[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

Hi,

   The 2009.03 and possibly 2009.01 u-boot releases have a problem
with JFFS2. Looks like it's not really platform specific, but it
affects the AVR32 boards [1].
   Not sure if it's connected, but also flinfo presents wrong addresses.

   I'm seeing this with 2009.03, but the message[1] talks about 2009.01
   Is anyone else having these problems? I've just flashed 2008.10 and
it works properly.

   Should we deal with 2009.03 and 2009.01 in any special way? (Drop
them, comment as broken JFFS2?)

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg09872.html

Kind Regards,
   Thiago A. Correa

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:55:57 -0300
Thiago A. Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    The 2009.03 and possibly 2009.01 u-boot releases have a problem
> with JFFS2. Looks like it's not really platform specific, but it
> affects the AVR32 boards [1].
>    Not sure if it's connected, but also flinfo presents wrong
> addresses.
> 
>    I'm seeing this with 2009.03, but the message[1] talks about
> 2009.01 Is anyone else having these problems? I've just flashed
> 2008.10 and it works properly.
> 

Last working version for AVR32 is 2008.10 :/ The 2009.01 release had
another issue, which H?vard just spotted before release, too late to do
the fix. 2009.03 is broken regarding JFFS2, at least for AVR32.

>    Should we deal with 2009.03 and 2009.01 in any special way? (Drop
> them, comment as broken JFFS2?)
> 

At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope 2009.05 can make us dump
all the previous ones.

<snipp>

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

Hi,

2009/4/30 Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>:
> Last working version for AVR32 is 2008.10 :/ The 2009.01 release had
> another issue, which H?vard just spotted before release, too late to do
> the fix. 2009.03 is broken regarding JFFS2, at least for AVR32.

From what I've seen of the fix at the maintainer tree, it should
affect all platforms. I just find it funny that no one has complained
before.

>> ? ?Should we deal with 2009.03 and 2009.01 in any special way? (Drop
>> them, comment as broken JFFS2?)
>>
>
> At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope 2009.05 can make us dump
> all the previous ones.
>

Done. But I wonder if we should take more steps in this regard. One
thing is to have packages that don't build, another is a package that
builds but fails at run time with known upstream bugs. Being the
bootloader, it could brick boards from unaware users without a JTAGICE
mkII.

Kind Regards,
    Thiago A. Correa

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:28:08 -0300
Thiago A. Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> wrote:

<snipp>

> >> ? ?Should we deal with 2009.03 and 2009.01 in any special way?
> >> (Drop them, comment as broken JFFS2?)
> >>
> >
> > At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope 2009.05 can make us
> > dump all the previous ones.
> >
> 
> Done. But I wonder if we should take more steps in this regard. One
> thing is to have packages that don't build, another is a package that
> builds but fails at run time with known upstream bugs. Being the
> bootloader, it could brick boards from unaware users without a JTAGICE
> mkII.
> 

Hmmm, indeed, you are not able to erase and reprogram a new bootloader
either. You could boot Linux and program the bootloader there though.

There is a flash-upgrade [1] tool, but that will only work on AVR32
hooked up to Atmel flash devices.

1: http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FlashUpgrade

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thiago> Done. But I wonder if we should take more steps in this
 Thiago> regard. One thing is to have packages that don't build,
 Thiago> another is a package that builds but fails at run time with
 Thiago> known upstream bugs. Being the bootloader, it could brick
 Thiago> boards from unaware users without a JTAGICE mkII.

I would guess (hope?) that people don't blindly upgrade stuff that
could brick their boards.

Newertheless, we could add a warning in BR Kconfig for AVR32 if the
jffs2 stuff is selected and 2009.01 / 2009.03.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Hans-Christian" == Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

 Hans-Christian> Last working version for AVR32 is 2008.10 :/ The
 Hans-Christian> 2009.01 release had another issue, which H?vard just
 Hans-Christian> spotted before release, too late to do the
 Hans-Christian> fix.

Do you mean the u-boot-2009.01-include_asm-avr32_io.h.patch.avr32 fix?

 Hans-Christian> 2009.03 is broken regarding JFFS2, at least for

So it's a known issue? Who's working on it? I didn't notice it on the
u-boot list (I only skim that list, so that might be why though).

 Hans-Christian> At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope
 Hans-Christian> 2009.05 can make us dump all the previous ones.

Or alternatively backport the fix to 2009.03 so we don't end up with 4
versions (8/10, 9/1, 9/3 and 9/5).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:06:00 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "Hans-Christian" == Hans-Christian Egtvedt
> >>>>> <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Hans-Christian> Last working version for AVR32 is 2008.10 :/ The
>  Hans-Christian> 2009.01 release had another issue, which H?vard just
>  Hans-Christian> spotted before release, too late to do the
>  Hans-Christian> fix.
> 
> Do you mean the u-boot-2009.01-include_asm-avr32_io.h.patch.avr32 fix?
> 

Probably, I've not used upstream BR for some time.

>  Hans-Christian> 2009.03 is broken regarding JFFS2, at least for
> 
> So it's a known issue? Who's working on it? I didn't notice it on the
> u-boot list (I only skim that list, so that might be why though).
> 

Yes, it was reported initially as

Subject: JFFS2 scanning bug

Then

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Fix JFFS2 NOR sector size routine

And anything which propagated from that. I did not stick around to see
the final conclusion.

>  Hans-Christian> At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope
>  Hans-Christian> 2009.05 can make us dump all the previous ones.
> 
> Or alternatively backport the fix to 2009.03 so we don't end up with 4
> versions (8/10, 9/1, 9/3 and 9/5).
> 

Mmm, 2009.05 will hopefully be nice and flying.

-- 
Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Hans-Christian" == Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> So it's a known issue? Who's working on it? I didn't notice it on the
 >> u-boot list (I only skim that list, so that might be why though).
 >> 

 Hans-Christian> Yes, it was reported initially as

 Hans-Christian> Subject: JFFS2 scanning bug

 Hans-Christian> Then

 Hans-Christian> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Fix JFFS2 NOR sector size routine

Ok, the followup mail apparently never got sent and the fix isn't in
git.

Thiago, could you try the fix?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/55789

 Hans-Christian> And anything which propagated from that. I did not
 Hans-Christian> stick around to see the final conclusion.

 Hans-Christian> At least make 2008.10 available, and lets hope
 Hans-Christian> 2009.05 can make us dump all the previous ones.
 >> 
 >> Or alternatively backport the fix to 2009.03 so we don't end up with 4
 >> versions (8/10, 9/1, 9/3 and 9/5).
 >> 

 Hans-Christian> Mmm, 2009.05 will hopefully be nice and flying.

Well, the affected people can hope or do the work to make sure it will
be.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Broken u-boot 2009.x, undeprecate u-boot 2008.10

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago A Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thiago> Hi,
 Thiago>    The 2009.03 and possibly 2009.01 u-boot releases have a problem
 Thiago> with JFFS2. Looks like it's not really platform specific, but it
 Thiago> affects the AVR32 boards [1].
 Thiago>    Not sure if it's connected, but also flinfo presents wrong addresses.

 Thiago>    I'm seeing this with 2009.03, but the message[1] talks about 2009.01
 Thiago>    Is anyone else having these problems? I've just flashed 2008.10 and
 Thiago> it works properly.

I use 2009.03 without problems, but I don't use jffs2 (atleast not in
u-boot).

 Thiago>    Should we deal with 2009.03 and 2009.01 in any special way? (Drop
 Thiago> them, comment as broken JFFS2?)

Strange, it seems like that particular problem should have been fixed
by b5b004ad8a0ac6f98bd5708ec8b2 back in December, which is not in
2009.01, but IS in 2009.03.

So what you are seing, must be something else. Try bringing it up on
the u-boot list.

I would prefer to fix the problems in 2009.03 instead of letting
people use the old 2008.10 release, as the new releases have a lot of
bug fixes / new features.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard