From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Harvey Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 13:57:03 -0800 Subject: request for i.MX8MM Venice test In-Reply-To: References: <20210307031001.2a1a8bb2@nic.cz> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:43 PM Adam Ford wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:35 PM Tim Harvey wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:47 AM Tim Harvey wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 6:10 PM Marek Behun wrote: > > > > > > > > [sorry for the spam, I accidentally sent this e-mail from my personal > > > > address] > > > > > > > > Hello Tim, > > > > > > > > you are listed as maintainer of i.MX8MM Venice board in U-Boot. > > > > > > > > I am currently working on LTO support for U-Boot, and I have > > > > encountered a problem with i.MX8MM Venice board: > > > > when LTO is enabled, the linking process for SPL does not throw away > > > > relocation information, making the resulting SPL image too big for that > > > > board. > > > > > > > > I have added a patch that discards symbols from .rela* section to my > > > > patch series, but I would like you to test whether the patch series > > > > works for your board and does not break anything. > > > > > > > > Could you please clone https://github.com/elkablo/u-boot branch lto, > > > > build for imx8mm_venice_defconfig and test whether it boots on your > > > > board and maybe test some U-Boot commands (disk reads, kernel > > > > booting, ...)? If it does not work, could you also please check with > > > > current U-Boot master, to see if it got broken with my patches or with > > > > something different? > > > > > > > > > > Marek, > > > > > > Your lto branch does not boot - I don't get anything after the SPL > > > banner. U-Boot master shows the same problem so some regression has > > > taken place. > > > > > > There should be several other IMX8 boards using SPL that show the same > > > issue I would think? > > > > > > I will have to bisect to find the breakage. > > > > > > > Marek, > > > > My testing may be flawed as I'm having issues with even the branches I > > submitted to add my board (which I previously tested without issues). > > I'm not sure if I'm having a compiler related issue or something else. > > > > Perhaps there is another IMX8 SPL user out there that can test with > > your patches while I figure out what's wrong on my end? > > I have tested and booted an i.MX8M Nano with a slightly older revision > of Marek's git repo. I wrongly assumed that the Mini and Nano were > close enough to not warrant testing on the mini, but based on what I'm > hearing, I will test the Beacon i.mx8mm board. I can try to do that > sometime later this week. > Marek / Adam, I found the issues with my board, got them resolved, and was able to test the lto branch and it appears to work just fine with imx8mm-venice SPL. Best regards, Tim