Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 2/4] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 9f97081

[Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>]

Peter, all,

On 9/23/21 8:58 AM, Vincent Fazio wrote:
> All,
>
> On 9/21/21 3:39 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:
>> Hello Vincent, all,
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:08:10 -0500, Vincent Fazio 
>> <vfazio@xes-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter, all,
>>>
>>> On 9/20/21 4:41 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:
>>>> Hello Vincent,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:19:57 -0500, Vincent Fazio 
>>>> <vfazio@xes-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info, only did a quick read of the PR 1619, the problem
>>>> seems U-boot specific (not the buildroot default case) and there is
>>>> already a suggested U-boot fix (submitted by you)?
>>> Yes, sorry I was not very clear in my email yesterday (I was sending it
>>> on my way out the door).
>> No problem ;-), the hint was/is very valuable!
This may no longer be an issue other packages have to deal with [1]
>>
>>> Yes, u-boot is affected, though I think edk2 may also be affected. The
>>> u-boot patch has not yet been reviewed and may not make it for 2021.10
>>>
>>> I just wanted to give a heads up that bumping this package could have
>>> consequences for some configurations.
>> So there are the following possibilities:
>>
>> - never update rpi-firmware to not break legacy u-boot (and maybe 
>> edk2 and
>>    maybe linux-mainline and maybe ...) setups
> Definitely not recommending this.
>> - delay the rpi-firmware update until up-to-date u-boot (and edk2 and 
>> ...)
>>    are available (as this bump seems to fix some other regressions e.g
>>    'kernel: Second attempt to fix the CPU startup failure' [1]
>>
>> - apply the rpi-firmware update now and hope that this email thread is
>>    found by all people affected by the u-boot (and ...) defect, but
>>    keeps the default buildroot/rpi users up-to-date ;-)
>
> Probably no reason to delay it if there are no default configurations 
> that utilize the affected packages, but not sure if it deserves a 
> mention somewhere like 
> https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_known_issues so 
> the issue is more clearly advertised until there are patches to fix 
> the affected packages.
>
> I'll let the maintainers decide what to do. Again, I just wanted to 
> make people aware.
>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/9f9708199f8809ecf16119d0716375bee7b7d8d4
>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
[1] 
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/b5257da58c0e652633592c6fce09a7f3b100a2eb

-- 
Vincent Fazio
Embedded Software Engineer - ATS
Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc
http://www.xes-inc.com

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