Compiling from master doesn't generate bootable Orange Pi PC images any more

If swapping newer KERNEL/SYSTEM to older SD card works the issue is related to u-boot which is installed to the SD card, and the card has an old version; a newly created card has a newer (non-working) version.

jernej ?

I unfortunately don't have OrangePi PC to test this. I checked OrangePi Plus2E, but everything works fine. Can you connect serial console and see what, if anything, is outputed during boot with non-working U-Boot?

I confirm that with any of the following images, the Orange Pi PC does NOT boot:

1. current stable image LibreELEC-H3.arm-12.0.0-orangepi-pc.img.gz
2. current nightly for 12.0 LibreELEC-H3.arm-12.0-nightly-20240605-61123a8-orangepi-pc.img.gz
3. current nightly for 13.0 LibreELEC-H3.arm-13.0-nightly-20240606-58f0779-orangepi-pc.img.gz

Here is the serial console output for 2:

U-Boot SPL 2024.01 (Jun 05 2024 - 13:19:28 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

U-Boot 2024.01 (Jun 05 2024 - 13:19:28 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC
DRAM:  1 GiB
Core:  58 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate
WDT:   Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0
MMC:   mmc@1c0f000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to read "uboot.env" from mmc0:1... 
In:    serial@1c28000
Out:   serial@1c28000
Err:   serial@1c28000
Net:   No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
1:      LibreELEC
Retrieving file: /KERNEL
append: boot=UUID=0506-0815 disk=UUID=c7985365-59e0-4fa8-bc24-81ba168d0d6d quiet console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1
Retrieving file: /sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb
Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x9cfe48 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
  Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
Working FDT set to 43000000
  Loading Device Tree to 49ff4000, end 49fff32e ... OK
Working FDT set to 49ff4000
Starting kernel ...

And for 3:

U-Boot SPL 2024.04 (Jun 06 2024 - 10:12:07 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2024.04 (Jun 06 2024 - 10:12:07 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC
DRAM:  1 GiB
Core:  58 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate
WDT:   Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0
MMC:   mmc@1c0f000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to read "uboot.env" from mmc0:1... 
In:    serial@1c28000
Out:   serial@1c28000
Err:   serial@1c28000
Net:   No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf
1:      LibreELEC
Retrieving file: /KERNEL
append: boot=UUID=0606-5509 disk=UUID=7dd3a53b-8a56-4bed-8e37-d60a6fadd293 quiet console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1
Retrieving file: /sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dtb
Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x9fdf58 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
Working FDT set to 43000000
   Loading Device Tree to 49ff4000, end 49fff32e ... OK
Working FDT set to 49ff4000

Starting kernel ...

jernej, is there any further information which would be useful for debugging this issue?

Tried to find when it was broken. u-boot 2023.10 works OK. Starting from 2024.01 my Orange Pi PC doesn't boot.

When I delete these patches from projects/Allwinner/devices/H3/patches/u-boot/:

0012-DO-NOT-MERGE-sunxi-psci-Delegate-PSCI-to-SCPI.patch
0013-DO-NOT-MERGE-sunxi-Enable-SCP-SCPI-on-A33-as-well.patch

system boots normally but can not be woken up from suspend via on-board button.

Quote from jernej

I checked OrangePi Plus2E, but everything works fine.

Tried plus2e image on my Orange Pi PC and it worked.

After some research it turned out that CONFIG_REMOTEPROC_SUN6I_AR100 in u-boot is enabled for orangepi_plus2e but not for orangepi_pc.

The reason is that in this commit: https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…0b9c2db50a03683

projects/Allwinner/patches/u-boot/0012-DO-NOT-MERGE-sunxi-Enable-remoteproc-on-H3.patch

is replaced by

projects/Allwinner/patches/u-boot/0011-DO-NOT-MERGE-sunxi-Enable-remoteproc-on-some-H3-boar.patch

which enables AR100 only for Orange Pi One and Orange Pi Plus2E.

After enabling AR100 for Orange Pi PC, it works fine too.

myokaski, thank you for sharing your experience, and sorry for the late response!

First, the issue is still there for the Orange Pi PC with the latest stable image (LibreELEC-H3.arm-12.0.1-orangepi-pc.img.gz).

I managed to flash the image for plus2e (LibreELEC-H3.arm-12.0.1-orangepi-plus2e.img.gz) and now the Orange Pi PC does boot successfully.

Nevertheless, Ethernet is not working, but I suppose this is to be expected due to the different SBC model. This is the relevant log entry:

[    1.567211] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Error: Failed to register MDIO bus for child /soc/ethernet@1c30000/mdio-mux/mdio@2

myokaski, would you please kindly share the steps you took for building a new working image for the Orange Pi PC?

jernej, how can the fix mentioned here be applied to the builds regarding Orange Pi PC?

Thanks!

dando, please try recent nightly images. Seems like it is already fixed here: https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…08106e62a53fe46

Both 12 and 13 should work but I haven't tested it yet

Many thanks @myokask, the latest nightly versions for both LE 12 and 13 seem to work properly so far!