[Letux-kernel] Debugging 4.11-rc6 on GTA04

[Andreas Kemnade]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:28:11 +0200
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> 
> > Am 11.04.2017 um 20:22 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:10:52 +0200
> > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >>> Am 11.04.2017 um 19:49 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> >>> 
> >>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:36:32 +0200
> >>> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi Andreas,
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Am 11.04.2017 um 12:43 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:01:28 +0200
> >>>>> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Am 10.04.2017 um 20:13 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>> I have found a little time to upgrade our tree to 4.11-rc6
> >>>>>>> and for the first time there were no kernel oops on the GTA04(A5)
> >>>>>>> until login.
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Only the LCD is broken :(
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> On the Pyra the same kernel works well. So it seems to be
> >>>>>>> OMAP3 specific (maybe again some interference of the TILER
> >>>>>>> addition, but I can easily check by merging my 4.11-rc6
> >>>>>>> without TILER).
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I have now built w/o TILER and for the first two boot attempts I had the
> >>>>>> same error. But the third one succeeded. This time I got
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> And the ethernet gadget was not loaded (initially). No VBUS event reported. But charger started charging.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> After unplugging the USB cable I got:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> root at letux:~# [  230.016326] musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.0.auto: VBUS_ERROR in b_idle (90, <VBusValid), retry #0, port1 00000100
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> And then:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> [  237.857330] g_ether gadget: high-speed config #1: CDC Ethernet (ECM)
> >>>>>> [  238.624481] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): usb0: link becomes ready
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Otherwise I didn't see any significant issue.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> So it looks as if we still have two bugs: one in musb and another one in TILER/crtc.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>> Sounds like problems which can be bisected on mainline. I think I will
> >>>>> bisect this evening a bit. With musb, there is probably just another
> >>>>> enable/disable balancing problem which must be somehow worked around in
> >>>>> the glue layer or phy.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Good ideas!
> >>>> 
> >>>> But this gave me another idea... I have added a command line option to my
> >>>> merge script so that it ignores the mergefile. Then I can add a handful
> >>>> of our feature branches to be merged on top of letux-base.
> >>>> 
> >>>> With these ones, I could get it compiled and run on the GTA04A5 (of course missing sound,
> >>>> inverted touch etc.):
> >>>> 
> >>>> ./merge -p -nmf -- work/hns/letux/rootfs work/hns/dt/gta04 work/hns/dt/gta04a5 work/hns/mtd/onenand work/marek/generic-adc-battery work/hns/misc/w2sg-serdev
> >>>> 
> >>>> Result is at:
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/letux-4.11-rc6%2Brootfs%2Bgta04%2Bgta04a5%2Bonenand%2Bgeneric-adc-battery%2Bw2sg-serdev
> >>>> 
> >>>> Interestingly our feature branches are not as independent as they should
> >>>> be... The generic adc battery is needed for some #include in the GTA04DT and
> >>>> GTA04A5 wants to modify a bluetooth node that comes through the w2sg-serdev
> >>>> branch.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Anyways, the important information is: with this minimum set of feature branches
> >>>> I have neither problems with musb nor display. So the issue is not coming from
> >>>> mainline...
> >>>> 
> >>> Well, I have just a white screen here with that. So, there is more...
> >> 
> >> Hm. That is unexpected... I am not 100% sure if I did a clean build.
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> AFAICR, the most important this
> >>> missing in twl4030_charger are the things to have detection working when
> >>> the stuff is loaded. So for mainline experiments, the idea would be to
> >>> build musb/twl stuff not as modules. And keep our device tree.
> >> 
> >> Well, the strangest thing is that I have merged all the listed branches on
> >> top of letux-base and all of them work.
> >> 
> >> So I am either making a systematic mistake or the real bug is outside of the
> >> musb/twl4030 subsystem.
> >> 
> > I checked 4.10.0 mainline + letux-4.11-rc6 feature branch -> working
> > display (besides of non-calibrated touchscreen, could log in via usb

oops, incorrect information here:
4.10.0 mainline combined with dtb from letux-4.11-rc6 works.

> > 
> > mainline 4.11-rc6 funny moving stripes on the display, no usb.
> 
> Ah, you mean mainline. I haven't tested that but letux-base which has some
> old (but probably important) patches we have not yet extracted into separate
> feature branches. Recently I worked out a strategy but it is still a lot
> of manual work (resolve rebase conflicts).
> 
> > 
> >> I think I will have to bisect the mergefile until I find the problematic
> >> feature branch...
> > 
> > I still blame mainline. But I do not like these bugs which happen only
> > sometimes.
> 
> letux-base plus some minimal feature branches for the GTA04A5 work,
> but the full set doesn't. So it is something in the set of our feature branches.
> 
I have tested your last branch and it has still display problems here!
And there should be no reason why 4.11-rc6 mainline should work less
than 4.10.0 mainline.
At the moment I am bisecting mainline, 9 steps to go. 

Regards,
Andreas
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