[meta-freescale] U-Boot and Video Issues

[Daiane Angolini]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 2:33 PM Dan Riegsecker <1baldgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm working with an NXP SABRESD board which has an i.MX 6Q processor, building images with the Yocto Project, Sumo version. I am building the fsl-image-multimedia with the settings listed below. These images are being deployed to an SD card and boot from that SD card.
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> MACHINE ??= 'imx6qdlsabresd'
> DISTRO ?= 'fslc-framebuffer'
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> The U-Boot that is being built is u-boot-fslc from https://github.com/Freescale/u-boot-fslc and branch 2018.07+fslc. I am not seeing the dynamically generated video_args being passed to the the kernel command line via the mmcargs U-Boot environment variable. When I examine the u-boot-fslc/include/configs/mx6sabre_common.h file I see the following at line 112.
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> "mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} " \
> "root=PARTUUID=${uuid} rootwait rw\0" \
> VIDEO_ARGS "\0" \
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> Wouldn't the NULL termination at the end of "rootwait rw" have the effect of not allowing the VIDEO_ARGS to be appended to the mmcargs and therefore not appended to the bootargs? When I cat /proc/cmdline on the booted system, I do not see any video settings passed to the kernel.
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Would you, please, generate and test a patch for this issue?

> Not seeing any video settings being sent to the kernel, I changed my mmcargs as listed below.
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> setenv mmcargs 'setenv bootargs console=${console},${baudrate} root=PARTUUID=${uuid} rootwait rw ${video_args}'
> saveenv
> reset
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> Now if I have a display connected the the HDMI port, I have tried two different displays, the kernel will not run and does not output anything, like a panic, over the serial console. When I boot the Sabre board with nothing plugged into the HDMI port the kernel loads and the video setting can be seen in /proc/cmdline. I am able to boot the NXP images, version imx-4.9.88-2.0.0_ga, with the same board and HDMI displays, having video working as expected. What would be causing the kernel to not load when an HDMI display is connected and video settings are passed to the the kernel via the command line, using only the Freescale community layers of Yocto?
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Can you, please, confirm if it's this issue:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6703


Best Regards,
Daiane

> Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
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