>> It seems we've regressed with the Orange Pi PC for 2016.07 but I'm >> wondering with the PCSI bits whether the process has changed and I've >> missed the details of what's needed to flash u-boot. > > > I just tried on my own Orange Pi PC with current master (which will > become the final 2016.07 real soon now) and everything works fine. > > wrt the flash process, nothing has changed simply dd > u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin to an offset of 8192 bytes on the sdcard. > >> With rc3 I see the follwing: >> >> U-Boot SPL 2016.07-rc3 (Jul 07 2016 - 10:36:40) >> DRAM: u MiB >> Could not determine boot source > > > Sometimes this happens if writing to the sdcard went wrong somehow, > sometimes the data can be unreadable or worse not readable reliably > for the board even though the PC reports everything as ok > (often when this happens the write takes longer then usual, indicating > the PC has to retry it under the hood). > > Often just repeating the dd fixes this (sad but true), I'm not aware > of any bug in rc3 wich would trigger this, and looking at the > commits in master since rc3 nothing stands out. > > To double check I've just taken u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin for the > opi pc from: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=778437 > > And then did: > > sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 seek=8 > > And after that tested it, and it works fine for me, so it seems > that you indeed got unlucky by hitting a bad / weak flash sector > on the sdcard.
That's what I used and I used the same card for both 2016.07rc3 and 2016.05 with the later working, I tried the 07.rc3 a couple of times with the same errors, I'll dig out another card and give it a go. Peter >> resetting ... >> >> But with 2016.05 GA I get: >> >> U-Boot SPL 2016.05 (May 30 2016 - 20:15:17) >> DRAM: 1024 MiB >> Trying to boot from MMC1 >> >> >> U-Boot 2016.05 (May 30 2016 - 20:15:17 +0000) Allwinner Technology >> >> CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) >> Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC >> I2C: ready >> DRAM: 1 GiB >> MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 >> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment >> >> In: serial >> Out: serial >> Err: serial >> Net: No ethernet found. >> starting USB... >> USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 >> USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 >> USB2: USB EHCI 1.00 >> USB3: USB OHCI 1.0 >> USB4: USB EHCI 1.00 >> USB5: USB OHCI 1.0 >> scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found >> scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found >> scanning bus 4 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found >> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 >> => >> _______________________________________________ >> U-Boot mailing list >> U-Boot@lists.denx.de >> http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot >> > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
