[U-Boot] uboot env in mmc partition

[Peter A. Bigot <pab@pabigot.com>]

On 09/03/2014 09:14 AM, Hannes Petermaier wrote:
>> On 09/03/2014 07:54 AM, Naitik Amin wrote:
>>> Hi Hannes,
>>>
>>> So I did as you had indicated and made some progress, so now, my
> #defines
>>> look as below.
>>> #define CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV          0       /* device 0 */
>>> #define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET               0x21900000
>>>
>>> I calculated the env offset from the block number it was on based on
> the
>>> first block number of the partition.
>>>
>>> Doing this on uboot startup, I dont get the warning saying, using
> default
>>> environment. Neither it complained abt crc error. So it liked it
> seems.
>>> But what it did is it trashed the partition which had my dtb and
> zImage.
>>> Its a completely different partition. So after that, the bootup gets
>>> halted. Any ideas ? What may have trashed the partition ?
>> Look at: http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg146396.html
>>
>> and see if that's relevant, specifically the second patch which restores
>> the mmc device offset calculations to the values that correspond to the
>> partition number that's represented in the device structure.
>>
>> Peter
> Hi Peter,
> i don't think that your patch has influence on this issue, due to no
> partition switching is done anymore.

That may be the case: I missed most of the previous discussion of this 
issue.  All I know is that if mmc->part_num is 0 when the MMC 
environment code is entered, then when it leaves the capacity and lba 
fields of the device are no longer correct.  So it'd seemed plausible 
that if mmc_switch_part were invoked somewhere when looking for an 
environment partition it could explain an anomaly with subsequent use of 
the device.

> Further i would like to check your patch series, i am not sure if there is
> everything ok.
> I will do so tommorow - i am right in thinking that you are using MMC not
> eMMC ?

There is eMMC on the BeagleBone I'm using, but it's been zeroed and is 
not used.  The problem arises in SPL mode on a uSD card with two 
partitions neither of which is an environment.  For full context see the 
meta-ti email thread referenced in the cover letter.

Peter