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Enable to boot from emmc on rockpro64
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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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Hi Vagrant,
I just had a break-through with this! See inline.
Vagrant Cascadian writes:
> On 2021-07-13, Pierre Langlois wrote:
>> I'm afraid since commit 3a851d45576e046d696fcf35b34d57b2cd28ea49 [0]
>> I've not been able to boot from eMMC on the rockpro64 board, it freezes
>> before loading the kernel. Re-introducing the work-around fixed the
>> issue for me (see patch attached).
>>
>> Did we mean to remove the work-around? I'm wondering if there's
>> something I'm missing, or if I should instead boot from a USB device.
>
> I definitely tested this on pinebook-pro and probably just assumed it
> would also fix the issue on rockpro64...
>
>
>> I've also updated u-boot to 2021.07 but I'm seeing the same boot issue
>> so it doesn't appear to be fixed upstream :-/
>>
>> Anybody know of any other work around? If not, are you happy with the
>> patch attached?
>
> I'll try to test on rockpro64 and see if I can confirm the issue and
> your fix...
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
>> From f3c647bb447706f465a3fb4b8d6e09cd089dbed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois <at> gmx.com>
>> Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 16:19:23 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: u-boot-rockpro64-rk3399: Disable USB boot.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm (u-boot-rockpro64-rk3399)[arguments]: Add
>> 'patch-rockpro64-config phase.
>> ---
>> gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm | 11 ++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm b/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
>> index 742992a119..75705a27c1 100644
>> --- a/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
>> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>> ;;; Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2020 Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling <at> bjoernhoefling.de>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>
>> -;;; Copyright © 2020 Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois <at> gmx.com>
>> +;;; Copyright © 2020, 2021 Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois <at> gmx.com>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2021 Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
>> ;;; Copyright © 2021 Brice Waegeneire <brice <at> waegenei.re>
>> ;;;
>> @@ -931,11 +931,16 @@ to Novena upstream, does not load u-boot.img from the first partition.")
>> (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments base)
>> ((#:phases phases)
>> `(modify-phases ,phases
>> + (add-after 'unpack 'patch-rockpro64-config
>> + ;; Fix regression in 2020.10 causing freezes on boot with USB boot enabled.
>> + ;; See https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/uboot-rockpro64/-/issues/4
>> + (lambda _
>> + (substitute* "configs/rockpro64-rk3399_defconfig"
>> + (("CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT=y") "CONFIG_USE_PREBOOT=n"))))
>> (add-after 'patch-rockpro64-config 'set-environment
Wait a minute, there was a bug here on master! The 'set-environment
phase runs after 'patch-rockpro64-config phase, it should be 'unpack.
This was the reason it was hanging on boot for me, it wasn't to do with
PREBOOT, ah-ha! :-D
That's nice, I was really confused about this issue, thinking I maybe
had a faulty board.
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>> (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
>> (setenv "BL31" (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "firmware")
>> - "/bl31.elf"))
>> - #t))
>> + "/bl31.elf"))))
>> ;; Phases do not succeed on the bl31 ELF.
>> (delete 'strip)
>> (delete 'validate-runpath)))))
>> --
>> 2.32.0
>>
>>
>>
>> [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-commits/2021-05/msg00085.html
Thanks,
Pierre
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