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

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 08:33:33PM +0200, Klaus K??chemann wrote:
> 
> > Am 27.09.2022 um 19:58 schrieb Klaus K??chemann <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.
> 
I tried running make clean, make extract, adding #define DEBUG and #define LOG_DEBUG
at line 44 in common/usb.c, then running make from /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-arm64.
The resulting u-boot.bin is still 582712 bytes, just as before. AIUI one effect of turning
on debug is a larger executable, so it appears I'm doing something wrong or those 
changes alone aren't sufficient. 


> just a guess : 
> electrical problem(of the Pi itself)  which could perhaps be fixed by  manipulating the scan delay time .
> 
Power issues don't seem prevalanet. Voltage at both the Pi3 and hub USB
ports is never below 5.0 volts, usually around 5.15, with 5.0 at the
time of power-on and probably POST.

I also replaced the powered hub with a second, nominally
identical, unit. That helped, shutdown -r worked 8 tries
out of 11. This with
U-Boot 2020.10 (Mar 04 2021 - 04:32:31 +0000)

Switching to a recent u-boot-rpi-arm64 seemed to
make matters much worse. Went back to the older
version of u-boot.

It's tempting to say the switch is the problem, but the
disk holding -current from which I copied the old u-boot 
booted reliably using the Pi3 and its previous hub and 
power supply.

That's where my question of supporting files came from.
Right now the stable-13 disk has an added
FORCE_TURBO=1 in config.txt, which seems to help. The
rest of the files in /booto/msdos are as provided in
the original image file. Do any of them, beyond 
config.txt, have an effect on u-boot's behavior?

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska
 




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