[PATCH 0/2] Fix MIPS/Malta target and its IDE work

Reinoud Zandijk
2021-02-22T19:56:46Z

Hi Daniel,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:23:26PM +0100, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22.02.2021, 18:05 +0100 schrieb Reinoud Zandijk:
> > Patch 0001 re-enables FDT inclusion into the u-boot binary to make
> > them boot
> > again. The code might not have adjusted well enough in the past to
> > handle the
> > separate one.
>
> what exactly is the issue? Do you see it just on real hardware?
>
> Booting all Malta variants in Qemu is contained in official U-Boot CI
> and showed no boot failures until now. Unfortuneately I don't have
> Malta hardware myself for testing.

If I remove it, the machine just spins in Qemu, no output, nothing. If I add
it, it works fine again. I found out by bisecting. I have no idea why the
tests aren't picking this up. Could it be a qemu/gcc/binutils combination
issue? A symbol not set as expected?

qemu 5.1.0
gcc 8.3.0
binutils 2.32

> Also CONFIG_OF_EMBED is just a debug option and should be avoided for
> production builds. So if there is a real problem, I would prefer to
> rather fix that instead of enabling CONFIG_OF_EMBED.

Thats what I already stated; Its a provisionary fix until the real issue is
tacked. Its now at least known.

With regards,
Reinoud