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

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 03:40:20 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 21-03-15 15:21, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 06-03-15 23:50, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>> 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
> > 
> >  From a sunxi pov this build looks good.
> 
> I have to take this back, it seems that this build is appending:
> 
> " console=ttyS0,115200"
> 
> To the kernel cmdline, I've just double-checked and this is not upstream
> behavior, is this being done by Fedora specific patches ?
> 
> This breaks kernel output and systemd status messages output on
> tty0 / the hdmi output, resulting in a blackscreen until gdm
> starts.
> 
> As discussed a while back, the proper way to do is set
> stdout-path in the devicetree to the serial console, then the
> kernel will automatically make it a second console, next to tty0
> and output messages on both, and systemd will output messages
> and spawn gettys on both too.
> 
> Upstream u-boot is already setting stdout-path for all sunxi
> devices, so from a sunxi pov the appending of " console=ttyS0,115200"
> is a regression. If this is done for some other boards, it would
> be better to either patch those boards dts files to set stdout-path,
> or u-boot to set stdout-path rather then appending " console=ttyS0,115200"
> and breaking video output. If you can tell me which specific boards
> need work here I can whip up a patch (for others to test).

I suspect that no other boards are doing so, I was not aware that you had 
gotten that upstream yet. we will need to drop the patch that automatically 
adds the console from u-boot. every other system will need to be looked at.

Dennis