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[Peter Robinson]

> On 26 October 2014 18:40:55 GMT+08:00, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>append ro root=UUID=c078beec-18b2-44ae-aac5-e6fc275b45c5
>>>>>>console=ttyS0,115200 loglevel=8
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Then he boots into firstboot on serial console which is nice.
>>>>Ethernet
>>>>>>etc seems to work fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Couple more findings
>>>>>
>>>>>  - Cubietruck Ethernet onboard is broken.  His phy negotiates the
>>>>link OK but he cannot pass traffic.  Googling around other people get
>>>>this from non-3.4 kernel, so it's something missing upstream I guess.
>>>>>
>>>>> Latest rawhide kernel (3.18.0-0.rc1.git2.1.fc22.armv7hl) and update
>>>>to latest sunxi U-Boot ( e847610a41af2b @
>>>>https://github.com/jwrdegoede/u-boot-sunxi ) did not solve it, it's
>>>>still broken.
>>>>
>>>>That uboot is no longer being updated as everything is now upstream
>>in
>>>>the mainline uboot. I'd use the one shipped with Fedora or upstream
>>>>u-boot 2014.10 GA release.
>>>
>>> Okay... but it does not seem to be present at +16 sectors on the sd
>>image provided by Fedora.
>>>
>>> Honestly I would be surprised if it was since it exactly and
>>incompatibly conflicts with the Cubieboard 2 uboot also required at +16
>>sectors of the sd image.
>>
>>No, we don't provide any default uboot on the images by design because
>>the image is designed to be used on a lot more devices than just the
>>AllWinner devices.
>>
>>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#For_AllWinner_Devices
>
> Yeah.  I know it's difficult to do what you're doing.
>
> Just looking through your list, the u-boots all conflict badly.
>
> This is a terrible shame when we have a single kernel binary now.
>
> Maybe someday there will be a 'single u-boot binary'.

That will never happen. Maybe one day all the board vendors will ship
an onboard sane uboot similar to that of a PC BIOS. You don't have a
single firmware on PC, the difference is they ship it. Unfortunately
cheap dev boards don't put flash etc on board because it adds to the
cost.