Upgrading u-boot needed ? - Was: Re: "opkg upgrade" breaks USB networking: g_ether module missing

[Michael Shiloh]

Olivier Berger wrote:
> Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> writes:
> 
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>> | Could someone point to these valid u-boot*.bin files please ?
>>
>> |
>> http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/freerunner/200808/20080804/uboot-gta02v5-latest.bin
> 
> Alright, it's the one I had picked.
> 
>> | and got a message displayed advertising some april version (which I
>> | unfortunately didn't write down)... so I'm puzzled :(
>>
>> Are you sure that it is not 4th Aug --> looks like 8th April in some
>> countries?  I doubt the latest symlink is broken for so many months.
>>
> 
> Might be that... No way to start over :(
> 
>> | How could I check which version I'm using on my FR and if it's
>> | up-to-date or not ?
>>
>> At the moment we don't stamp the image with the git head of the sources
>> it came from, we should move to that. 
> 
> I guess so.
> 
>> There's a build date on the menu
> 
> Well... should it read "U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12 (May 9 2008 - 10:28:48)"
> on first line, then ? ... I'd expect something closer from now :-/
> 
>> and coming out of the serial console as you saw.
>>
> 
> Same hopefully ;) :
> 
> GTA02v5 # version
> 
> U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12 (May  9 2008 - 10:28:48)
> 
>> At the moment this one is up to date for today and has the "USB Insane
>> Spam Mode" fixes.
>>
>> http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/freerunner/200808/20080804/u-boot-gta02v5-1.3.1+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb-r0.bin
>>
> 
> Tried it and get the same versions (means the link are OK on the
> download site).
> 
> 
> I thought about trying something : 
> 
> # ./dfu-util -a u-boot -R -U current-uboot.bin
> 
> # strings current-uboot.bin  | grep git
> U-Boot 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb (Aug  4 2008 - 02:33:52)
> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb
> 
> So obviously, the version on u-boot's prompt is not meanlingful,
> then... :(
> 
> Should I file a bug report ?


I would consider it a bug that the version on u-boot's prompt is not 
meaningful, although I know in some cases that comes out of the source 
control package automatically and is not easily fixed. Is that the case 
in our case, or is this an error that can be fixed?