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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi,

On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 16:19 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> The march 2024 rebuild was in response to that Feb 2024 bugfix, so it 
> _should_ have the fix? (I'm waiting for another musl release to rebuild 
> them again...)
> 
> I just downloaded the toolchain currently at that URL and built mkroot 
> and it worked for me:
> 
> Run /init as init process
> sntp: time.google.com:123: Try again
> Type exit when done.
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 6.14.0-rc3 (landley@driftwood) (sh2eb-linux-muslfdpic-cc 
> (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.33.1) #1 SMP Fri Feb 28 15:47:36 
> CST 2025

Is that on Toybox git HEAD?

> And the failure _without_ the fix was deterministic rather than 
> intermittent, so...
> 
> Keep in mind the init script has a 3 second timeout trying to call sntp 
> to set the clock, which will fail if the ethernet isn't connected (or no 
> driver, or no internet...)

I'll try again this weekend. Also, I will review and pick up the fix.

> P.S. Speaking of intermittent, I hit that hang after "clocksource: 
> Switched to clocksource jcore_pit_cs" on one attempt just now. I should 
> sit down with the engineers next time I'm in japan and try to root cause 
> it. The scheduler fires reliably, so it's _probably_ not a hardware 
> issue? We've had Linux uptime of over a year, not just idle but running 
> an energy monitoring app, so it's pretty stable in our systems...

I thought it was a software issue?

Adrian

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