Hi, I'm facing a new problem for my Mt7628/vocore2 target.

I moved the Linux kernel from a ext4 partition to the "proper" SquashFS partition (I say "proper" because I'm using a dual-system with fallback to avoid updating the currently working rootFS and kernel lies into rootFS).

I am using u-boot v2020.10-rc3 plus the attached patches (one pertains SquashFS).

Problem is a real cold boot (target off for more than one minute) leads to a load failure for the kernel. A warm boot ("reboot" from a running Linux) or a not-so-cold boot (turn target off and power it on again after a few seconds) seems to work as expected.

I tried to insert delays and/or "mmc rescan", but that does not seem to have any effect. Also error message is not always the same; sometimes I get:

Error: too many data blocks to be read. Failed to load '/boot/uImage'

other times:

** fs_devread read error - block Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized filesystem type **

My full environment is:

BOOT_CURRENT=A SYSTEM_R=/dev/mtdblock5 arch=mips baudrate=115200 board=vocore2 board_name=vocore2 boot_a=echo "Loading System A";part=6;run boot_x boot_b=echo "Loading System B";part=7;run boot_x boot_now=if test "${BOOT_CURRENT}" = A; then run boot_a; elif test "${BOOT_CURRENT}" = B; then run boot_b; fi; if env exists BOOT_A_GOOD; then run boot_a; fi; if env exists BOOT_B_GOOD; then run boot_b; fi; run boot_r boot_r=echo "Loading Recovery"; setenv bootargs "${default_bootargs} mtdparts=${mtdparts} root=/dev/mtdblock5"; bootm bc050000 boot_x=load mmc 0:${part} 85000000 /boot/uImage && setenv bootargs "${default_bootargs} mtdparts=${mtdparts} root=/dev/mmcblk0p${part}" && bootm ${fileaddr} bootcmd=run do_boot bootcount=1 bootdelay=2 cpu=mips32 default_bootargs=earlyprintk rootwait console=ttyS2,115200 do_boot=test ${bootcount} -gt 1 && run remove_boot; run boot_now fdtcontroladdr=86f6d340 fileaddr=84000000 filesize=154 fupdate=mmc rescan && load mmc 0:1 84000000 uboot.scr && fatrm mmc 0:1 uboot.scr && source 84000000 && echo Flash updated || Flash update FAILED! mtdids=nor0=spi0.0 mtdparts=spi0.0:312k(u-boot),4k(env),4k(factory),2368k(kernel),-(filesystem) remove_boot=if env exists BOOT_CURRENT; then setenv BOOT_CURRENT; saveenv; elif env exists BOOT_A_GOOD; then setenv BOOT_A_GOOD; saveenv; elif env exists BOOT_B_GOOD; then setenv BOOT_B_GOOD; saveenv; fi soc=mt7628 stderr=uart2@e00 stdin=uart2@e00 stdout=uart2@e00 vendor=vocore ver=U-Boot 2020.10-rc3 (Sep 16 2020 - 19:43:03 +0200)

It was suggested (on IRC) it could be a cache problem. unfortunately trying to enable cache control (CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) raises error in compilation:

...   LD      u-boot /home/valeria/MyProject/VoCore/Buildroot-2/recov/per-package/uboot/host/bin/mipsel-linux-ld.bfd: cmd/built-in.o: in function `do_icache': cmd/cache.c:(.text.do_icache+0x5c): undefined reference to `icache_disable' /home/valeria/MyProject/VoCore/Buildroot-2/recov/per-package/uboot/host/bin/mipsel-linux-ld.bfd: cmd/cache.c:(.text.do_icache+0x6c): undefined reference to `icache_enable' /home/valeria/MyProject/VoCore/Buildroot-2/recov/per-package/uboot/host/bin/mipsel-linux-ld.bfd: cmd/cache.c:(.text.do_icache+0x8c): undefined reference to `icache_status' Makefile:1753: recipe for target 'u-boot' failed make[2]: *** [u-boot] Error 1 package/pkg-generic.mk:266 http://pkg-generic.mk:266: recipe for target '/home/valeria/MyProject/VoCore/Buildroot-2/recov/build/uboot-v2020.10-rc3/.stamp_built' failed make[1]: *** [/home/valeria/MyProject/VoCore/Buildroot-2/recov/build/uboot-v2020.10-rc3/.stamp_built] Error 2 Makefile:23: recipe for target '_all' failed make: *** [_all] Error 2

and I have no idea how to fix this.

Any hint would be very welcome as this is a real show-stopper for me.

Thanks in Advance Mauro