Re: boards/enclustra-sa2: add new board (HELP NEEDED)

[David Picard <david.picard@clermont.in2p3.fr>]

Last output with CONFIG_DEBUG_INITCALLS enabled: 
https://paste.debian.net/1385224/, line 24 : '%' is at top of function, 
'C' is before setup_c() and 'B' is before pbl_barebox_break()

David

Le 04/07/2025 à 17:09, Ahmad Fatoum a écrit :
> Hello David,
>
> On 7/3/25 16:21, David Picard wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to port the Enclustra SA2 module. I started off the Terasic
>> DE0 nano Soc board, that I could run with success previously. They both
>> have a Cyclone V SoC FPGA. I added some pr_debug().
>>
>> My code is here, in the board-enclustra-sa2 branch:
>> https://github.com/dpproto/barebox
>>
>> It hangs when the execution jumps to the uncompressed Barebox image, and
>> I'm really stuck.
> It's very interesting to know that this is actually the second
> decompression. The first stage (barebox-socfpga-sa2-xload.img) succeeded
> up to 'starting bootloader...' and then the output you have after that
> is the prebootloader of the second stage (barebox-socfpga-sa2.img).
>
> The decompressed barebox proper of the first stage already ran from
> within SDRAM, so your SDRAM setup might not be to blame.
>
> For a more complete picture, could you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PBL and
> CONFIG_DEBUG_LL also for the first stage and include them in your next mail?
>
>> Enclustra provides a U-Boot configuration, with handoff files. I tried
>> to compare them with those I copied from a sample Quartus project they
>> provide too. I couldn't notice striking differences, although it's not
>> easy to compare because they used an older version of Quartus.
>>
>> - The addresses and sizes in the log output below don't seem to exceed
>> SDRAM boundaries, do they?
>> - Any hint on anything to check?
> I expanded a bit on Sascha's suggestions in the troubleshooting guide
> I just sent out. I hope this will be helpful to you in pinpointing your
> issue. Looking at the branch you pushed to your repository, I notice
> the following in no particular order:
>
>    -  you are missing a /chosen/stdout-path. You probably want to set it
>       to silence the 'No consoles were activated' warning and get
>       early output, even without CONFIG_DEBUG_LL
>
>    - As Sascha mentioned, calling pr_debug before relocation can
>      introduce bugs of its own, so stick to putc_ll('@') if unsure
>
>    - It would be interesting to see if CONFIG_PBL_VERIFY_PIGGY succeeds
>      and if an early putc_ll() in start.c as suggested by Sascha
>      would give any output.
>
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
>
>> David
>>
>> =============================
>> barebox 2025.06.1 #1 Thu Jul 3 10:53:43 CEST 2025
>>
>>
>> Board: SoCFPGA
>> No consoles were activated. Activating all consoles as fallback!
>> dw_mmc dw_mmc0: registered as mci0
>> mci0: detected SD card version 2.0
>> mci0: registered disk0
>> starting bootloader...
>> arch/arm/boards/enclustra-sa2/lowlevel.c: __start_socfpga_sa2() >>> start
>> include/mach/socfpga/lowlevel.h: start_socfpga_c5_common() >>> start
>> include/mach/socfpga/lowlevel.h: start_socfpga_c5_common() >>>
>> arm_cpu_lowlevel_init() OK
>> include/mach/socfpga/lowlevel.h: start_socfpga_c5_common() >>>
>> fdt_blob=0x00002320 fdt=0x1ff87ae8 size=0x40000000
>> include/mach/socfpga/lowlevel.h: start_socfpga_c5_common() >>> calling
>> barebox_arm_entry()...
>> uncompress.c: memory at 0x00000000, size 0x40000000
>> mmu: enabling MMU, ttb @ 0x3ffe0000
>> endmem                = 0x40000000
>> arm_mem_scratch       = 0x3fff8000+0x00008000
>> arm_mem_stack         = 0x3fff0000+0x00008000
>> arm_mem_ttb           = 0x3ffe0000+0x00010000
>> arm_mem_barebox_image = 0x3fe00000+0x00200000
>> arm_mem_early_malloc  = 0x3fde0000+0x00020000
>> membase               = 0x00000000+0x40000000
>> uncompress.c: uncompressing barebox binary at 0x1ff8c800 (size
>> 0x00056b67) to 0x3fe00000 (uncompressed size: 0x000778b0)
>> uncompress.c: jumping to uncompressed image at 0x3fe00001
>> uncompress.c: calling armv7_switch_to_hyp()...
>> uncompress.c: armv7_switch_to_hyp() OK. Now jumping...
>> =============================
>>
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