-----Original Message----- From: Frank Kunz Sent: 20 October 2021 23:04 To: arm@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: DE0-Nano-SoC boot fails

Am 19.10.21 um 19:00 schrieb Christian Gross:

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Hi,

I wrote already in April 2020 about this to the mailing list. However, the situation did not improve since then.

The one and only appliance booting on the DE0-Nano-SoC is Leap 15.0, all newer fail.

openSUSE-Leap15.0-ARM-JeOS-socfpgade0nanosoc.armv7l-2018.07.02- Buildlp150.1.1 boots

openSUSE-Leap-15.1-ARM-JeOS-socfpgade0nanosoc.armv7l end up at u ends up showing the u-boot prompt: "=>"

openSUSE-Leap-15.2-ARM-JeOS-socfpgade0nanosoc.armv7l-2020.02.26-Build1 .63

and all newer do not even get to u-boot.

Does nobody beside me use the DE0-Nano-SoC or DE10-Nano?

Thanks for the test with Leap 15.0 that gave a good starting point to bisect the problem. It is located in u-boot and I found this patch that causes the problem:

commit f369e1564cf4f81654b8a806fdc325b62b6627dc Author: Dinh Nguyen Date: Thu Apr 12 09:03:37 2018 -0500

configs: socfpga: disable EFI and ISO partition types

None of the SoCFPGA platforms will support EFI/ISO partition types that is needed for DISTRO_DEFAULTS. SoCFPGA bootroom will only support 0xa2 partition type.

This is needed to help limit the size of the SPL to within the 64k limit that is required for SoCFPGA.

Signed-off-by: Dinh Nguyen

the assumption in the commit message that nobody needs to use EFI for socfpga is wrong, opensuse uses it.

For a test I enabled EFI partiton support for u-boot (not SPL) and with that it is possible to boot a Leap 15.1. Others I have not tested yet.

So I think we need to add a patch to the opensuse u-boot that enables EFI partition support for the de0-nano-soc board.

Thanks for bisecting this! What update is needed? Is it: diff --git a/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc_defconfig b/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc_defconfig index 4539d08dea..1c940ec6de 100644 --- a/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc_defconfig +++ b/configs/socfpga_de0_nano_soc_defconfig @@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ CONFIG_CMD_EXT4_WRITE=y CONFIG_MTDIDS_DEFAULT="nor0=ff705000.spi.0" CONFIG_MTDPARTS_DEFAULT="mtdparts=ff705000.spi.0:1m(u-boot),256k(env1),256k(env2),14848k(boot),16m(rootfs),-@1536k(UBI)" CONFIG_CMD_UBI=y -# CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION is not set -# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC=y CONFIG_SYS_RELOC_GD_ENV_ADDR=y CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE=y ? Cheers, Guillaume

Br, Frank

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