[External] Solve the problem of bad CRC when using u-boot-aspeed-sdk

[Lei Yu]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 4:05 PM George Liu <liuxiwei1013 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone:
>
> The 64M flash used by Inspur's fp5280g2 machine has recently found
> that it cannot be saved when setting the u-boot environment variable,
> and then a warning message appears when rebooting:
>
> ```
> Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected mx66l51235l with
> page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 64 MiB
> *** Warning-bad CRC, using default environment
> ```
>
> Since fp5280g2 includes `openbmc-flash-layout-64.dtsi`, the initial problem is:
> 1. The value of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET[1] of u-boot is
> inconsistent with the size of u-boot env of Kernel's
> openbmc-flash-layout-64.dtsi[2].
> 2. The `Env. size` of the fw_env_ast2600_nor.config[3] file also needs
> to be updated
>
> After modifying the above problem and test by:
> 1. Use `setenv` to add a new environment variable in u-boot and reboot
> BMC, and then use `fw_printenv` to see this value synchronously.
> 2. Use `fw_setenv` to add a new environment variable in BMC and reboot
> BMC into u-boot, and then use `printenv` to see this value
> synchronously.
>
> We pushed a new patch to meta-inspur and it worked fine.
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/openbmc/+/49916

Good to know the issue is fixed.
Could you kindly re-work the patches to make it applicable for all
systems using 64MiB static layout?


-- 
BRs,
Lei YU