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

Vincent Fazio vfazio at xes-inc.com
Thu Sep 23 13:58:12 UTC 2021


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!
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
-- 
Vincent Fazio
Embedded Software Engineer - ATS
Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc
http://www.xes-inc.com



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