testing Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-rawhide-20150110-sda.raw.xz

[Robert Moskowitz]

I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  I 
will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.

This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root 
passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?

No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is working 
nicely.

I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took 
some time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  Of 
course with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use instead to 
give in this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?

I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest 
email?  Obviously I would like to test out video support.  I will be 
able to do some of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up 
and working.

As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to 
connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing 
until friday.

thanks for all your work.

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 14-01-15 18:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  I will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.
>
> This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?
>
> No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is working nicely.
>
> I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took some time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  Of course with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use instead to give in this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?
>
> I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest email?  Obviously I would like to test out video support.  I will be able to do some of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up and working.
>
> As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing until friday.

For the sunxi video output support to work we need to enable simplefb,
are we currently enabling any fbdev (so non kms) drivers on arm?

If so I think we should add simplefb, if not I guess we may want to wait
for simpledrm which is a kms driver using the same firmware interface
to get the framebuffer from u-boot.

Regards,

Hans

[Peter Robinson]

> > I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  I
> > will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.
> >
> > This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root
> > passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?
> >
> > No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is working
> > nicely.
> >
> > I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took some
> > time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  Of course
> > with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use instead to give in
> > this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?
> >
> > I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest email?
> > Obviously I would like to test out video support.  I will be able to do some
> > of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up and working.
> >
> > As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to
> > connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing until
> > friday.
>
> For the sunxi video output support to work we need to enable simplefb,
> are we currently enabling any fbdev (so non kms) drivers on arm?

Yes:
$ grep SIMPLE co*
config-arm-generic:CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y
config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE=m
config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD=m
> If so I think we should add simplefb, if not I guess we may want to wait
> for simpledrm which is a kms driver using the same firmware interface
> to get the framebuffer from u-boot.

I'd prefer the KMS simpledrm actually as I think it's a better way
forward, any idea when that should land?

Peter

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 15-01-15 10:00, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  I
> > > will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.
> > >
> > > This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root
> > > passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?
> > >
> > > No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is working
> > > nicely.
> > >
> > > I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took some
> > > time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  Of course
> > > with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use instead to give in
> > > this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?
> > >
> > > I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest email?
> > > Obviously I would like to test out video support.  I will be able to do some
> > > of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up and working.
> > >
> > > As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to
> > > connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing until
> > > friday.
> >
> > For the sunxi video output support to work we need to enable simplefb,
> > are we currently enabling any fbdev (so non kms) drivers on arm?
>
> Yes:
> $ grep SIMPLE co*
> config-arm-generic:CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE=y
> config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE=m
> config-armv7-generic:CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD=m

Oh, great, so that should just work then!
> > If so I think we should add simplefb, if not I guess we may want to wait
> > for simpledrm which is a kms driver using the same firmware interface
> > to get the framebuffer from u-boot.
>
> I'd prefer the KMS simpledrm actually as I think it's a better way
> forward

Agreed.
> any idea when that should land?

Soon-ish, I believe. I'll try to coordinate this with David Herrmann,
one (sunxi specific) problem is that sunxi needs simplefb / simpledrm to
claim some clocks to avoid them from getting turned off. After a LONG
discussion upstream we've finally managed to hash out the devicetree
bindings for this, and simplefb in 3.19 supports this, but I still
need to add support for it to simpledrm. Worst case we would need to
carry a kernel patch for that for 1 kernel release.

Regards,

Hans

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 16-01-15 21:33:24 UTC, Robert Brown wrote:
> I am testing 20150110 on an Allwinner A10 without serial console. I can
> report that I get some boot responses on the hdmi monitor.
> I have used u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin for Cubieboard and then Mele A1000
> (uses U-Boot 2015.01-rc3) but get:
>
> SCSI: SUNXI SCSI INIT
> AHCI PHY power up failed.
> Net: emac
> it then scans USB0 and USB1 for devices
> then:
> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
> Sun4i#
>
> and then stops. Any key strokes are not interpreted in the normal way.
> On checking there has been no logs written for the boot.
>
> Any thoughts?

If I'm not mistaken you've a Rikomagic MK802II, correct?

I've not responded to your previous mails, since getting things working
without a console is quite hard, so I was working on getting hdmi out
to work instead. I see that you've switched to using rawhide images,
which contain my hdmi out u-boot support, so now at leats you get some
messages :)

Part of the trick to get things working is to use u-boot build for the
correct board, and the correct dtb file for your board. I realize that
currently these do not exists for your specific board. But worry not,
I've a mk802-ii myself, and I've had adding support for more boards
on my list for a while. I plan to work on this this weekend. I'll get
back to you when I've a working u-boot binary and dtb fro the mk802-ii
to share with you :)

Regards,

Hans

[Robert Brown]

Thanks Hans

On 17/01/15 23:27, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16-01-15 21:33:24 UTC, Robert Brown wrote:
> > I am testing 20150110 on an Allwinner A10 without serial console. I can
> > report that I get some boot responses on the hdmi monitor.
> > I have used u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin for Cubieboard and then Mele
>
> A1000
> > (uses U-Boot 2015.01-rc3) but get:
> >
> > SCSI: SUNXI SCSI INIT
> > AHCI PHY power up failed.
> > Net: emac
> > it then scans USB0 and USB1 for devices
> > then:
> > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
> > Sun4i#
> >
> > and then stops. Any key strokes are not interpreted in the normal way.
> > On checking there has been no logs written for the boot.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> If I'm not mistaken you've a Rikomagic MK802II, correct?

You are correct the board I am testing is the Rikomagic MK802II.
> I've not responded to your previous mails, since getting things working
> without a console is quite hard, so I was working on getting hdmi out
> to work instead. I see that you've switched to using rawhide images,
> which contain my hdmi out u-boot support, so now at leats you get some
> messages :)
>
> Part of the trick to get things working is to use u-boot build for the
> correct board, and the correct dtb file for your board. I realize that
> currently these do not exists for your specific board.

I have used the profile of the Mele A1000 successfully back with kernel 
3.4.67 and I know it is also close to the Cubieboard 1. I guess with 
u-boot and dtb there will be differences but these were a good starting 
point for testing.
> But worry not,
> I've a mk802-ii myself, and I've had adding support for more boards
> on my list for a while. I plan to work on this this weekend. I'll get
> back to you when I've a working u-boot binary and dtb fro the mk802-ii
> to share with you :)

Many thanks.

Rob

[Robert Brown]

I am testing 20150110 on an Allwinner A10 without serial console. I can 
report that I get some boot responses on the hdmi monitor.
I have used u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin for Cubieboard and then Mele A1000 
(uses U-Boot 2015.01-rc3) but get:

SCSI: SUNXI SCSI INIT
AHCI PHY power up failed.
Net: emac
it then scans USB0 and USB1 for devices
then:
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Sun4i#

and then stops. Any key strokes are not interpreted in the normal way.
On checking there has been no logs written for the boot.

Any thoughts?

Rob

On 15/01/15 04:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have finally squeezed some time in to run a test on a Cubieboard2.  
> I will be doing more testing over the next couple weeks.  I hope.
>
> This rawhide minimal is not prompting me during first boot for root 
> passward, timezone, adduser.  Not added yet?
>
> No longer have to modify boot for the 'console' option.  That is 
> working nicely.
>
> I plugged in the ethernet cable a while after logging in and it took 
> some time to gain IP addressing.  I am use to ifdown eth0;ifup eth0.  
> Of course with no config file, these do not work.  What do I use 
> instead to give in this case dhcp a kick to get IP addresses?
>
> I see it comes with the 3.19 kernel.  What uboot, per Hans' lastest 
> email?  Obviously I would like to test out video support. I will be 
> able to do some of the 3.19 kernel testing once I get a few things up 
> and working.
>
> As I am away until friday, and did not bring an HDMI cable with me to 
> connect to the room TV, I will probably not be doing much else testing 
> until friday.
>
> thanks for all your work.
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