openwrt/package/kernel
Christo Nedev 8dd91b56be brcm2708: Update brcm2708-gpu-fw package
Problem - rapsberry pi 3 b/b+ does not boot with bcm2710 images!

How Raspberry Pi boots Actualy?

When Raspberry is switched on GPU is activated.
1. GPU execute First stage bootloader from ROM.
First stage bootloader mount the FAT boot partition on the SD card
and execute second stage bootloader (bootcode.bin).
2. Second stage bootloader (bootcode.bin) activate SDRAM.
Load the GPU firmware (start.elf).
3. GPU firmware (start.elf)
  a) display Rainbow splash.
  b) read firmware configuration file config.txt and
     split the RAM using fixup.dat.
  c) loads a cmdline.txt
  d) enables the CPU.
  e) loads the kernel image configurable via config.txt

In your target/linux/brcm2708/image/config.txt
 493 ## kernel (string)
 494 ##     Alternative name to use when loading kernel.
 495 ##
 496 #kernel=""
it is not configured!

But in your target/linux/brcm2708/image/Makefile
  75   KERNEL_IMG := kernel8.img
  76   DEVICE_TITLE := Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+
you have kernel8.img

GPU Firmware search order by default for a PI 3 is:
kernel8.img if found boot in 64 bit mode
kernel8-32.img if found boot in 32 bit mode
kernel7.img if found boot in 32 bit mode
kernel.img if found boot in 32 bit mode

But a PI 2 will start the search from kernel7.img and
a PI 1 only looks for kernel.img.

Оbviously the kernel has been found.
But something goes wrong and the device is restarted.

In your package/kernel/brcm2708-gpu-fw/Makefile
  11 PKG_NAME:=brcm2708-gpu-fw
  12 PKG_VERSION:=2017-08-08
  13 PKG_RELEASE:=e7ba7ab135f5a68b2c00a919ea9ac8d5528a5d5b
boot loader is 10 monts old.

In conclusion, the best way to solve the problem is
to update the boot loader!

Fixup_cd.dat and start_cd.elf files are not necessary.
These are used when GPU memory is set to 16 MB, which disables
some GPU features.
I did not remove them just in case!

cheers

Signed-off-by: Christo Nedev <christo.nedev@gmail.com>
(backported from c335649629)
2018-12-18 10:08:24 +01:00
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acx-mac80211 acx-mac80211: fix build on kernel 4.9 2017-11-22 08:21:53 +01:00
ar7-atm ar7-atm: fix function signatures with expected ones 2017-10-29 23:41:00 +01:00
ath10k-ct ath10k-ct: search DT for BDF variant info 2018-07-08 23:22:17 +02:00
avila-wdt build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
brcm2708-gpu-fw brcm2708: Update brcm2708-gpu-fw package 2018-12-18 10:08:24 +01:00
broadcom-wl broadcom-wl: fix compilation with 4.14 2018-02-11 23:15:05 +01:00
button-hotplug build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
dtc/patches package: kernel: dtc: Add DTO support 2017-11-06 16:39:41 +01:00
gpio-button-hotplug build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
gpio-nct5104d kernel: gpio-nct5104d remove boardname check 2018-08-08 15:35:46 +02:00
hwmon-gsc build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
i2c-gpio-custom build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
kmod-sched-cake kmod-sched-cake: bump to 20181002 2018-10-02 20:00:42 +01:00
lantiq ltq-vdsl-mei: reset g_tx_link_rate on showtime exit 2018-06-18 21:21:54 +02:00
leds-apu2 kernel: leds-apu2 remove boardname check 2018-08-08 15:37:10 +02:00
linux netfilter: add bpf match support 2018-12-18 09:44:01 +01:00
mac80211 mac80211: fix spurious disconnections with powersave clients 2018-11-13 21:18:29 +01:00
mt76 mt76: update to the latest version, sync with master 2018-11-13 01:00:28 +01:00
mwlwifi mwlwifi: update to version 10.3.8.0-20180615 2018-08-11 09:51:16 +02:00
om-watchdog treewide: use the generic board_name function 2017-07-15 23:13:34 +02:00
rotary-gpio-custom build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
rtc-rv5c386a build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
spi-gpio-custom build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00
trelay build: add KERNEL_MAKE and KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS variables and move to kernel.mk 2017-06-07 18:31:10 +02:00
w1-gpio-custom build: use KERNEL_MAKE_FLAGS for kernel file compilations 2017-10-29 16:17:05 +01:00