Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] u-boot: upgrade 2025.04 -> 2025.07

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

Adding Ilias,

On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 08:29:32AM -0600, Tom Rini via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 10:21:34AM +0200, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> > On Tue Jul 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM CEST, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 02:04:15PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > >> Hi Mathieu,
> > >> 
> > >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM Mathieu Dubois-Briand
> > >> <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue Jul 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM CEST, Fabio Estevam via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> > >> > > Upgrade to U-Boot 2025.07.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
> > >> > > ---
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi Fabio,
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks for your patch.
> > >> >
> > >> > It looks like this is breaking selftests on the autobuilder:
> > >> >
> > >> > 2025-07-08 07:43:52,116 - oe-selftest - INFO - fitimage.UBootFitImageTests.test_sign_cascaded_uboot_fit_image (subunit.RemotedTestCase)
> > >> > 2025-07-08 07:43:52,118 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... FAIL
> > >> > ...
> > >> > ERROR: u-boot-1_2025.07-r0 do_compile: oe_runmake failed
> > >> > ...
> > >> > | arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: cannot find arch/arm/lib/lib.a: No such file or directory
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Both on debian and armhost:
> > >> >
> > >> > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/35/builds/1923
> > >> > https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/23/builds/2077
> > >> >
> > >> > Can you have a look at these failures please?
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks for the report.
> > >> 
> > >> I am adding some folks on CC in case they have some ideas.
> > >
> > > Interesting. How can we trigger that outside of the autobuilder?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It's not so easy to reproduce, as it looks like it is somehow linked
> > with the host environment: this have been failing on debian workers but
> > not on the fedora ones.
> > So basic instructions are below, but this was not enough to reproduce it
> > in the ubuntu 24.4 docker I've been using so far.
> > 
> > git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-ci-archive -b autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/a-full-1972
> > cd poky-ci-archive
> > . oe-init-build-env
> > 
> > Add following lines in conf/local.conf (I bet only the last one is
> > really needed, but let's try to be as close as possible as the
> > autobuilder configuration):
> > MACHINE = "qemux86-64"
> > DISTRO = "poky"
> > SDKMACHINE = "x86_64"
> > PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_rpm"
> > RPM_GPG_SIGN_CHUNK = '1'
> > IMAGE_INSTALL:append = ' ssh-pregen-hostkeys'
> > SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS = ''
> > 
> > Add poky-ci-archive/meta-selftest in conf/bblayers.conf.
> > 
> > And finally, run the tests:
> > oe-selftest -r fitimage.UBootFitImageTests.test_sign_cascaded_uboot_fit_image
> > oe-selftest -r fitimage.UBootFitImageTests.test_sign_standalone_uboot_atf_tee_fit_image
> 
> Yeah, looking at the logs it's not even Debian, it's Ubuntu 22.04, which
> is what we use for our CI too. I guess I would suggest bisect'ing with
> the autobuilder until finding out what commit breaks and then someone
> from the U-Boot side of things can chime in.

I've tried to reproduce this on x86_64 Ubuntu 22.04 build machine
targeting qemuarm and arm64 Ubuntu 24.04 build machine targeting
beaglebone. No luck so far. In my builds, lib.a has always been
created in before any other linking steps happens. I presume this is a
race condition where linking step of lib/efi_loader/testapp_efi.so
does not actually have a dependency to the lib.a creating linking step.

I'm not familiar enough with u-boot/Kconfig build setups to see where this
dependency should be added.

From do_compile log in passing case:

set -e; mkdir -p include/generated/;    (echo \#define PLAIN_VERSION \"2025.07\"; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION \"U-Boot \" PLAIN_VERSION; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM 2025; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM_PATCH $(echo 07 | sed -e "s/^0*//"); echo \#define HOST_ARCH 0x00a7; echo \#define CC_VERSION_STRING \"$(LC_ALL=C arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  --sysroot=/home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot  -ffile-prefix-map=/home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/sources/u-boot-2025.07=/usr/src/debug/u-boot/2025.07  -ffile-prefix-map=/home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/build=/usr/src/debug/u-boot/2025.07  -ffile-prefix-map=/home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot=  -ffile-prefix-map=/home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot-native=  --version | head -n 1)\"; echo \#define LD_VERSION_STRING \"$(LC_ALL=C arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd --version | head -n 1)\"; ) < include/config/uboot.release > include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; if [ -r include/generated/version_autogenerated.h ] && cmp -s include/generated/version_autogenerated.h include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; then rm -f include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; else : '  UPD     include/generated/version_autogenerated.h'; mv -f include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp include/generated/version_autogenerated.h; fi
...
  rm -f arch/arm/lib/lib.a; arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ar cDPrsT arch/arm/lib/lib.a arch/arm/lib/ashldi3.o arch/arm/lib/ashrdi3.o arch/arm/lib/div0.o arch/arm/lib/div64.o arch/arm/lib/lib1funcs.o arch/arm/lib/lshrdi3.o arch/arm/lib/muldi3.o arch/arm/lib/uldivmod.o
...
  arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd -nostdlib -zexecstack -znocombreloc -znorelro --no-warn-rwx-segments -L /home/mcfrisk/src/base/repo/poky/build_beaglebone/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/sources/u-boot-2025.07 -T arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -s lib/efi_loader/testapp.o lib/efi_loader/efi_crt0.o lib/efi_loader/efi_reloc.o lib/efi_loader/efi_freestanding.o arch/arm/lib/lib.a -o lib/efi_loader/testapp_efi.so

Looks like testapp_efi.so linking step is the first one using
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd.

Failing case:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/api/v2/logs/2914600/raw_inline

| set -e; mkdir -p include/generated/; 	(echo \#define PLAIN_VERSION \"2025.07\"; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION \"U-Boot \" PLAIN_VERSION; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM 2025; echo \#define U_BOOT_VERSION_NUM_PATCH $(echo 07 | sed -e "s/^0*//"); echo \#define HOST_ARCH 0x00a7; echo \#define CC_VERSION_STRING \"$(LC_ALL=C arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc  --sysroot=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot  -ffile-prefix-map=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/sources/u-boot-2025.07=/usr/src/debug/u-boot/2025.07  -ffile-prefix-map=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/build=/usr/src/debug/u-boot/2025.07  -ffile-prefix-map=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot=  -ffile-prefix-map=/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/recipe-sysroot-native=  --version | head -n 1)\"; echo \#define LD_VERSION_STRING \"$(LC_ALL=C arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd --version | head -n 1)\"; ) < include/config/uboot.release > include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; if [ -r include/generated/version_autogenerated.h ] && cmp -s include/generated/version_autogenerated.h include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; then rm -f include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp; else : '  UPD     include/generated/version_autogenerated.h'; mv -f include/generated/version_autogenerated.h.tmp include/generated/version_autogenerated.h; fi
...
|    rm -f lib/efi_loader/built-in.o; arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ar cDPrsT lib/efi_loader/built-in.o lib/efi_loader/efi_bootmgr.o lib/efi_loader/efi_bootbin.o lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.o lib/efi_loader/efi_helper.o lib/efi_loader/efi_console.o lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path.o lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path_to_text.o lib/efi_loader/efi_device_path_utilities.o lib/efi_loader/efi_dt_fixup.o lib/efi_loader/efi_fdt.o lib/efi_loader/efi_file.o lib/efi_loader/efi_hii.o lib/efi_loader/efi_hii_config.o lib/efi_loader/efi_image_loader.o lib/efi_loader/efi_load_options.o lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.o lib/efi_loader/efi_root_node.o lib/efi_loader/efi_runtime.o lib/efi_loader/efi_setup.o lib/efi_loader/efi_string.o lib/efi_loader/efi_unicode_collation.o lib/efi_loader/efi_var_common.o lib/efi_loader/efi_var_mem.o lib/efi_loader/efi_variable.o lib/efi_loader/efi_var_file.o lib/efi_loader/efi_watchdog.o lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.o lib/efi_loader/efi_net.o lib/efi_loader/efi_smbios.o lib/efi_loader/efi_load_initrd.o lib/efi_loader/efi_conformance.o
|   arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd -nostdlib -zexecstack -znocombreloc -znorelro --no-warn-rwx-segments -L /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/oe-selftest-armhost/build/build-st-3119200/tmp/work/beaglebone_yocto-poky-linux-gnueabi/u-boot/2025.07/sources/u-boot-2025.07 -T arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds -shared -Bsymbolic -s lib/efi_loader/helloworld.o lib/efi_loader/efi_crt0.o lib/efi_loader/efi_reloc.o lib/efi_loader/efi_freestanding.o arch/arm/lib/lib.a -o lib/efi_loader/helloworld_efi.so
| arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: cannot find arch/arm/lib/lib.a: No such file or directory
| make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.lib:512: lib/efi_loader/helloworld_efi.so] Error 1

In this failing log, nothing created lib.a before lib/efi_loader/helloworld_efi.so
link step started.

Cheers,

-Mikko