Re: kirkwood stack size

From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: "Holger Brunck" <holger.brunck@hitachienergy.com>,
	"Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
	U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
	Tony Dinh <mibodhi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: kirkwood stack size
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:10:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5d6d67d-596e-547e-efc5-ee932fe8838f@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR0602MB3666718F3E6856A0D1ED897DF7869@AM0PR0602MB3666.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>

Hi Holger,

On 28.10.21 11:37, Holger Brunck wrote:
> Hi Stefan, Hi Marek,
> 
>> Added Holger, the maintainer of the km_kirkwood boards to Cc...
>>
>> On 28.10.21 03:28, Marek Behún wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:06:58 -0700
>>> Tony Dinh <mibodhi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Marek,
>>>>
>>>> In reference to:
>>>> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-October/465221.html
>>>>
>>>> I have several Kirkwood boards, and currently support these boards in
>>>> mainline: Sheevaplug, Zyxel NSA310S, GoFlex Home, Dockstar. I also
>>>> have a few out-of-tree Kirkwood u-boots that have not been submitted
>>>> for mainline yet.
>>>>
>>>> I did not see the stack size problem, or any other problem. And I'm
>>>> running the 2021.07 version.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Tony
>>>
>>> Hi Tony,
>>>
>>> thank you for your reply.
>>>
>>> I should have mentioned that this concerns only the following
>>> defconfigs:
>>>     km_kirkwood_128m16_defconfig
>>>     km_kirkwood_defconfig
>>>     km_kirkwood_pci_defconfig
>>> since only these store environment in EEPROM.
>>
>> Holger, could you perhaps take a look here? Marek is working on some env
>> related stuff that might interfere with your Kirkwood boards, e.g.
>> the initial stack location.
>>
> 
> first answer yes the boards are still maintained and alive. In production for
> km_kirkwood our latest branch in use is 2016.10, but we keep it up to date
> in case we need to upgrade.

Thanks for confirming.

> I was not able to compile the latest master due to some problems most
> likely related to my outdated host compiler, but I was compiling a version
> for this target from the 2021.04 release and gave it a try on my board.
> It seems to run without any issues. Also saving and reloading the
> environment from eeprom works fine.

Thanks for testing. You might want to download and use a recent
toolchain from kernel.org for latest master, e.g. gcc 11 [1].

Thanks,
Stefan

[1] 
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/11.1.0/x86_64-gcc-11.1.0-nolibc-arm-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz