Hello Tom, On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 01:23:11PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 07:00:08PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > > On 1/14/23 18:22, Tom Rini wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:57:20AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 08:27:25AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 08:25:19AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote: > > > > > > Hi Francesco, > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 2:18 PM Francesco Dolcini > > > > > > <france...@dolcini.it> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswi...@toradex.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Without the DM_EVENT absolutely no output whatsoever and the > > > > > > > system does > > > > > > > not boot at all. > > > > > > > > > > > > Why do we need to select CONFIG_EVENT=y in the first place? > > > > > > > > > > > > Oliver on CC reported the same issue for his board, and we have > > > > > > other > > > > > > broken boards too > > > > > > that do not select CONFIG_EVENT=y. > > > > > > > > > > > > Can we have a generic fix for this? > > > > > > > > > > > > Tom, Heinrich? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, if someone can explain what the problem is, we can correct the > > > > > dependency. I gather most platforms have whatever this problem is > > > > > ignored due to enabling EFI_LOADER. > > > > > > > > The more I look at this, the more confused I get. With DEBUG_UART > > > > enabled, where do thing fail without CONFIG_EVENT (and CONFIG_DM_EVENT, > > > > which is then enabled due to "imply DM_EVENT" in arch/arm/Kconfig, under > > > > ARCH_IMX8) ? How about if you turn DM_EVENT back off? > > > > > > The only other data point I can add right now is that it's not entirely > > > generic, I think. I can disable EFI_LOADER and EVENT and DM_EVENT on > > > am65x_evm (both r5 and a53 portions) and still boot up fine. I don't > > > have something imx8 in my lab, however. > > > > > > > I cannot find event_register() used outside of > > lib/efi_driver/efi_block_device.c and test/common/event.c) > > > > Why should any board with CONFIG_EFI_LOADER=n depend on events? > > There's other events, using EVENT_SPY(...). I'm working on a patch to > fix things up now.
Given that this is now solved by your patch Tom, we can just drop this, together with patch 10. The question here is if I should send another series with those 2 removed or you just do not apply those. Francesco