No boot, 7 blinks on reboot

[bloke]

Hi,

I updated a Raspberry Pi 3B running aarch64 linux-rpi-5.10.83-1
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
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Linux computername 5.10.83-1-rpi-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 7 15:21:39 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[ivanrajkovic]

There is already linux-rpi 5.10.89-1, I guess they were aware of the problem.

[bloke]

Unfortunately I diagnosed this issue incorrectly. It isn't linux-rpi-* rather raspberrypi-bootloader-20211222-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

I had the previous version checked out during the reversion so

raspberrypi-bootloader-20211207-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is good for RPi3B

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
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Linux computername 5.10.89-1-rpi-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 31 18:16:21 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux

[rern]

RPi4 and Zero W are fine but 3B+, 3B and Zero 2 W stuck at boot with 7 flashes.
pacman -Syu --ignore raspberrypi-bootloader - Reboot ok.

[graysky]

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1671

[bloke]

I tested raspberrypi-bootloader-20220101-1-any on a 3B, same dice - no boot, 7 blinks on reboot

[plerner]

@graysky Could you roll back the package to the last version know to be working ok?
Just to prevent others bricking their rpi3's ...

P

[ufo6000]

Looks like
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware
with 19b570d will fix the issue, "firmware: arm-loader: Fix kernel8.img selection on 2837 with arm_64bit=1"

BTW, 7 flashes means: kernel.img not found.

As workaround "an explicit kernel=kernel8.img" could help too - not tested by me.

[graysky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ufo6000', 'L')ooks like
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware
with 19b570d will fix the issue, "firmware: arm-loader: Fix kernel8.img selection on 2837 with arm_64bit=1"

[ufo6000]

thanks very much for the rebuild. I did a full upgrade and the rpi3 boots fine:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
Package (41) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
...
alarm/raspberrypi-bootloader 20211207-1 20220104-1 0,00 MiB 3,35 MiB
...
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