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: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:06:50 UTC
On 2022-Sep-27, at 12:48, Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 27.09.2022 um 21:20 schrieb Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>:
>> 
>> On 2022-Sep-27, at 11:33, Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> Am 27.09.2022 um 19:58 schrieb Klaus Küchemann <maciphone2@googlemail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 27.09.2022 um 18:03 schrieb bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did look at common/usb.c but it's far from obvious how one
>>>>> can turn on the logging feature so as to report more errors
>>>>> to the console.
>>>> 
>>>> you can add the following to common/usb.c (e.g. insert in line 44):
>>>> 
>>>> #define DEBUG
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> that should then print out all debug functions inside the usb.c file to the console 
>>>> after recompilation of u-boot.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Klaus
>>> 
>>> I saw there is  /*#include <log.h>*/ available in usb.c 
>>> so you could also try to add :
>>> 
>>> #define LOG_DEBUG
>>> 
>>> to the common/usb.c file which should also then enable the debug functions
>>> which then would be output in logging style.
>>> 
>>> You will need the debug output to to narrow down the issue.
>>> 
>>> just a guess : 
>>> electrical problem(of the Pi itself)  which could perhaps be fixed by  manipulating the scan delay time .
>> 
>> Looks to me like:
>> 
>> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/usb_hub.c
>> 
>> might be relevant, not just:
>> 
>> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/usb.c
>> 
>> 
>> For example, usb_hub.c is where usb_pgood_delay is involved.
>> (My patch to enable my boot media assigns that, not that
>> such helped Bob.)
>> 
>> But I've not been able to uniquely identify all the specific
>> identifiers for all the (relevant) "usb boot scan delays",
>> although I'd expect that pgood_delay (and its usb_pgood_delay)
>> would be considered an example.
>> 
>> ===
>> Mark Millard
>> marklmi at yahoo.com
> 
> good idea,
> I would then suggest to enable debug also in common/usb_hub.c
> by adding #define DEBUG or #define LOG_DEBUG ..
> 
> for the usb.c I’d expect something from the mdelay function as an usb scan timer..
> so let’s see what debug logs  usb.c & usb_hub.c  will spit out ..

I'm not sure it would be relevant, there is also:

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/usb_storage.c

But , unlike usb_pgood_delay that I recognized and it
being in usb_hub.c , I've no specific identification
of something relevant from usb_storage.c .

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com