Re: [PATCH 0/2] J2 Turtle Board fixes

[Rob Landley]

On 2/27/25 01:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Artur,
>
> On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 18:55 +0100, Artur Rojek wrote:
> > this series fixes boot issues and allows J2 Turtle Board to boot
> > upstream Linux again.
> >
> > Patch [1/2] enforces 8-byte alignment for the dtb offset.
> >
> > Patch [2/2] resolves a problem with PIT interrupts failing to register.
>
> I can confirm that this series makes my J2 Turtle Board boot again!
>
> > Even with the above fixes, Turtle Board is prone to occasional freezes
> > related to clock source transition from periodic to hrtimers. I however
> > decided to send those two patches ahead and debug the third issue at a
> > later time.
>
> Yep, it just got stuck for me right after these messages at my first boot attempt:
>
> clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
> futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
> NET: Registered PF_NETLINK/PF_ROUTE protocol family
> clocksource: Switched to clocksource jcore_pit_cs
>
> It boots past these messages on second attempt, although it's now stuck trying to start
> /init. However, it's still echoing <RETURN> strokes, so it might be an issue with Toybox.

Which was fixed a year ago, which is why I told you to use the new 
toolchain with a current musl-libc:

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2024-February/030040.html

Unless you're hitting the OTHER issue I fixed last year...

https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/0b2d5c2bb3f1

Rob