Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 2/4] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 9f97081

[Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>]

Hello Vincent, all,

On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:19:03 -0500, Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com> wrote:

> Peter, all,
> 
> On 9/23/21 8:58 AM, Vincent Fazio wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > On 9/21/21 3:39 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:  
> >> Hello Vincent, all,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:08:10 -0500, Vincent Fazio 
> >> <vfazio@xes-inc.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Peter, all,
> >>>
> >>> On 9/20/21 4:41 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:  
> >>>> Hello Vincent,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:19:57 -0500, Vincent Fazio 
> >>>> <vfazio@xes-inc.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for the info, only did a quick read of the PR 1619, the problem
> >>>> seems U-boot specific (not the buildroot default case) and there is
> >>>> already a suggested U-boot fix (submitted by you)?  
> >>> Yes, sorry I was not very clear in my email yesterday (I was sending it
> >>> on my way out the door).  
> >> No problem ;-), the hint was/is very valuable!  
>
> This may no longer be an issue other packages have to deal with [1]
>

Thanks for update (and your debugging efforts ;-) ), will update my
patchset the next days...

Regards,
Peter

> >>  
> >>> Yes, u-boot is affected, though I think edk2 may also be affected. The
> >>> u-boot patch has not yet been reviewed and may not make it for 2021.10
> >>>
> >>> I just wanted to give a heads up that bumping this package could have
> >>> consequences for some configurations.  
> >> So there are the following possibilities:
> >>
> >> - never update rpi-firmware to not break legacy u-boot (and maybe 
> >> edk2 and
> >>    maybe linux-mainline and maybe ...) setups  
> > Definitely not recommending this.  
> >> - delay the rpi-firmware update until up-to-date u-boot (and edk2 and 
> >> ...)
> >>    are available (as this bump seems to fix some other regressions e.g
> >>    'kernel: Second attempt to fix the CPU startup failure' [1]
> >>
> >> - apply the rpi-firmware update now and hope that this email thread is
> >>    found by all people affected by the u-boot (and ...) defect, but
> >>    keeps the default buildroot/rpi users up-to-date ;-)  
> >
> > Probably no reason to delay it if there are no default configurations 
> > that utilize the affected packages, but not sure if it deserves a 
> > mention somewhere like 
> > https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_known_issues so 
> > the issue is more clearly advertised until there are patches to fix 
> > the affected packages.
> >
> > I'll let the maintainers decide what to do. Again, I just wanted to 
> > make people aware.
> >  
> >> Regards,
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> [1] 
> >> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/9f9708199f8809ecf16119d0716375bee7b7d8d4
> >>  
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Peter
> >>>>
> >>>>  
> [1] 
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/b5257da58c0e652633592c6fce09a7f3b100a2eb
> 

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