Monday, September 16, 2024

[fedora-arm] Re: U-Boot 2024.10 testing

Hello.

With U-Boot 2024.10 my Orange Pi simply freezes after some time. Once that was around 30 minutes, but most times the boot process does not finish, it freezes after anything between 5 and 60 seconds. That means it does not always stop at a particular step of the boot process.

I reverted back to the 2023.10 version, and it booted first try. Quite likely there are several differences between 2023.10 and 2024.10 and at least one of those changes is causing those freezes. If it is worth still supporting the Orange Pi Zero Plus I'd suggest producing intermediate versions with less changes, so that we can determine which change causes the freeze.

BR

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.04 13:08:07

Hey,

Yes, the boot completed on the Banana Pi M64.

This morning I tried upgrading my Orange Pi Zero Plus to the rc3 U-Boot, and before rebooting I added those options below. It booted successfully:

When you say "added the options below" you mean the debug ones I
provided? To clarify it boots fine with the debug options and doesn't
boot without them?

If that is the case can you try adding these 3 kernel command line
options "clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused reg_ignore_unused"

Probably add all 3 to begin with and see if it boots, then if you have
time try combinations of the 3 to see if any particular one causes it
to stop booting.

Then I reverted the kernel options back to their previous valuse and I haven't been able to get it to boot again.

I think I have to simply consider this device as unreliable.

So depending on the above I suspect what is happening is that in older
versions of firmware (U-Boot and friends) there was something that was
turned on, likely by accident, that the kernel needs to boot but
U-Boot doesn't and when the kernel starts to boot what is expected to
be there isn't and hence the lack of boot.

My Raspberry Pi and my Rock Pi E have always upgraded fine at the first attempt. No more Allwinner devices for me.

I suspect we're just a little unlucky here, overall I have found all
to have their pluses and their minuses, it all depends on uses cases.

Let me know how you get on with the above. I don't think the issue is
related to U-Boot, and the M64 is fine, so this update certainly makes
the overall Allwinner support in Fedora better so it would be great if
you can update the karma so we can get this into stable while we work
out where the problem lies with the Orange Pi Zero Plus.

P

BR

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.03 19:37:56

On Tue, 3 Sept 2024 at 18:21, Adrian Torregrosa


After reverting back to 2023.07 on the Banana Pi M64 I booted and repeated the dd command. Before rebooting I took the time to read back from the MMC and compare its SHA256 checksum with that of the file /usr/share/uboot/bananapi_m64/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin and that that appears in https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/fileinfo?rpmID=39921997&filename=/usr/share/uboot/bananapi_m64/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin, and the three matched.

Then I rebooted and the boot process completed successfully.


So it completed successfully on the Banana Pi M64?

One difference I observed was that when it failed it showed:


So on a clean system that hasn't booted previously (with the feature)
the OS hasn't updated the EFI entry.

*** U-Boot Boot Menu ***

mmc 0
whereas when it succeeded it showed
*** U-Boot Boot Menu ***

Fedora
mmc 0


That's post boot where the UEFI entry was updated for the OS.

Besides, this error that appears when it failed:
error: ../../grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c:615:failure reading sector 0x1e6f80 from `hd0'.
might be a transient one, I'm not sure about that.


That looks like a problem with an SD card, I wonder if there's a
failed sector or something.

I can't say much more about why the upgrade failed on the Banana Pi the first time while it succeeded the second time. I'll see what I can find with the Orange Pi.


Sometimes adding the following to the kernel command line can give you
a bunch of very early boot debug output which may shed more of a light
as to where the failure is "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 earlycon
uefi_debug earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 debug"

Peter

BR

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.03 17:08:18

On Tue, 3 Sept 2024 at 16:03, Adrian Torregrosa


The grub menu is reached in both cases. Then, the boot fails on the Banana Pi M64 just after a couple of seconds, whereas on the Orange Pi Zero Plus it simply does not complete the boot.


Please debug it rather than just going straight out and giving
negative karma because I don't believe U-Boot is the problem here, and
it's significantly better than the previous version....

BR

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.03 16:49:21

On Tue, 3 Sept 2024 at 15:42, Adrian Torregrosa


Hello.

I'm afraid the new release did not work for any of my two Allwinner devices. The dd commands went through of course but upon rebooting the devices failed to reach the login; please see the console outputs attached.


Those outputs look like I would expect for a working device, I would
expect the grub menu to come up shortly after that. What are you
seeing?

Peter

BR

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.02 23:31:09

Hi Adrian,

I created Bug 2309138 - Allwinner A64 devices fail to boot once their uboot gets upgraded to 2024.04.


So I think uboot-tools-2024.10-0.3.rc3.fc41 should fix the Allwinner
issues, if you could test it and provide karma on the update below
that would be fab. I tested it on my Pine64+


I upgraded mi Radxa Rock Pi E with the UBoot in the rc2 .rpm and as far as I can tell it works fine:

U-Boot TPL 2024.10-rc2 (Aug 15 2024 - 00:00:00)
DDR3, 333MHz
BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=14 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=512MB
Trying to boot from BOOTROM
Returning to boot ROM...

U-Boot SPL 2024.10-rc2 (Aug 15 2024 - 00:00:00 +0000)
Trying to boot from MMC2
## Checking hash(es) for config config-1 ... OK
## Checking hash(es) for Image atf-1 ... sha256+ OK
## Checking hash(es) for Image u-boot ... sha256+ OK
## Checking hash(es) for Image fdt-1 ... sha256+ OK
## Checking hash(es) for Image atf-2 ... sha256+ OK
## Checking hash(es) for Image atf-3 ... sha256+ OK
NOTICE: BL31: v2.10.4(release):
NOTICE: BL31: Built : 00:00:00, Jul 17 2024
NOTICE: BL31:Rockchip release version: v1.2


U-Boot 2024.10-rc2 (Aug 15 2024 - 00:00:00 +0000)

Model: Radxa ROCK Pi E
DRAM: 512 MiB (effective 510 MiB)
PMIC: RK805 (on=0x40, off=0x01)
Core: 244 devices, 29 uclasses, devicetree: separate
MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1, mmc@ff520000: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... Reading from MMC(1)... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In: serial@ff130000
Out: serial@ff130000
Err: serial@ff130000
Model: Radxa ROCK Pi E
Net: eth0: ethernet@ff540000
Found DTB: rockchip/rk3328-rock-pi-e.dtb
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110

*** U-Boot Boot Menu ***

Fedora
mmc 1
Exit


Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select, ESC to quit
Booting: Fedora
Found DTB: rockchip/rk3328-rock-pi-e.dtb
ethernet@ff540000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete....... done
Speed: 1000, full duplex
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Best regards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Torregrosa <adrian.torregrosa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.09.01 19:43:27

Hi Adrian,

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my Orange Pi Zero Plus and my Sinovoip Banana Pi M64, both of which are based on Allwinner 64, from F39 to F40. That went fine so after that I attempted upgrading their UBoots and that did not work:


I think I've got to the bottom of the issue, any chance you can do a
F-41 bug report for me? Link below should go straight there for you.


So I reverted back to U-Boot SPL 2023.07.

This afternoon I tried upgrading the Banana Pi to this rc2 version and the result was quite similar:


Yup, it's the same.

For the record, I was able to upgrade my Raspberry Pi 3B's and my Radxa Rock Pi E's UBoots to 2024.04.


What about to the 2024.10 RC builds in F-41? You can use the F-41
U-Boot without having to upgrade the OS. Mostly interested in the
RockPi as I can test the RPi3.

Thanks,
Peter

Best regards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
Subject: [fedora-arm] U-Boot 2024.10 testing
Date: 2024.08.16 12:45:29

Hi Folks,

I've started building the 2024.10 RCs in F-41+ so it would be great to
get some testing.

I found that at least the Allwinner a64 devices looked like they
regressed in F-40 and I've tested the Pine64+ with the rc2 build and I
think they should be OK now.

It would be great if people could test and provide some feedback on
these builds as we go towards F-41 beta freeze.


Peter







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