Hi Andrey, On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's definitely the bootloader, or more specifically whether or not it > initialized/used USB before booting the kernel. Some interesting > highlights: > > - On your "good" 4.17.2 based image, if you interrupt U-Boot, do "usb > start" (optionally "usb stop") and then "boot", you'll get the hang > that I was trying to fix with my patch. > > - Things are exact opposite with 4.18-rc1 and doing the above would > _prevent_ the hang and the image would boot fine. > > - Disabling USB in Barebox based boot "stack" gets it to behave the > same way as U-boot from your image (hanging when booting 4.18-rc1) > > Digging more into code it seems that the reason for 4.18-rc1's > behavior is the fact that it's missing a call hw_phymode_configure() > after usb_phy_init() and, AFAICT, the only reason it is not happening > is because default image is being built without > CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_ULPI and CONFIG_USB_ULPI_BUS. Enabling those two > options on 4.18-rc1, seem to fix the problem on both your U-Boot based > image and my "special" Barebox setup. > > So AFAICT, this patch still fixes a valid issue (my use-case was net > booting via USB-Ethernet dongle), but an additional patch enabling > those two configuration options might be needed. Thoughts? Yes, I can confirm that your suggested change avoids the kernel hang: diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig index d14de86..2da678c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig +++ b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA=y CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_UDC=y CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_HOST=y +CONFIG_USB_CHIPIDEA_ULPI=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO=m @@ -336,6 +337,7 @@ CONFIG_USB_GADGETFS=m CONFIG_USB_FUNCTIONFS=m CONFIG_USB_MASS_STORAGE=m CONFIG_USB_G_SERIAL=m +CONFIG_USB_ULPI_BUS=y CONFIG_MMC=y CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI=y CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_PLTFM=y > Also, I don't have any i.MX53 HW, so I wasn't able to test the effects > of enabling those two options there. The imx53 board I have access to does not use ULPI. Maybe Sebastian on Cc may help testing this on his imx53 board as he is the author of: be9cae2479f48 ("usb: chipidea: imx: Fix ULPI on imx53") I am wondering if we need to force some kind of USB reset to put the USB controller into a known state independently of what the bootloader has done previously. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html