Hi Sinan, First thanks for replying. I do hope you will be able to help me a bit. The board is PPCE5500 used for Avaya IP500L platform.
What I noticed for hanging is that it hangs when setting mtspr IVPR, r0 in start.s although this seems correct: CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE@h Regards, Alex From: Sinan Akman <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2025 3:00 AM To: Tom Rini <[email protected]>; Manea, Alexandru (Alexandru) **CTR** <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: [External]Re: Uboot upgrade from 2016 to 2020 [External Sender] Hi Alexandru On 2025-10-15 18: 19, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10: 21: 37AM +0000, Manea, Alexandru (Alexandru) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have an issue with upgrading our sources to use the 2020. 04 uboot rather Hi Alexandru On 2025-10-15 18:19, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10:21:37AM +0000, Manea, Alexandru (Alexandru) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have an issue with upgrading our sources to use the 2020.04 uboot rather >> than the one working now on our system which is 2016. >> After adding all our board changes, I can see the SPL loading and setting >> DDR and TLB entries but once it tries to jump to uboot from mmc_boot() it >> hangs and I can't get to see anything...has anyone encountered this? Is >> there something I can do to make sure uboot is actually being jumped to or >> why the hang? I've set the offsets to go to the _start_e500: instructions >> like the old uboot. I can share the traces I have if needed. Looking forward >> to an answer. > > There might have been some issue with certain PowerPC platforms > introduced after the v2016.xx releases and fixed later than v2020.04, > and git log might help. Of course, it would be better still if you could > move to current mainline and then help with PowerPC maintenance, as we > do need more people helping there. Thanks. > Which board is this for ? -- sinan
