Hi, Commit ffb0294 from 12 November 2023 that simplifies early PMIC setup conditions causes issues on Cubieboard 4 and Merrii A80 Optimus with Allwinner A80 SoC (sun9i). The commit was introduced with U-Boot 2024.01 (rc3) and remains as of today. Because of it both of these boards hang at:
Starting kernel ... Older U-Boot versions without this commit work fine. As a temporary solution I reverted commit ffb0294 and this way the boards boot successfully. I tested this work around on Merrii A80 Optimus with several U-Boot versions, including with U-Boot 2024.10. Lazar, a friend who owns Cubieboard 4, also tested and confirmed his board boots with U-Boot 2024.10 if this commit has been reverted. How to fix this? Is there a known configuration that can be added to Merrii_A80_Optimus_defconfig and Cubieboard4_defconfig to avoid hanging with the existing source code from commit ffb0294 ? Best regards, Leon
