From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: Tony Dinh <mibodhi@gmail.com>
Cc: "U-Boot Mailing List" <u-boot@lists.denx.de>,
"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
"Michael Walle" <michael@walle.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Enable CONFIG_TIMER for all Kirwood / MVEBU boards
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:12:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69b0f490-4aae-c276-6447-7390397a0268@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca7ebeb3-ff2c-b318-5079-997ad16498a2@denx.de>
Hi Tony,
On 31.08.22 07:08, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On 31.08.22 07:02, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> On 31.08.22 00:15, Tony Dinh wrote:
>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:53 AM Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This patchset enhaces the recently added Orion Timer driver to support
>>>> all other Kirkwood & 32bit MVEBU Armada platforms. Additionally, this
>>>> timer support is then enabled per default for those platforms, so that
>>>> the board config files don't need to be changed. Also necessary is
>>>> some dts hacking, so that the timer DT node is available in early
>>>> U-Boot stages.
>>>>
>>>> I've successfully tested this patchset on an Armada XP board.
>>>> Additional
>>>> test on other boards and platforms are very welcome and necessary.
>>>
>>> I've run some tests with the following 2 Kirkwood boards: Cloud
>>> Engines Pogo V4 88F6192 (with CONFIG_DM_RTC and CONFIG_RTC_EMULATION),
>>> and Marvell Sheevaplug 88F6281 (with CONFIG_DM_RTC and CONFIG_RTC_MV).
>>>
>>> It seems that it was either frozen or the timer did not expire at some
>>> subsequent sleep commands. Sometime it happened at 2nd command, some
>>> time at a later sleep command. For example,
>>>
>>> === Pogo V4 (the 1st sleep command works correctly at 10 seconds on my
>>> stopwatch)
>>>
>>> U-Boot 2022.10-rc3-00048-g66ccd87a9c-dirty (Aug 30 2022 - 13:38:24
>>> -0700)
>>> Pogoplug V4
>>>
>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
>>> Pogo_V4> sleep 10
>>> Pogo_V4> sleep 31.5
>>> <frozen here>
>>
>> Does the cmd interface support fractial numbers? Please test again with
>> 31 or other integral numbers.
>>
>>> === Sheevaplug (RTC battery is old, so the date was not updated, but
>>> the clock seems OK)
>>>
>>> U-Boot 2022.10-rc3-00048-g66ccd87a9c-dirty (Aug 30 2022 - 14:14:24
>>> -0700)
>>> Marvell-Sheevaplug
>>> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
>>> => date
>>> Date: 2000-01-01 (Saturday) Time: 0:02:55
>>> => sleep 10
>>> => date
>>> Date: 2000-01-01 (Saturday) Time: 0:03:18
>>> => sleep 10
>>> => sleep 20.1
>>> <frozen here>
>>>
>>> Please let me know what I can do (i.e. perhaps running a debug patch).
>>
>> Please see above. I assume that the fractional numbers result in very
>> long numbers internally, which result in a frozen / hanging system.
>
> I just tested fractional numbers on another board and hey, it just
> works. Learned something new. So we seem to have a problem here. Let
> me see, if I can find something.
I can't reproduce this problem on my Armada XP platform. When your
system is frozen, can you interrupt the sleep cmd via Ctrl-C? Can you
please also test without this patchset applied, if a series of sleep
commands works fine there?
Thanks,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-31 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-30 11:53 [PATCH 0/6] Enable CONFIG_TIMER for all Kirwood / MVEBU boards Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] timer: orion-timer: Add support for other Armada SoC's Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] timer: orion-timer: Add timer_get_boot_us() for BOOTSTAGE support Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 12:00 ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 12:08 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 15:56 ` Simon Glass
2022-08-31 5:57 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-31 17:44 ` Simon Glass
2022-09-01 5:33 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: mvebu: Use CONFIG_TIMER on all MVEBU & KIRKWOOD platforms Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 12:04 ` Michael Walle
2022-08-30 12:11 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: mvebu: dts: Makefile: Compile Armada 375 dtb in a separate step Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm: mvebu: dts: armada-375.dtsi: Add timer0 & timer1 Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 11:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm: mvebu: dts: mvebu-u-boot.dtsi: Add "u-boot, dm-pre-reloc" to timer DT node Stefan Roese
2022-08-30 22:15 ` [PATCH 0/6] Enable CONFIG_TIMER for all Kirwood / MVEBU boards Tony Dinh
2022-08-31 5:02 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-31 5:08 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-31 6:12 ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2022-08-31 6:45 ` Tony Dinh
2022-08-31 6:30 ` Tony Dinh
2022-08-31 7:22 ` Stefan Roese
2022-08-31 15:08 ` Tony Dinh
2022-08-31 21:53 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-01 1:38 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-01 2:27 ` Simon Glass
2022-09-01 7:39 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-01 9:27 ` Stefan Roese
2022-09-01 11:52 ` Stefan Herbrechtsmeier
2022-09-02 5:38 ` Stefan Roese
2022-09-01 14:34 ` Simon Glass
2022-09-01 23:46 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-02 2:51 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-02 3:49 ` Tony Dinh
2022-09-16 4:34 Stefan Roese
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