[fedora-arm] u-boot plans for Fedora 22 ?

[Peter Robinson]

>>> I assume that we will be rebasing u-boot to the just released v2015.01
>>> for F-22? But I was wondering if there is any chance we can jump to
>>> v2015.04 ? The reason I'm asking is that things are progressing
>>> quite rapidly on the u-boot side, at least with Allwinner SoC support,
>>> I've just send a pull-req for v2015.04 with the following highlights:
>>>
>>> 1) Improved sun6i (A31) support, including support for the A31s variant
>>> and
>>>     automatic assignment of a SoC serial based MAC address for ethernet
>>> 2) Full sun8i (A23) support including DRAM controller init and SPL, so
>>> now
>>>     people can boot these boards using a full FOSS solution
>>> 3) Many improvement to the graphical console support, automatic selection
>>>     of the native mode for HDMI/DVI monitors via DDC + EDID, LCD panel
>>> support,
>>>     VGA output support
>>> 4) Preparation work for OTG controller support, together with 3) this
>>> allows
>>> using
>>>     u-boot on tablets effortlessly. The rest of the OTG support is going
>>> upstream
>>>     through the usb tree
>>>
>>> And if possible I would like to see this end up in Fedora 22 :)
>>
>>
>> An initial build of 2015.04rc3 will be in rawhide tomorrow, so please
>> test, I've enabled a few extra new devices and I'll be reviewing the
>> rest of the new devices over the next week or so.
>>
>> Please test, once it's settled down and we're fairly certain all the
>> usual suspects haven't regressed we'll move it into F-22 before beta
>> starts to get locked down.
>
>
> I noticed that -rc4 has also been build, so I've given that a test-run
> on sunxi instead:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=622061

It's not headed to F-22 just yet as there's an issues with distro boot
for a few devices (likely I've screwed up the patch rebase for
i.MX6/TI devices. Once that's confirmed as fixed I'll pull it back for
F-22 too.

> From a sunxi pov this build looks good.
>
> Talking about enabling extra boards, from a sunxi pov I would like to
> see the following enabled:

Most of those were on my todo list :)

> Common / widely available dev-boards:
>
> Linksprite_pcDuino3_Nano
> Linksprite_pcDuino3
> Linksprite_pcDuino
> Marsboard_A10
> Orangepi (*)
> Orangepi_mini (*)
>
> Common / widely used top set boxes:
> CSQ_CS908
> Mele_I7
> Mele_M5
> Mele_M9
> ba10_tv_box
> i12-tvbox
>
> Common / widely used "hdmi sticks":
> mk802_a10s
> mk802
> mk802ii
>
> This leaves some special dev boards (official allwinner devkits
> mostly), some uncommon top set boxes / hdmi sticks, and a bunch
> of tablets. I would like to eventually enable tablets, but atm
> without otg support being upstream they are not really usable yet.
>
> Once we have the tablets usable, we should probably just do
> a grep in configs/_defconfig for SUNXI and just enable all of them
> to avoid having to manually keep a list. I'm fine with switching
> to such a grep right away.

Got a patch for me to look at?

> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
> *) The Orangepi's do not have a dts upstream yet, but we do need to
> enable them eventually, might just as well do so now.