[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 2/4] package/rpi-firmware: bump version to 9f97081

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 30/09/2021 21:54, Peter Seiderer wrote:
> Hello Vincent, all,
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:19:03 -0500, Vincent Fazio <vfazio at xes-inc.com> wrote:
> 
>> Peter, all,
>>
>> On 9/23/21 8:58 AM, Vincent Fazio wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> On 9/21/21 3:39 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:
>>>> Hello Vincent, all,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:08:10 -0500, Vincent Fazio
>>>> <vfazio at xes-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> Peter, all,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/20/21 4:41 PM, Peter Seiderer wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Vincent,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:19:57 -0500, Vincent Fazio
>>>>>> <vfazio at xes-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the info, only did a quick read of the PR 1619, the problem
>>>>>> seems U-boot specific (not the buildroot default case) and there is
>>>>>> already a suggested U-boot fix (submitted by you)?
>>>>> Yes, sorry I was not very clear in my email yesterday (I was sending it
>>>>> on my way out the door).
>>>> No problem ;-), the hint was/is very valuable!
>>
>> This may no longer be an issue other packages have to deal with [1]
>>
> 
> Thanks for update (and your debugging efforts ;-) ), will update my
> patchset the next days...

  I was going to apply this series and then I saw this comment... Are you still 
going to update the patchset or should we apply as-is?

  Regards,
  Arnout

> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
>>>>   
>>>>> Yes, u-boot is affected, though I think edk2 may also be affected. The
>>>>> u-boot patch has not yet been reviewed and may not make it for 2021.10
>>>>>
>>>>> I just wanted to give a heads up that bumping this package could have
>>>>> consequences for some configurations.
>>>> So there are the following possibilities:
>>>>
>>>> - never update rpi-firmware to not break legacy u-boot (and maybe
>>>> edk2 and
>>>>     maybe linux-mainline and maybe ...) setups
>>> Definitely not recommending this.
>>>> - delay the rpi-firmware update until up-to-date u-boot (and edk2 and
>>>> ...)
>>>>     are available (as this bump seems to fix some other regressions e.g
>>>>     'kernel: Second attempt to fix the CPU startup failure' [1]
>>>>
>>>> - apply the rpi-firmware update now and hope that this email thread is
>>>>     found by all people affected by the u-boot (and ...) defect, but
>>>>     keeps the default buildroot/rpi users up-to-date ;-)
>>>
>>> Probably no reason to delay it if there are no default configurations
>>> that utilize the affected packages, but not sure if it deserves a
>>> mention somewhere like
>>> https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_known_issues so
>>> the issue is more clearly advertised until there are patches to fix
>>> the affected packages.
>>>
>>> I'll let the maintainers decide what to do. Again, I just wanted to
>>> make people aware.
>>>   
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/9f9708199f8809ecf16119d0716375bee7b7d8d4
>>>>   
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/commit/b5257da58c0e652633592c6fce09a7f3b100a2eb
>>
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