Re: Converting to DM SERIAL for Kirkwood boards

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi Tony,

On 12/19/22 22:22, Tony Dinh wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 11:29 PM Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> On 12/19/22 07:17, Stefan Roese wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>> git checkout 37bb396669b27aa62fe8bc5eeb6bfde92e09c2d3
>>>> Previous HEAD position was 3b44b3fdf2 arm: mvebu: Add support for
>>>> programming LD0 and LD1 eFuse
>>>> HEAD is now at 37bb396669 timer: orion-timer: Only init timer once
>>>>
>>>> This is where the Pogo V4 was frozen during boot. Among the Kirkwood
>>>> boards that I have and used for testing, it is the only one that has
>>>> CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE=y.
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing and git bi-secting.
>>>
>>>> Should I create a new post for would like to continue this topic here
>>>> in this thread?
>>>
>>> Let me check, if I can find the root cause and this problem quickly. If
>>> not, then we should probably disable CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE on the Pogo v4 for
>>> a short while until we've fixed this issue.
>>
>> I fail to spot the problem with this small commit 37bb396669b27a. I can
>> also not reproduce this on my Armada XP board - it uses SPL though, this
>> might make a difference.
>>
>> Could you perhaps apply this attached debug patch and make sure, that
>> you have DEBUG_UART enabled in your Pogo v4 config. And boot into the
>> resulting image.
> 
> Here is the kwboot log with DEBUG_UART. Note that number 322322 below
> is part of the log.
> 
> 322322
> 
> U-Boot 2023.01-rc3-00057-g9bd3d354a1-dirty (Dec 19 2022 - 01:29:21 -0800)
> Pogoplug V4
> 
> SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
> Model: Cloud Engines PogoPlug Series 4
> DRAM:  128 MiB
> 322322322Core:  19 devices, 15 uclasses, devicetree: separate
> NAND:  4

Ah, I totally forgot that this board did not hang before the first UART
output but later after the NAND stage. I added these UART debug infos to
debug an early boot problem before any normal UART output.

Thanks,
Stefan