ramips: Strange boot failures on TP-Link RE200v1

[Andreas Böhler]

On 08/12/2020 00:53, Alberto Bursi wrote:
>
> On 08/12/20 00:12, Andreas Böhler wrote:
>> I added TP-Link RE200v1 device support a few months ago. Currently, the
>> snapshot builds are broken - they started to break about 4 weeks ago.
>> The system does not even boot, the last output on serial is "Starting
>> kernel ..." from U-Boot. The initramfs image works fine.
>>
>> The interesting thing is: all my local builds run perfectly fine, from
>> RAM or from flash. If I sysupgrade to snapshot, even the snapshot build
>> boots and runs fine as long as the device is not unplugged for longer
>> than about a minute.
>>
>> As I can't reproduce this behaviour with my build, I'm out of ideas. Can
>> someone give me an idea on what might cause this?
>>
> maybe the build defaults for buildbot are broken.
>
> You can enable that in the menu
>
> Global build settings  --->
>
> and then select
>
> Set build defaults for automatic builds (e.g. via buildbot)

Interesting option that I wasn't aware of. Didn't change anything,
though: my build still works properly.