Hello All, in my system, based an a phyFlex i.mx6-Board, I am using the barebox bootchooser with the state framework as backend. The state framework uses dtb as storage backend. I have two productive systems which are update alternating, and a factory system for rescue. I have access to the state variables via dt-utils from the installed linux systems (with a small modification of libdt.c, regarding the phandle to the mtd-partition) Basically, everything works fine for me, but, after updating to barebox 2017.04 and dt-utils-2017.03, I have a permanently rebooting when using bootchooser. With version 2016.12, I have an issue, where I am not sure weather I am using the features correct. Mh.., maybe I have a bug in the state declaration, which was tolerated so far, but I didn't find the reason. My problems are: - with barebox 2017.04 -- permanently rebooting when starting a target by bootchooser - with barebox 2016.12: -- The bootchooser documentation explains that a bootchooser.<targetname>.boot-variable is need and must contain something the 'boot'-command understands. But when I am set the content of the 'boot'-variables to 'system1', 'system2' and 'factory', the mechanism fails and nothing will be booted. If I remove the boot-variables, the booting hangs. But, if the variables default is set emtpy (""), the booting works fine. (...but I have a bad feeling, because it is not documentation-conform) For me, it looks like the boot target selection works without any string in boot, but its name seems to beeing taken from the variable set's name. ('system1' is the variable set name, boot variable is empty, system1 is the name of the file in /env/boot/) -- with barebox 2016.12: after installing a fresh system, the very first writing to the backend (with the barebox state -s command), the systems hangs (but writing was done, I checked this by changing a variable's value before calling state -s, the new value was stored in dtb) My state declaration looks like this: state: stProjektName { magic = <0x27031977>; compatible = "barebox,state"; backend-type = "dtb"; backend = < &statepart >; backend-storage-type = "circular"; bootchooser { system1 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; boot{ reg = <0x0 0x20>; type = "string"; default = ""; /* setting 'default = "system1";' will not work ! */ }; default_attempts { reg = <0x20 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; default_priority { reg = <0x24 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x16>; }; remaining_attempts { reg = <0x28 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; priority { reg = <0x2c 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x16>; }; }; system2 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; boot{ reg = <0x40 0x20>; type = "string"; default = ""; }; default_attempts { reg = <0x60 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; default_priority { reg = <0x64 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x15>; }; remaining_attempts { reg = <0x68 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; priority { reg = <0x6c 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x15>; }; }; factory { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; boot{ reg = <0x80 0x20>; type = "string"; default = ""; }; default_attempts { reg = <0xa0 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; default_priority { reg = <0xa4 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x0A>; }; remaining_attempts { reg = <0xa8 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0xffffffff>; }; priority { reg = <0xac 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x0A>; }; }; last_chosen{ reg = <0xc0 0x4>; type = "uint32"; default = <0x01>; }; }; }; ..... /* these are my relevant mtd-partitions */ partition@0 { label = "barebox"; reg = <0x0 0x400000>; }; partition@400000 { label = "barebox-environment"; reg = <0x400000 0x0A0000>; }; statepart: partition@4a0000 { label = "barebox-states"; reg = <0x4A0000 0x060000>; }; ... This is the error output while rebooting when bootchooser is active: ------------------------------- booting 'bootchooser' unable to handle paging request at address 0xe1a0000f pc : [<4fc07538>] lr : [<e12fff1e>] sp : 4ffefab8 ip : e1a00003 fp : 47e10e5c r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 4fcad3d8 r7 : 47e10954 r6 : 47bf5a00 r5 : 47bf5a00 r4 : 4fc059fc r3 : 00000015 r2 : 00000016 r1 : 4fc059fc r0 : 47bf5a00 Flags: nzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 [<4fc07538>] (remove_free_block+0x14/0x5c) from [<4fc075b0>] (block_remove+0x30/0x38) [<4fc075b0>] (block_remove+0x30/0x38) from [<4fc075e8>] (block_merge_next+0x30/0x58) [<4fc075e8>] (block_merge_next+0x30/0x58) from [<4fc07a78>] (tlsf_free+0x7c/0x8c) [<4fc07a78>] (tlsf_free+0x7c/0x8c) from [<4fc0c05c>] (state_save+0x90/0xa4) [<4fc0c05c>] (state_save+0x90/0xa4) from [<4fc0e0c0>] (bootchooser_save+0x8c/0xe8) [<4fc0e0c0>] (bootchooser_save+0x8c/0xe8) from [<4fc0e388>] (bootchooser_get_target+0xcc/0xe0) [<4fc0e388>] (bootchooser_get_target+0xcc/0xe0) from [<4fc0e3c0>] (bootchooser_boot+0x24/0x114) [<4fc0e3c0>] (bootchooser_boot+0x24/0x114) from [<4fc11fb4>] (boot_entry+0x64/0xa0) [<4fc11fb4>] (boot_entry+0x64/0xa0) from [<4fc48258>] (do_boot+0x1dc/0x228) [<4fc48258>] (do_boot+0x1dc/0x228) from [<4fc03c98>] (execute_command+0x38/0x78) [<4fc03c98>] (execute_command+0x38/0x78) from [<4fc0a58c>] (run_list_real+0x878/0x9b8) [<4fc0a58c>] (run_list_real+0x878/0x9b8) from [<4fc0a158>] (run_list_real+0x444/0x9b8) [<4fc0a158>] (run_list_real+0x444/0x9b8) from [<4fc09b50>] (parse_stream_outer+0x144/0x208) [<4fc09b50>] (parse_stream_outer+0x144/0x208) from [<4fc09cb8>] (parse_string_outer+0xa4/0x100) [<4fc09cb8>] (parse_string_outer+0xa4/0x100) from [<4fc0a734>] (source_script+0x68/0xa0) [<4fc0a734>] (source_script+0x68/0xa0) from [<4fc0a7c0>] (do_source+0x54/0x78) [<4fc0a7c0>] (do_source+0x54/0x78) from [<4fc03c98>] (execute_command+0x38/0x78) [<4fc03c98>] (execute_command+0x38/0x78) from [<4fc0a58c>] (run_list_real+0x878/0x9b8) [<4fc0a58c>] (run_list_real+0x878/0x9b8) from [<4fc09b50>] (parse_stream_outer+0x144/0x208) [<4fc09b50>] (parse_stream_outer+0x144/0x208) from [<4fc09cb8>] (parse_string_outer+0xa4/0x100) [<4fc09cb8>] (parse_string_outer+0xa4/0x100) from [<4fc0a85c>] (run_command+0x34/0x4c) [<4fc0a85c>] (run_command+0x34/0x4c) from [<4fc00d68>] (start_barebox+0xa0/0x108) [<4fc00d68>] (start_barebox+0xa0/0x108) from [<4fc71404>] (barebox_non_pbl_start+0x188/0x1c0) [<4fc71404>] (barebox_non_pbl_start+0x188/0x1c0) from [<4fc00004>] (__bare_init_start+0x0/0x10) [<4fc734f8>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xb8) from [<4fc01118>] (panic+0x28/0x38) [<4fc01118>] (panic+0x28/0x38) from [<4fc710b8>] (do_exception+0x10/0x14) [<4fc710b8>] (do_exception+0x10/0x14) from [<4fc7113c>] (do_data_abort+0x2c/0x38) [<4fc7113c>] (do_data_abort+0x2c/0x38) from [<4fc706f4>] (do_abort_6+0x48/0x54) --------------------------- -> system restarts When starting a boot target manually (e.g. 'boot factory'), I have reading access to the state variables via barebox-state. My questions are: - what is the reason for the error when booting 'bootchooser'? Is there an error within my state definition? - when using state framework and bootchooser, do I need the <boottarget>.boot - variables? - is the barebox 2017.04 and dt-utils-2017.03 compatible? Thank you for any help! Best regards Norbert Wiedmann _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox