Mainline U-Boot with SPI, NVMe and SATA boot support

[mdesign]

I've made another build based on 2020.07 using this branch, with a couple of additional patches:

Patch from Tian Yuanhao which allows compressed (gzip, etc) kernels to be loaded. No need to gunzip the default arm64 kernels to load them with u-boot anymore.
Patch from Jagan Teki which is supposed to enable USB-3 support on the USB-3.0 type A port. When testing this with the one USB-3 disk drive I have, it didn't seem to work, the disk drive wasn't detected in the USB-3.0 port. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has success in using USB-3.0 devices in USB-3.0 mode with this. Note the USB Type C port is configured as OTG mode by default in the DTS, and so won't be used as a host port, so only the Type A port should be used for USB-3.0.

Build artifacts for MMC and SPI installation from this branch can be found here.

This works fine for me with USB3--  I  have attached the u-boot logs from booting a SANDISK extreme stick and then a Samsung portable ssd T150.  I was booting from SPI .  I also booted my NVME,  which I removed in order to boot the other devices,  since that is first in the boot order.   When not booting from the USB3,  the kernel recognizes the USB3 devices, just FYI.   Is there anything in particular I could do to help you debug your issue?

Opposite experience for me here.  I did a fresh install of manjaro on a USB flash drive, ran all the updates and then installed from the link above.  Sata boot still works, but this breaks USB boot.  Not even USB2 boots properly now.  Both stick at "Booting using fdtblob at 0x1f0000000"

Was seeing this on the screen something we could have turned on before?  I prefer it to the blindly waiting for the OS to load.

Hi, could you or someone resolve this "Booting using fdtblob at 0x1f0000000" somehow?
I got the same with latest Armbian_21.02.3_Rockpro64_focal_current_5.10.21.img.xz and U-Boot 2020.10-07966-ge34a1785a0 (Nov 17 2020 - 19:32:18 +0000))

Code:

U-Boot 2020.10-07966-ge34a1785a0 (Nov 17 2020 - 19:32:18 +0000)

SoC: Rockchip rk3399
Reset cause: POR
Model: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.1
DRAM:  3.9 GiB
PMIC:  RK808
MMC:   mmc@fe310000: 2, mmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected gd25q128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   vidconsole
Err:   vidconsole
Model: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.1
Net:   eth0: ethernet@fe300000
starting USB...
Bus usb@fe380000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb@fe3a0000: USB OHCI 1.0
Bus usb@fe3c0000: USB EHCI 1.00
Bus usb@fe3e0000: USB OHCI 1.0
Bus dwc3: usb maximum-speed not found
Register 2000140 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.10
scanning bus usb@fe380000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@fe3a0000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@fe3c0000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@fe3e0000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus dwc3 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Card did not respond to voltage select!
Card did not respond to voltage select!

Device 0: unknown device
scanning bus for devices...
Target spinup took 0 ms.
SATA link 1 timeout.
SATA link 2 timeout.
SATA link 3 timeout.
SATA link 4 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0301 32 slots 5 ports 6 Gbps 0x1f impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq stag pm led clo pmp fbss pio slum part ccc apst boh
  Device 0: (0:0) Vendor: ATA Prod.: INTEL SSDSC2KW48 Rev: LSF
            Type: Hard Disk
            Capacity: 457862.8 MB = 447.1 GB (937703088 x 512)

Device 0: (0:0) Vendor: ATA Prod.: INTEL SSDSC2KW48 Rev: LSF
            Type: Hard Disk
            Capacity: 457862.8 MB = 447.1 GB (937703088 x 512)
... is now current device
Scanning scsi 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
3185 bytes read in 9 ms (344.7 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 00500000
Boot script loaded from scsi 0
166 bytes read in 8 ms (19.5 KiB/s)
15335962 bytes read in 254 ms (57.6 MiB/s)
28582400 bytes read in 463 ms (58.9 MiB/s)
75809 bytes read in 19 ms (3.8 MiB/s)
2698 bytes read in 15 ms (174.8 KiB/s)
Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (rockchip-fixup.scr)
## Executing script at 09000000
Moving Image from 0x2080000 to 0x2200000, end=3de0000
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 06000000 ...
   Image Name:   uInitrd
   Image Type:   AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    15335898 Bytes = 14.6 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000