U-Boot SPI Boot Failure

[apowers313]

After building the Orange Pi 5 U-Boot image and writing it to SPI, the board won't boot. The only difference on the serial console is that atf-1 and similar don't seem to be loaded (see below). It appears that the Arm Trusted Firmware isn't included in the SPI image (despite being part of the build process).

To reproduce (building on the Orange Pi 5 itself):

git clone https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-orange-pi5.git
cd ubuntu-orange-pi5/
./build.sh --board=orangepi5 --uboot-only
cp ./build/u-boot-orangepi/debian/build/orangepi5/rkspi_loader.img .
sudo dd if=./rkspi_loader.img of=/dev/mtdblock0 conv=notrunc

Output when booting:

[...]
## Verified-boot: 0
## Checking uboot 0x00200000 ... sha256(0603bd422d...) + OK
## Checking fdt 0x00349a00 ... sha256(6a0656d703...) + OK
Total: 495.155 ms

Jumping to U-Boot(0x00200000)

[device hangs at this point]

Output when booting using Orange Pi provided U-Boot (/usr/lib/linux-u-boot-legacy-orangepi5_1.1.4_arm64/rkspi_loader.img):

[...]
## Verified-boot: 0
## Checking atf-1 0x00040000 ... sha256(806278dba1...) + OK
## Checking uboot 0x00200000 ... sha256(c4e3ce0f43...) + OK
## Checking fdt 0x00349718 ... sha256(ffc773db5b...) + OK
## Checking atf-2 0x000f0000 ... sha256(c00c7fd75b...) + OK
## Checking atf-3 0xff100000 ... sha256(71c3a5841b...) + OK
## Checking atf-4 0xff001000 ... sha256(2301cf73be...) + OK
Jumping to U-Boot(0x00200000) via ARM Trusted Firmware(0x00040000)
Total: 507.3 ms

INFO:    Preloader serial: 2
[...]

[device continues to boot at this point]

[Joshua-Riek]

Thanks for reporting this, I have been making many changes to the build process of u-boot and the kernel in preparation for supporting other boards. I'm looking into this now.

[Joshua-Riek]

I tested the latest build on my build server, and U-Boot works fine. However, think that I know the issue. U-Boot will not report an error if python2 is not installed and will continue the build process. Try downloading the below packages and compile U-Boot again, it should work without issue.

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu bison \
qemu-user-static qemu-system-arm qemu-efi u-boot-tools binfmt-support \
debootstrap flex libssl-dev bc rsync kmod cpio xz-utils fakeroot parted \
udev dosfstools uuid-runtime git-lfs device-tree-compiler python2 python3 \
python-is-python3 fdisk

[apowers313]

That did the trick, thanks!

And thanks again for the awsome project and speedy help.