[U-Boot] Generic bootcmd handling: Missing 'scsi scan'

Hans de Goede
2014-09-15T17:59:09Z

Hi,

On 09/15/2014 07:22 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 09/14/2014 12:00 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi Karsten,
>>
>> Thanks for testing this!
>>
>> On 09/14/2014 05:43 PM, Karsten Merker wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am currently testing the new bootcmd handling introduced at
>>> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=8cc96848f0a467922820895b6b2363b0c64163b5
>>> on a sunxi-based system running u-boot v2014.10-rc2.
>>>
>>> When installing to MMC, everything works as expected; the
>>> boot.scr on the first MMC partition is found and executed.
>>>
>>> When installing to a SATA disk, the following happens:
>>>
>>> U-Boot 2014.10-rc2 (Sep 04 2014 - 07:32:33) Allwinner Technology
>>>
>>> CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
>>> I2C: ready
>>> DRAM: 2 GiB
>>> MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
>>> In: serial
>>> Out: serial
>>> Err: serial
>>> SCSI: SUNXI SCSI INIT
>>> Target spinup took 0 ms.
>>> AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
>>> flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
>>> Net: dwmac.1c50000
>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
>>> switch to partitions #0, OK
>>> mmc0 is current device
>>> Scanning mmc 0...
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>> ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
>>>
>>> SCSI device 0:
>>> Device 0: device type unknown
>>> ... is now current device
>>> Scanning scsi 0...
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> ** Bad device size - scsi 0 **
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The last block is the output of running ${scsi_boot}:
>>>
>>> sun7i# printenv scsi_boot
>>> scsi_boot=if scsi dev ${devnum}; then setenv devtype scsi; run scan_dev_for_boot; fi
>>>
>>> What appears to be missing here, is a previous 'scsi scan' command.
>>> When prepending it to ${scsi_boot}, everything works as expected:
>>>
>>> sun7i# printenv scsi_boot
>>> scsi_boot=scsi scan; if scsi dev 0; then setenv devtype scsi; run scan_dev_for_boot; fi
>>> sun7i# run scsi_boot
>>> scanning bus for devices...
>>> Device 0: (0:0) Vendor: ATA Prod.: HGST HTS541010A9 Rev: JA0O
>>> Type: Hard Disk
>>> Capacity: 953869.7 MB = 931.5 GB (1953525168 x 512)
>>> Found 1 device(s).
>>>
>>> SCSI device 0:
>>> Device 0: (0:0) Vendor: ATA Prod.: HGST HTS541010A9 Rev: JA0O
>>> Type: Hard Disk
>>> Capacity: 953869.7 MB = 931.5 GB (1953525168 x 512)
>>> ... is now current device
>>> Scanning scsi 0...
>>> Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
>>> 2033 bytes read in 20 ms (98.6 KiB/s)
>>> ## Executing script at 43100000
>>>
>>> Could you add a 'scsi scan' command to the generic bootcmd
>>> handling infrastructure?
>>
>> A good question, I wonder if this is something which would be considered
>> SoC specific, or if all SoCs need this though?
>>
>> Stephen (added to the To) what is your take on this ?
>
> Hmmm. 'mmc_dev' detects the media each time it's executed. However, I suppose that's appropriate because each MMC controller is connected 1:1 with a device. Such automatic scanning might not be a good idea for larger buses where scanning could take a long time. Perhaps you can copy the style of $usb_boot, and prefix a "run $scsi_init" onto the front of it in the same way?

So perhaps something like the patch below ?

Karsten, can you give this a try ?

Note I'm not sure my mail client will not mangle this when inlined like
this (normally I use git send-email for patches). So I've also attached
the patch.

Regards,

Hans