. 
>>>>>>>>>>> Very strange.
>>>>>>>>>> If you boot with kiwidebug=1 you should be able to get a shell and 
>>>>>>>>>> check whether the modules are loaded or not.
>>>>>>>>> Indeed, mmc modules are not loaded. But loading them manually does 
>>>>>>>>> not help to get mmc device to appear. I think we are missing other 
>>>>>>>>> drivers (maybe GPIO).
>>>>>>>> Could you quickly compare the defconfig for omap4 and the one we have 
>>>>>>>> to see what we're missing?
>>>>>>> I think it is missing from initrd only, not rootfs, since initrd has 
>>>>>>> only some of kernel modules. I will try to add some kernel modules to 
>>>>>>> our initrd and see if it helps.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> * Pandaboard rev A3 :
>>>>>>>>>>> - Image hangs early with the following message: (Tested with 2 SD 
>>>>>>>>>>> cards).
>>>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>>>> U-Boot SPL 2013.04 (Oct 21 2013 - 22:37:21)
>>>>>>>>>>> OMAP4430 ES2.2
>>>>>>>>>>> OMAP SD/MMC: 0
>>>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Is there anyone who could test those images on their baords, 
>>>>>>>>>>> especially pandaboard?
>>>>>>>>>> Andrew reported the same issue. Could you please try with 12.3's SPL 
>>>>>>>>>> (MLO) and/or u-boot.bin to boil down which component is at fault 
>>>>>>>>>> here?
>>>>>>>>> I managed to get u-boot working using old MLO (and copying u-boot.bin 
>>>>>>>>> from boot/ folder to the root of the boot partition).
>>>>>>>> Does only replacing one of the two help already?
>>>>>>> Yes, replacing MLO only does help. I think our ext2 patch for MLO may 
>>>>>>> be broken for 13.1 u-boot. Maybe we could bump u-boot version at the 
>>>>>>> same time we check MLO patch?
>>>>>> Hrm. We're at rc2 here. Maybe it is a good idea to bump the version 
>>>>>> after all. Sigh.
>>>>> Could you do it, please? I will not have time for that ATM. :(
>>>> I can try, but if I don't get around until Saturday it won't happen for at 
>>>> least another week.
>>> Ok. Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> But now, I get the following error in u-boot:
>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>> U-Boot SPL 2013.04-rc2 (Apr 17 2013 - 07:35:53)
>>>>>>>>> OMAP4430 ES2.2
>>>>>>>>> OMAP SD/MMC: 0
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> U-Boot 2013.04 (Oct 21 2013 - 22:37:21)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> CPU  : OMAP4430 ES2.2
>>>>>>>>> Board: OMAP4 Panda
>>>>>>>>> I2C:   ready
>>>>>>>>> DRAM:  1 GiB
>>>>>>>>> MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0
>>>>>>>>> Using default environment
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> In:    serial
>>>>>>>>> Out:   serial
>>>>>>>>> Err:   serial
>>>>>>>>> Net:   No ethernet found.
>>>>>>>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>>>>>>>>> mmc0 is current device
>>>>>>>>> SD/MMC found on device 0
>>>>>>>>> 1562 bytes read in 12 ms (127 KiB/s)
>>>>>>>>> Running bootscript from mmc0 ...
>>>>>>>>> ## Executing script at 82000000
>>>>>>>>> kerneladdr=0x80000000
>>>>>>>>> ramdiskaddr=0x82000000
>>>>>>>>> itest - return true/false on integer compare
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Usage:
>>>>>>>>> itest [.b, .w, .l, .s] [*]value1 <op> [*]value2
>>>>>>>>> mmc0 is current device
>>>>>>>>> ** File not found boot/linux.vmx **
>>>>>>>>> 4417952 bytes read in 241 ms (17.5 MiB/s)
>>>>>>>>> ** File not found /boot/omap4-panda-es.dtb **
>>>>>>>>> Booting from mmc0 ...
>>>>>>>>> ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree
>>>>>>>>> Could not find a valid device tree
>>>>>>>>> ********************************************************************************
>>>>>>>>> the problem is that bootpart has a bad value.
>>>>>>>>> 'echo $bootpart' returns '0:2' instead of 0.
>>>>>>>>> This is the default value in u-boot for panda but should be 
>>>>>>>>> overwritten by our script. Why not?
>>>>>>> I found the problem. We must reset $bootpart otherwise value is not 
>>>>>>> updated.
>>>>>> Or use a different variable name? ;)
>>>>> bootpart is the right name I think, we just need to update it after 
>>>>> loading our script.
>>>> IIRC I set everything up in a way that you can always override any 
>>>> variable from nvram, if you have persistent nvram.
>>> At u-boot load, u-boot try to get a working environment from flash, if it 
>>> fails it redefines all vars. Moreover, in our script, we do not call 
>>> saveenv to save datas. So, it should be fine to reset bootpart before 
>>> updating it.
>>> No? Maybe I miss something, since I am not familiar with nvram.
>> Ok, forget what I said.
>> 
>> So you're saying that the for loop does not update $bootpart when it already 
>> contains a value? That sounds pretty broken. Yes, just reset it before the 
>> for loop then.
> 
> Yes, this is what I said. (Tested on pandaboard). Maybe it is not broken but 
> a feature? ;)
> 
>> 
>>>>>>>>> 'itest' error can easily be fixed by setting usefdt and loadfdt to 0 
>>>>>>>>> by default. (I could submit a patch for this one later).
>>>>>>>> i thought we do an itest 0$var = 0 or so exactly to not run into this?
>>>>>>> Yes. But it seems there is still a problem with one of the itest.
>>>>>>> Defaulting to 0 is not a big deal.
>>>>>> ok :)
>>>>> I found the problem. U-boot already defines loadfdt:
>>>>> echo $loadfdt
>>>>> load mmc ${bootpart} ${fdtaddr} ${bootdir}/${fdtfile}
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do we want to change our var name our do we overwrite loadfdt?
>>>> We want to change the var name.
>>> Ok. load_fdt or something else?
>> Let's make it obvious:
>> 
>>  should_load_fdt
>>  should_use_fdt
> 
> Ok.
> 
> One more thing. Upstream uses $fdtfile and we are using $fdt. Should we 
> update to $fdtfile? I think so, since beagle and panda have a special 
> function (findfdt) which set $fdtfile to the right file for a given board 
> version/revision.

Works for me, if this is truly universal in upstream u-boot and not just an 
OMAP specific thing.


Alex

> 
> 
>> 
>>>>> I think overwriting a u-boot var is not a good idea. Moreover, why do we 
>>>>> have 2 vars: usefdt and loadfdt? if we want to use DT, we must load it. 
>>>>> And we do not need to load it if we do not use it. Isn't it?
>>>>> I would like to remove loadfdt and only use usefdt. Are you ok?
>>>> Not at all.
>>>> 
>>>> On highbank and midway we already get a working device tree preloaded by 
>>>> firmware. There we do not have to load an fdt, but only use it.
>>> Good to know. Thanks for info.
>>> In melea1000/cubieboard, we load DT but we do not use it (in bootz 
>>> cmdline). Does the kernel read a specific addr for DT or is it a bug?
>> I'd say it's a bug. But I know very little about the way Allwinner SoCs work.
> 
> Well, it seems it is not very a DT but they call this a sys_config file. So 
> let's it like this.
> 
> 
>> Hrm. Maybe the kernel gets relocated down? I have no idea.
>> functions it wants to call. We should never reach that as instructions that 
>> get executed.
>> 
>> I'm also slightly confused why this happens. This is the same kernel as the 
>> beagle one, right? So there really should be no major difference between the 
>> two kernel execution paths.
> 
> Yes, this is very strange. Maybe a bad loading addr? Or an overlap with 
> initrd? I do not know.
> 
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> 
> 
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