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Raspberry pi 4B Rev 1.4 board fails to boot at u-boot

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    • Raspberry Pi 4

      Latest revision of raspberry pi 4B board (Rev 1.4, which has SoC 2711ZPKFSB06C0T on it) can't boot with "No partition table" message like following:

       

      U-Boot 2020.10 (Jun 29 2020 - 03:06:40 +0000)
      
      DRAM:  7.7 GiB
      RPI 4 Model B (0xd03114)
      MMC:   mmcnr@7e300000: 1, emmc2@7e340000: 0
      Loading Environment from FAT... ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
      In:    serial
      Out:   serial
      Err:   serial
      Net:   eth0: ethernet@7d580000
      PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
      starting USB...
      Bus xhci_pci: probe failed, error -110
      No working controllers found
      Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
      switch to partitions #0, OK
      mmc0 is current device
      ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
      [snip]

       

      After several research, I've found similar bug report here: 255080 – U-Boot build for Raspberry Pi 4 (arm64) does not boot from MicroSD card slot (freebsd.org)

      As suggested there, I've confirmed that upgrading u-boot to 2021.04 version fixes the issue (but 2021.01 doesn't). The cause would be related to the change of the DMA hardware.

      2711ZPKFSB06BOT
       vs.
      2711ZPKFSB06C0T
      is a major change in that there is a bunch of logic
      special to the B0T variant to deal with a DMA limitation
      of not being able to span the full address space. The
      C0T variant has the hardware fixed and is not limited
      to the lower 3 GiBytes. The RPi firmware likely configures
      the C)T parts differently in various ways.
      

      I haven't took a careful look of that Linux kernel has similar issue or not, but it seems like there are no obvious problem on SD card access etc. after kernel boot.

       

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            ishii.hiroyuki Hiroyuki Ishii
            ishii.hiroyuki Hiroyuki Ishii
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