Re: u-boot debug, was: Re: U-boot on RPI3, sees disk but won't boot it

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:43:42 UTC
On 2022-Oct-2, at 13:18, Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:

> . . .
> 
>> Am 02.10.2022 um 21:48 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>> 
>> (RaspiOS and Ubuntu do not use U-Boot last I knew. So
>> they do not make for good comparisons for the purpose
>> as far as I know.)
> 
> RaspiOS doesn’t , Ubuntu(and others) use u-boot since years …
> while possible Ubuntu(or others) have own u-boot patches ,
> from guessing it seems more probable that they also will sometimes hang after (re)boot.

Sufficiently modern Ubuntu does not use U-Boot by
default, at least for server builds.

ubuntu-22.04.1-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img
has:

# more /mnt/config.txt 
[all]
kernel=vmlinuz
. . .

where vmlinux is seen as:

/mnt/vmlinuz

No use of U-Boot: direct booting of vmlinux via
the RPi* firmware's ability to do so.

They do provide uboot_rpi_*.bin 's for folks that
want to change to use such:

/mnt/uboot_rpi_3.bin
/mnt/uboot_rpi_4.bin
/mnt/uboot_rpi_arm64.bin

But the supplied config.txt makes no mention of any
uboot*.bin and things have to be changed to cause
a uboot_rpi_*.bin to be involved.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com