Hi Paul,
On 2024/11/7 20:27, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
Hi,
Le Thu 07 Nov 24, 12:04, Quentin Schulz a écrit :
On 11/7/24 8:14 AM, Kever Yang wrote:
Yes, this movement is reasonable and needed for this workaround,
although still not
understand why puma board need this.
Me neither, this predates me joining the company, c.f.:
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/ae0d33a7291a164a11ae034bcf4f71226b2bef48
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/5f104178bf713615dc404fdfcf0fb53d89c66a07
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/commit/07586ee4322abca01db52624b925e5218538f259
What I can tell you is that it seems this is required as Paul (in Cc) is
trying to add support for it for the Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC[1] and the
ROCKPro64[2], so it seems it's useful for **some** purpose.
The initial issue I was seeing was that one of the MMC controllers showed some
errors and failed to read data after reboot, while it always worked on cold
boot. With this feature enabled, it worked reliably after reboot.
I didn't investigate exactly which component (maybe clocks, maybe regulators)
caused the problem, but it clearly wasn't correctly reset.
Are you able to check, how is the 'reboot' happen, does it use the
system_reset API from the ATF?
Because there are some operations for clock and PD before trigger the
global reset in ATF driver
and the code is very stable and used for millions of devices.
Thanks,
- Kever
Cheers,
Paul
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20240926183111.1324284-1-pa...@sys-base.io/
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20240926183111.1324284-2-pa...@sys-base.io/
- faster boot time as we don't need to reach SPL to be able to reset the
system on a condition we know is already met in TPL,
- have less code to be impacted by the issue this system reset works
around (that is, "unclean" SoC registers after a reboot),
- less confusion around the reason for restarting. Indeed when done from
SPL, the following log can be observed:
"""
U-Boot TPL 2025.01-rc1-00165-gd79216ca9878-dirty (Nov 05 2024 - 15:31:45)
Channel 0: DDR3, 666MHz
BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB
Channel 1: DDR3, 666MHz
BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB
256B stride
Trying to boot from BOOTROM
Returning to boot ROM...
U-Boot SPL 2025.01-rc1-00165-gd79216ca9878-dirty (Nov 05 2024 -
15:31:45 +0100)
Trying to boot from MMC2
U-Boot TPL 2025.01-rc1-00165-gd79216ca9878-dirty (Nov 05 2024 - 15:31:45)
"""
So with this patch set, we can see the TPL banner twice ?
PS: We are able to merge to master instead of next before next branch is
open, because we still have
enough time to debug before next release.
My understanding is that once -rc1 is out, we should only do bug fixing in
master. BUT at the same time, next branch isn't actually open until -rc2.
Up to you! It's not really urgent, Puma was migrated to TPL only in v2023.01
and we've lived without sysreset-gpio in TPL since then :)
Cheers,
Quentin
