summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/develop
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2025-04-08Merge patch series "Improve pytest runtime"Tom Rini
Tom Rini <[email protected]> says: One thing that Simon Glass has noted is that our pytest run time keeps getting longer. Looking at: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/pipelines/25011/test_report?job_name=sandbox%20test.py%3A%20%5Bfast%20amd64%5D we can see that some of the longest running tests are a little puzzling. It turns out that we have two ways of making filesystem images without requiring root access and one of them is significantly slower than the other. This series changes us from using virt-make-fs to only using the mk_fs helper that currently resides in test_ut.py which uses standard userspace tools. The final result can be seen at: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/pipelines/25015/test_report?job_name=sandbox%20test.py%3A%20%5Bfast%20amd64%5D and the tests changed here now run much quicker. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2025-04-08doc/develop/py_testing.rst: Update section on filesystem imagesTom Rini
Now that we have no users of "virt-make-fs" nor users of "sudo" for creating disk images update the documentation. We remove packages that are no longer required (and related text) as well as be firm in our wording around not using "sudo". Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-04-08doc: release_cycle: fix next release versionDario Binacchi
The release commit for version v2025.04 forgot to update the next version (i. e. v2025.07) in the section where information about the merge window is provided. Fixes: 34820924edbc ("Prepare v2025.04") Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-04-08Merge branch 'next'Tom Rini
Note that this undoes the changes of commit cf6d4535cc4c ("x86: emulation: Disable bloblist for now") as that was intended only for the release due to time.
2025-04-07Prepare v2025.04v2025.04Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-04-03boot: Consider non-bootable partitionsSimon Glass
Any 'bootable' flag in a DOS partition causes boostd to only scan bootable partitions for that media. This can mean that extlinux.conf files on the root disk are missed. Put this logic behind a flag and update the documentation. For now, the flag is enabled, to preserve the existing behaviour of bootstd which is to ignore non-bootable partitions so long as there is at least one bootable partition on the disk. Future work may provide a command (or some other mechanism) to control this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2025-03-30Merge patch series "Clarify DM_FLAG_PROBE_AFTER_BIND behaviour"Tom Rini
Caleb Connolly <[email protected]> says: In Simon's series reworking autoprobe, a discussion came up about DM_FLAG_PROBE_AFTER_BIND, specifically that it wasn't very clear where this flag should be used. This series implements my suggestions made there to clarify the use of this flag, and fixup the two driver which erroneously apply it to their driver struct (this does nothing). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2025-03-30dm: clarify DM_FLAG_PROBE_AFTER_BIND behaviourCaleb Connolly
The DM_FLAG_PROBE_AFTER_BIND flag only makes sense on a per-device basis, however recently added documentation as well as some confused drivers imply that it might be added to a driver definition, this does nothing. Clarify the new documentation and expand on the comment by the definition to point people in the right direction. Signed-off-by: Caleb Connolly <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
2025-03-24Merge tag 'v2025.04-rc5' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2025.04-rc5
2025-03-24Prepare v2025.05-rc5v2025.04-rc5Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-03-17net: miiphybb: Convert documentation to rstMarek Vasut
Convert the current miiphybb documentation to rst. Rename the README.bitbangMII to bitbangmii.rst in the process. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2025-03-15test/py: Drop u_boot_ prefix on test filesSimon Glass
We know this is U-Boot so the prefix serves no purpose other than to make things longer and harder to read. Drop it and rename the files. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <[email protected]> # test_android / test_dfu
2025-03-15test/py: Shorten u_boot_consoleSimon Glass
This fixture name is quite long and results in lots of verbose code. We know this is U-Boot so the 'u_boot_' part is not necessary. But it is also a bit of a misnomer, since it provides access to all the information available to tests. It is not just the console. It would be too confusing to use con as it would be confused with config and it is probably too short. So shorten it to 'ubman'. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAFLszTgPa4aT_J9h9pqeTtLCVn4x2JvLWRcWRD8NaN3uoSAtyA@mail.gmail.com/
2025-03-10Merge tag 'v2025.04-rc4' into nextTom Rini
This uses Heinrich's merge of lib/efi_loader/efi_net.c which results in no changes.
2025-03-10Prepare v2025.04-rc4v2025.04-rc4Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-02-24Merge tag 'v2025.04-rc3' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2025.04-rc3
2025-02-24Prepare v2025.04-rc3v2025.04-rc3Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-02-11test: Update documentationSimon Glass
Update documentation for how to write tests and the 'ut' command. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2025-02-10Prepare v2025.04-rc2v2025.04-rc2Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-01-30test/py: Add a report show test durationsSimon Glass
Execution time varies widely with the existing tests. Provides a way to produce a summary of the time taken for each test, along with a histogram. This is enabled with the --timing flag. Enable it for sandbox in CI. Example: Duration : Number of tests ======== : ======================================== <1ms : 1 <8ms : 1 <20ms : # 20 <30ms : ######## 127 <50ms : ######################################## 582 <75ms : ####### 102 <100ms : ## 39 <200ms : ##### 86 <300ms : # 29 <500ms : ## 42 <750ms : # 16 <1.0s : # 15 <2.0s : # 23 <3.0s : 13 <5.0s : 9 <7.5s : 1 <10.0s : 6 <20.0s : 12 Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-01-27Prepare v2025.04-rc1v2025.04-rc1Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-01-15Merge patch series "bootstd: Support recording images"Tom Rini
Simon Glass <[email protected]> says: This series provides a way to keep track of the images used in bootstd, including the type of each image. At present this is sort-of handled by struct bootflow but in quite an ad-hoc way. The structure has become quite large and is hard to query. Future work will be able to reduce its size. Ultimately the 'bootflow info' command may change to also show images as a list, but that is left for later, as this series is already fairly long. So for now, just introduce the concept and adjust bootstd to use it, with a simple command to list the images. This series includes various alist enhancements, to make use of this new data structure a little easier. [trini: Drop patch 18 and 19 for now due to size considerations] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2025-01-15bootstd: Add a simple command to list imagesSimon Glass
Add a new 'bootstd images' command, which lists the images which have been loaded. Update some existing tests to use it. Provide some documentation about images in general and this command in particular. Use a more realistic kernel command-line to make the test easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2025-01-14common: Move autoprobe out to board initSimon Glass
Rather than doing autoprobe within the driver model code, move it out to the board-init code. This makes it clear that it is a separate step from binding devices. For now this is always done twice, before and after relocation, but we should discuss whether it might be possible to drop the post-relocation probe. For boards with SPL, the autoprobe is still done there as well. Note that with this change, autoprobe happens after the EVT_DM_POST_INIT_R/F events are sent, rather than before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2025-01-08Merge tag 'efi-next-20250105' of ↵Tom Rini
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-efi Pull request efi-next-20250105 Documentation: * doc: develop: Fix typos and wording in binman/binman.rst * doc: develop: Fix typos and wording in gdb.rst * doc: sandbox: Fix the "sb" command name * doc/develop/distro.rst: Better document upstream definition of extlinux.conf UEFI: * efi_loader: avoid writing message in Exit() boot service * efi_loader: update EFI specification version * cmd: efidebug: update output of memory attributes * efi_loader: Don't warn if the TCG2 FinalEvents table is not installed * cmd: bootmenu: add parameter -e for UEFI boot options * efi_loader: Update startimage_exit self-test to check error * efi: Correct ECPT table GUID Others: Building the API demo application for riscv64 is supported. * API: unify platform_sys_info() implementations * examples: implement _start and syscall for RISC-V * examples: use architecture specific memset() on RISC-V * examples: use QEMU compatible LOAD_ADDR on RISC-V * test: fix test_extension.py * configs: sandbox_deconfig: remove CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION * CI: xilinx_versal_virt: disable USB_DWC3 * net: eth_bootdev_hunt() should not run DHCP
2025-01-08Merge branch 'next'Tom Rini
2025-01-06Prepare v2025.01v2025.01Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-01-05doc/develop/distro.rst: Better document upstream definition of extlinux.confTom Rini
First, the "Boot Loader Specification" link has moved to a new location, so link to that directly. Second, that link does not document as much of the extlinux.conf format as I recall the old version doing at least. However, the Syslinux Project wiki is the current location of the documentation linked to in doc/README.pxe and also has a reference for SYSLINUX. Link to both of these. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2025-01-05doc: develop: Fix typos and wording in gdb.rstLothar Rubusch
Fix some typos and duplicate words in gdb.rst. Signed-off-by: Lothar Rubusch <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alexander Dahl <[email protected]>
2025-01-01Merge patch series "Add 'trace wipe'"Tom Rini
Jerome Forissier <[email protected]> says: This short series adds the 'trace wipe' command which clears the trace buffer, allowing to re-start a capture from scratch. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2024-12-31trace: document 'trace wipe'Jerome Forissier
Add documentation for the 'trace wipe' command. Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2024-12-31Merge tag 'v2025.01-rc6' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2025.01-rc6
2024-12-30Prepare v2025.01-rc6v2025.01-rc6Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-12-25Merge tag 'v2025.01-rc5' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2025.01-rc5
2024-12-23Prepare v2025.01-rc5v2025.01-rc5Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-12-15doc: cosmetic: fwu_updates: Fix formattingLeonard Anderweit
Remove one of the double colon so ..code-block is used for formatting. Signed-off-by: Leonard Anderweit <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2024-12-15doc: sending_patches: Fix spelling of "its"J. Neuschäfer
Although it has historically been different, the current standard spelling of the neutral singular possessive pronoun is "its". Signed-off-by: J. Neuschäfer <[email protected]>
2024-12-09Merge tag 'v2025.01-rc4' into nextTom Rini
Prepare v2025.01-rc4
2024-12-09Prepare v2025.01-rc4v2025.01-rc4Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-12-06env: Switch the callback static list to KconfigChristoph Niedermaier
Switch the callback static list from the board configuration variable CFG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC to Kconfig CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC. Signed-off-by: Christoph Niedermaier <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
2024-11-25Prepare v2025.01-rc3v2025.01-rc3Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-11-23doc: move README.kconfig to HTML documentationHeinrich Schuchardt
* format according to Sphinx style * add link to Linux Kconfig documentation * sort table alphabetically in 'Conversion from boards.cfg to Kconfig' Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
2024-11-12Merge patch series "Enable https for wget"Tom Rini
Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> says: Hi all, This is a respin of [1] adding https support to wget. In short patch#1 enables the crypto algorithms we need in mbedTLS patches#2, #3 enable anf fix the lwIP part we need patch#4 is adding https:// parsing support in our wget patch#5 is making https:// the default for QEMU lwip defconfig so people can easily test and finaly patch#6 updates our documentation [1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2024-11-12doc: uefi: Describe UEFI HTTPs bootIlias Apalodimas
We now can use a combination og lwIP & mbedTLS and download from https://. Describe the config options needed to enable it as well as some limitations Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jerome Forissier <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
2024-11-11Prepare v2025.01-rc2v2025.01-rc2Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-11-09doc: remove vile languagemason1920
2024-11-03x86: coreboot: Allow building an expo for editing CMOS configSimon Glass
Coreboot provides the CMOS layout in the tables it passes to U-Boot. Use that to build an editor for the CMOS settings. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
2024-10-28Prepare v2025.01-rc1v2025.01-rc1Tom Rini
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
2024-10-27Merge patch series "Implement ACPI on aarch64"Tom Rini
Patrick Rudolph <[email protected]> says: Based on the existing work done by Simon Glass this series adds support for booting aarch64 devices using ACPI only. As first target QEMU SBSA support is added, which relies on ACPI only to boot an OS. As secondary target the Raspberry Pi4 was used, which is broadly available and allows easy testing of the proposed solution. The series is split into ACPI cleanups and code movements, adding Arm specific ACPI tables and finally SoC and mainboard related changes to boot a Linux on the QEMU SBSA and RPi4. Currently only the mandatory ACPI tables are supported, allowing to boot into Linux without errors. The QEMU SBSA support is feature complete and provides the same functionality as the EDK2 implementation. The changes were tested on real hardware as well on QEMU v9.0: qemu-system-aarch64 -machine sbsa-ref -nographic -cpu cortex-a57 \ -pflash secure-world.rom \ -pflash unsecure-world.rom qemu-system-aarch64 -machine raspi4b -kernel u-boot.bin -cpu cortex-a72 \ -smp 4 -m 2G -drive file=raspbian.img,format=raw,index=0 \ -dtb bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb -nographic Tested against FWTS V24.03.00. Known issues: - The QEMU rpi4 support is currently limited as it doesn't emulate PCI, USB or ethernet devices! - The SMP bringup doesn't work on RPi4, but works in QEMU (Possibly cache related). - PCI on RPI4 isn't working on real hardware since the pcie_brcmstb Linux kernel module doesn't support ACPI yet. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
2024-10-27board: emulation: Add QEMU sbsa supportPatrick Rudolph
Add support for Arm sbsa [1] v0.3+ that is supported by QEMU [2]. Unlike other Arm based platforms the machine only provides a minimal FDT that contains number of CPUs, ammount of memory and machine-version. The boot firmware has to provide ACPI tables to the OS. Due to this design a full DTB is added here as well that allows U-Boot's driver to properly function. The DTB is appended at the end of the U-Boot image and will be merged with the QEMU provided DTB. In addition provide documentation how to use, enable binman to fabricate both ROMs that are required to boot and add ACPI tables to make it full compatible to the EDK2 reference implementation. The board was tested using Fedora 40 Aarch64 Workstation. It's able to boot from USB and AHCI or network. Tested and found working: - serial - PCI - xHCI - Bochs display - AHCI - network using e1000e - CPU init - Booting Fedora 40 1: Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) 2: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/arm/sbsa.html Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Robinson <[email protected]> Cc: Simon Glass <[email protected]> Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>