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<title>SPL: Rework logic around SPL_BLK_FS (and SPL_NVME)</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T21:02:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2026-03-17T01:24:31+00:00</published>
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As exposed by "make randconfig", we have an issue around SPL_BLK_FS.
This is functionally a library type symbol that should be selected when
required and select what it needs. Have SPL_BLK_FS select SPL_FS_LOADER
and then SPL_NVME will now correctly select SPL_FS_LOADER via
SPL_BLK_FS.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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As exposed by "make randconfig", we have an issue around SPL_BLK_FS.
This is functionally a library type symbol that should be selected when
required and select what it needs. Have SPL_BLK_FS select SPL_FS_LOADER
and then SPL_NVME will now correctly select SPL_FS_LOADER via
SPL_BLK_FS.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<title>treewide: Clean up DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR usage</title>
<updated>2026-02-17T19:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peng Fan</name>
<email>peng.fan@nxp.com</email>
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<published>2026-02-09T01:30:18+00:00</published>
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Remove DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR from files where gd is not used, and
drop the unnecessary inclusion of asm/global_data.h.

Headers should be included directly by the files that need them,
rather than indirectly via global_data.h.

Reviewed-by: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@foss.st.com&gt; #STMicroelectronics boards and STM32MP1 ram test driver
Tested-by: Anshul Dalal &lt;anshuld@ti.com&gt; #TI boards
Acked-by: Yao Zi &lt;me@ziyao.cc&gt; #TH1520
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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Remove DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR from files where gd is not used, and
drop the unnecessary inclusion of asm/global_data.h.

Headers should be included directly by the files that need them,
rather than indirectly via global_data.h.

Reviewed-by: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@foss.st.com&gt; #STMicroelectronics boards and STM32MP1 ram test driver
Tested-by: Anshul Dalal &lt;anshuld@ti.com&gt; #TI boards
Acked-by: Yao Zi &lt;me@ziyao.cc&gt; #TH1520
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt;
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<title>dm: core: Default to using DEVRES outside of xPL</title>
<updated>2026-01-09T15:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-12-27T22:37:11+00:00</published>
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The devm alloc functions that we have may follow the Linux kernel model
where allocations are (almost always) automatically free()'d. However,
quite often we don't enable, in full U-Boot, the tracking and free()'ing
functionality. This in turn leads to memory leaks because the driver
author expects that since the functions have the same name as in the
Linux Kernel they have the same behavior. In turn we then get
functionally correct commits such as commit 00e1fed93c8c ("firmware:
ti_sci: Fix memory leaks in devm_ti_sci_get_of_resource") that manually
add these calls. Rather than manually tracking allocations and
implementing free()s, rework things so that we follow expectations by
enabling the DEVRES functionality (outside of xPL phases).

This turns DEVRES from a prompted symbol to a symbol that must be
select'd, and we now remove our non-managed alloc/free functions from
outside of xPL builds.

Reviewed-by: Michael Trimarchi &lt;michael@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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The devm alloc functions that we have may follow the Linux kernel model
where allocations are (almost always) automatically free()'d. However,
quite often we don't enable, in full U-Boot, the tracking and free()'ing
functionality. This in turn leads to memory leaks because the driver
author expects that since the functions have the same name as in the
Linux Kernel they have the same behavior. In turn we then get
functionally correct commits such as commit 00e1fed93c8c ("firmware:
ti_sci: Fix memory leaks in devm_ti_sci_get_of_resource") that manually
add these calls. Rather than manually tracking allocations and
implementing free()s, rework things so that we follow expectations by
enabling the DEVRES functionality (outside of xPL phases).

This turns DEVRES from a prompted symbol to a symbol that must be
select'd, and we now remove our non-managed alloc/free functions from
outside of xPL builds.

Reviewed-by: Michael Trimarchi &lt;michael@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<title>block: typo 'to be write'</title>
<updated>2025-11-07T21:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinrich Schuchardt</name>
<email>heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-05T01:26:49+00:00</published>
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%s/to be write/to write/

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng &lt;bmeng.cn@gmail.com&gt;
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%s/to be write/to write/

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng &lt;bmeng.cn@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Kconfig: Make further use of testing for !COMPILE_TEST</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T22:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-25T20:51:22+00:00</published>
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We have a large number of library symbols that should not be prompted
for by the user really but rather selected by the platform (or SoC) as
needed. To start with however, make these depend on !COMPILE_TEST.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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We have a large number of library symbols that should not be prompted
for by the user really but rather selected by the platform (or SoC) as
needed. To start with however, make these depend on !COMPILE_TEST.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: Rename CONFIG_EFI to CONFIG_EFI_CLIENT</title>
<updated>2025-07-26T05:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-28T16:03:15+00:00</published>
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The generic name 'EFI' would be more useful for common EFI features. At
present it just refers to the EFI app and stub, which is confusing.

Rename it to EFI_CLIENT

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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The generic name 'EFI' would be more useful for common EFI features. At
present it just refers to the EFI app and stub, which is confusing.

Rename it to EFI_CLIENT

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: Remove blk_find_first/next</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T23:37:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Malysa</name>
<email>malysagreg@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T10:19:01+00:00</published>
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In [0], Andrew noted a code quality issue in the implementation of
blk_find_first and blk_find_next. This led to the observation that the
logic of these functions was also likely incorrect, and based on a quick
check it seemed the functions were unused outside of test code, which
did not exercise the potential failure case, so we felt they should be
removed. In [1], a test patch which illustrates the failure in sandbox
is provided for reference.

Because a more thorough check agrees that these functions are unused,
they are currently incorrect, and fixed/removable flags on block devices
prior to probe are unreliable, just remove these functions instead of
fixing them. All potential users should have used blk_first_device_err
instead anyway.

CI results at [2].

[0] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20250714-blk-uclass-v1-1-d21428c5f762@linaro.org/
[1] https://gist.github.com/gmalysa/b05e73a5c14bc18c5741a0e0e06a2992
[2] https://gitlab.com/gmalysa/lnxdsp-u-boot/-/pipelines/1931210857

Signed-off-by: Greg Malysa &lt;malysagreg@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Goodbody &lt;andrew.goodbody@linaro.org&gt;
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In [0], Andrew noted a code quality issue in the implementation of
blk_find_first and blk_find_next. This led to the observation that the
logic of these functions was also likely incorrect, and based on a quick
check it seemed the functions were unused outside of test code, which
did not exercise the potential failure case, so we felt they should be
removed. In [1], a test patch which illustrates the failure in sandbox
is provided for reference.

Because a more thorough check agrees that these functions are unused,
they are currently incorrect, and fixed/removable flags on block devices
prior to probe are unreliable, just remove these functions instead of
fixing them. All potential users should have used blk_first_device_err
instead anyway.

CI results at [2].

[0] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20250714-blk-uclass-v1-1-d21428c5f762@linaro.org/
[1] https://gist.github.com/gmalysa/b05e73a5c14bc18c5741a0e0e06a2992
[2] https://gitlab.com/gmalysa/lnxdsp-u-boot/-/pipelines/1931210857

Signed-off-by: Greg Malysa &lt;malysagreg@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Goodbody &lt;andrew.goodbody@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: sandbox: Add support for SYS_64BIT_LBA</title>
<updated>2025-07-11T17:33:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-04T21:46:12+00:00</published>
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In order to use SYS_64BIT_LBA with this driver we need for "start" to
also be of type lbaint_t and to then use the correct printf format
characters.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Goodbody &lt;andrew.goodbody@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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In order to use SYS_64BIT_LBA with this driver we need for "start" to
also be of type lbaint_t and to then use the correct printf format
characters.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Goodbody &lt;andrew.goodbody@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Kbuild: Always use $(PHASE_)</title>
<updated>2025-04-11T18:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rini</name>
<email>trini@konsulko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T22:55:23+00:00</published>
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It is confusing to have both "$(PHASE_)" and "$(XPL_)" be used in our
Makefiles as part of the macros to determine when to do something in our
Makefiles based on what phase of the build we are in. For consistency,
bring this down to a single macro and use "$(PHASE_)" only.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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It is confusing to have both "$(PHASE_)" and "$(XPL_)" be used in our
Makefiles as part of the macros to determine when to do something in our
Makefiles based on what phase of the build we are in. For consistency,
bring this down to a single macro and use "$(PHASE_)" only.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini &lt;trini@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blkmap: pass information on ISO image to the OS</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T11:28:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sughosh Ganu</name>
<email>sughosh.ganu@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-17T08:34:02+00:00</published>
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The EFI HTTP boot puts the ISO installer image at some location in
memory. Information about this image has to be passed on to the OS
kernel, which is done by adding a persistent memory(pmem) node to the
devicetree(DT) that is passed to the OS. The OS kernel then gets
information about the presence of this ISO image and proceeds with the
installation.

In U-Boot, this ISO image gets mounted as a memory mapped blkmap
device slice, with the 'preserve' attribute. Add a helper function
which iterates through all such slices, and invokes a callback. The
callback adds the pmem node to the DT and removes the corresponding
memory region from the EFI memory map. Invoke this helper function as
part of the DT fixup which happens before booting the OS.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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The EFI HTTP boot puts the ISO installer image at some location in
memory. Information about this image has to be passed on to the OS
kernel, which is done by adding a persistent memory(pmem) node to the
devicetree(DT) that is passed to the OS. The OS kernel then gets
information about the presence of this ISO image and proceeds with the
installation.

In U-Boot, this ISO image gets mounted as a memory mapped blkmap
device slice, with the 'preserve' attribute. Add a helper function
which iterates through all such slices, and invokes a callback. The
callback adds the pmem node to the DT and removes the corresponding
memory region from the EFI memory map. Invoke this helper function as
part of the DT fixup which happens before booting the OS.

Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu &lt;sughosh.ganu@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz &lt;tobias@waldekranz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas &lt;ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org&gt;
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