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I've recently started seeing similar issues on my orange pi 5 plus and have narrowed it down to uboot spl not detecting the sd cards on initial cold boot. The reason I started noticing this is because I have long overlay path names that are fine with the version of uboot proper that I have on my sd card but does not work with the uboot proper that is on the onboard eeprom. I only started noticing this when getting a new batch of sd cards. this is a "good boot" uboot spl detects the sd card and boots from it: DDR 9fffbe1e78 cym 24/02/04-10:09:20,fwver: v1.16 LPDDR4X, 2112MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB Manufacturer ID:0xff CH0 RX Vref:29.3%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% CH1 RX Vref:28.9%, TX Vref:23.8%,22.8% CH2 RX Vref:30.1%, TX Vref:21.8%,20.8% CH3 RX Vref:30.5%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% change to F1: 528MHz change to F2: 1068MHz change to F3: 1560MHz change to F0: 2112MHz out U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-orangepi (Aug 30 2024 - 22:09:16) Trying to boot from MMC1 Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking atf-1 0x00040000 ... sha256(d37470e935...) + OK ## Checking u-boot 0x00a00000 ... sha256(249bd3a5c2...) + OK ## Checking fdt-1 0x00acd498 ... sha256(537243530a...) + OK ## Checking atf-2 0xff100000 ... sha256(394f39cea2...) + OK Jumping to U-Boot(0x00a00000) via ARM Trusted Firmware(0x00040000) Total: 840.114 ms NOTICE: BL31: v2.12.1(release): NOTICE: BL31: Built : 00:00:00, Jan 1 1980 At this point uboot proper which lives on my sd card and remaps the debug uart to one of the 40 pin header runs. in a bad boot I am seeing this: DDR 9fffbe1e78 cym 24/02/04-10:09:20,fwver: v1.16 LPDDR4X, 2112MHz channel[0] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[1] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[2] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB channel[3] BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=17 CS1 Row=17 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=4096MB Manufacturer ID:0xff CH0 RX Vref:29.3%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% CH1 RX Vref:29.3%, TX Vref:23.8%,22.8% CH2 RX Vref:30.5%, TX Vref:21.8%,20.8% CH3 RX Vref:30.5%, TX Vref:21.8%,21.8% change to F1: 528MHz change to F2: 1068MHz change to F3: 1560MHz change to F0: 2112MHz out U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-orangepi (Aug 30 2024 - 22:09:16) Trying to boot from MMC1 spl: mmc init failed with error: -95 Trying to boot from MMC2 Card did not respond to voltage select! spl: mmc init failed with error: -95 Trying to boot from MTD2 Trying fit image at 0x400 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking atf-1 0x00040000 ... sha256(6dbe36e3e6...) + OK ## Checking uboot 0x00200000 ... sha256(152eb1bd26...) + OK ## Checking fdt 0x00325f70 ... sha256(16188a5876...) + OK ## Checking atf-2 0xff100000 ... sha256(40e9180d15...) + OK ## Checking atf-3 0x000f0000 ... sha256(d189664c33...) + OK Jumping to U-Boot(0x00200000) via ARM Trusted Firmware(0x00040000) Total: 2706.733 ms INFO: Preloader serial: 2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.3():v2.3-754-g371ede2b2:cym, fwver: NOTICE: BL31: Built : 19:36:27, Apr 22 2024 INFO: spec: 0x1 INFO: code: 0x88 INFO: ext 32k is valid INFO: ddr: stride-en 4CH INFO: GICv3 without legacy support detected. INFO: ARM GICv3 driver initialized in EL3 INFO: valid_cpu_msk=0xff bcore0_rst = 0x0, bcore1_rst = 0x0 INFO: l3 cache partition cfg-0 INFO: system boots from cpu-hwid-0 INFO: bypass memory repair INFO: idle_st=0x21fff, pd_st=0x11fff9, repair_st=0xfff70001 INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[0].freq_mhz= 2112MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[1].freq_mhz= 528MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[2].freq_mhz= 1068MHz INFO: dfs DDR fsp_params[3].freq_mhz= 1560MHz INFO: BL31: Initialising Exception Handling Framework INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will return SMC_UNK ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 here uboot spl does not detect my sd card and continues to boot from uboot proper that lives on the eeprom. it then at that point detects the sd card and boots linux from there. but as I mentioned above other things fail because my device tree overlay file name lengths. I was able to get around this by sym linking and shortening the dtbs. either way I suspect that there is an issue with newer versions of sd cards or older versions of uboot spl that these orange pis are being shipped with preventing it from detecting the sd cards. this is an sd card that works fine: Card Reader: Built in SD Card Reader: Vendor ID: 0x17a0 Device ID: 0x9755 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x17a0 Subsystem ID: 0x9755 Revision: 0x0002 Link Width: x1 Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s SDXC Card (Class 10): Product Name: SDSN128 Manufacturer ID: 0x03 Revision: 8.6 Serial Number: 0x22b7de5b Manufacturing Date: 2025-04 Specification Version: 3.0 Capacity: 127.87 GB (127,865,454,592 bytes) Removable Media: Yes BSD Name: disk4 Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: FIRMWARE: Free: 7.3 MB (7,288,832 bytes) Capacity: 31.5 MB (31,457,280 bytes) Writable: Yes File System: MS-DOS FAT16 BSD Name: disk4s1 Mount Point: /Volumes/FIRMWARE Content: DOS_FAT_32 Volume UUID: 7CB50D4B-9DF9-3646-8316-CB3C06C369BB disk4s2: Capacity: 127.82 GB (127,817,220,096 bytes) BSD Name: disk4s2 Content: Linux this is an sd card that does not work: Card Reader: Built in SD Card Reader: Vendor ID: 0x17a0 Device ID: 0x9755 Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x17a0 Subsystem ID: 0x9755 Revision: 0x0002 Link Width: x1 Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s SDXC Card (Class 10): Product Name: SDSM128 Manufacturer ID: 0x03 Revision: 8.7 Serial Number: 0xb26e2098 Manufacturing Date: 2025-10 Specification Version: 3.0 Capacity: 128 GB (127,999,672,320 bytes) Removable Media: Yes BSD Name: disk4 Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Volumes: FIRMWARE: Free: 7.3 MB (7,288,832 bytes) Capacity: 31.5 MB (31,457,280 bytes) Writable: Yes File System: MS-DOS FAT16 BSD Name: disk4s1 Mount Point: /Volumes/FIRMWARE Content: DOS_FAT_32 Volume UUID: 7CB50D4B-9DF9-3646-8316-CB3C06C369BB disk4s2: Capacity: 127.95 GB (127,951,437,824 bytes) BSD Name: disk4s2 Content: Linux take note here of the difference in product name and revision.