Re: updating u-boot_2013.07.bb recipe

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>]

Hello Joel,

On 05/27/2016 12:13 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hey Cedric,
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>> The uboot recipe in openbmc is still at 4b44678c11. Without them, I see
>> memory corruption under qemu, so I suppose this is the same for real HW.
>>
>> commit 6f7818cdb8d8 "net: aspeednic: Do not start hardware in initialize"
>> seems to solve the problem.
>>
>> Is there a reason for staying at that level in uboot ? Could we take all
>> Milton's patches in ?
> 
> We updated to 44f1262bdf39ad93032d39f17a298165372be82e just yesterday:
> 
>  https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/commit/265b0d55113d364554102d532177916741c8c379

Ah. I missed that.

So, I baked a new flash and all is fine now. The generated flash boots 
the qemu guest without modification. 

> The hold up related to some discussion around not going back to the
> default compiler:
> 
>  https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/pull/227
> 
> I see Patrick closed this yesterday. I'm not sure what the plans are
> there; I would strongly recommend we go back to the more modern compiler.

u-boot.bin boots a palmetto bmc when compiled with :

	gcc version 5.2.0 (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.22.0)

I didn't try the kernel though.

Cheers,

C.