[fedora-arm] U-Boot?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Oct 14 19:04:55 UTC 2011


On 10/14/2011 07:05 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 10:54 AM, Chris Tyler wrote:
>> Note that the GuruPlug ships with a broken uboot, which uses the wrong
>> machine identifier. To use a mainline kernel, you must munge the kernel
>> machine ID or update the GuruPlug's uboot.
>
> Ooh, good to know.
>
>> The phrase "the kernel we're working with" caught my eye. Which kernel
>> are we talking about?
>
> I'm specifically thinking of David Marlin's kernel as referenced here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/Fedora_ARM_Kernels
>
>> (I've heard but have not verified that the Kirkwood and OMAP patch sets
>> used to be pretty much mutually-exclusive; I haven't tried to build a
>> unified kernel and hope this has been fixed).
>
> Yuck.  I know David has been endeavoring to make his changes mesh easily
> with additional parties adding their own pet board to the SRPM.  Most of
> our systems are omap and tegra based so we haven't seriously looked into
> kirkwood support.  If somebody wants to add kirkwood support they should
> bear in mind your warning about the broken uboot.

I'm pretty sure that Kirkwood support required for the SheevaPlug has 
been in mainline since at least 2.6.35, possibly earlier. Whether OMAP 
patches break this, I don't know.

In fact, Kirkwood is one of the few SoCs that has complete support for 
all of the extras, too, in the mainline kernel, too (e.g. crypto engine).

Gordan


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