[fedora-arm] Update on Allwinner / sunxi u-boot support - Cubie/Cubietruck image

[Robert Brown]

On 20/12/14 20:17, Robert Brown wrote:
> Hi all
>
> On 01/09/14 23:27, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 09/01/2014 02:44 PM, Robert Brown wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> On 01/09/14 22:26, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 09/01/2014 02:17 PM, Robert Brown wrote:
>>>>> Hi Hans
>>>>> On 31/08/14 00:01, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/30/2014 10:48 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>>> So assuming that F-21 will use v2014.10 that should put us in
>>>>>>> pretty good shape wrt sunxi support. I would like to make sure
>>>>>>> that Fedora can use upstream u-boot as-is. AFAIK we still need
>>>>>>> to do some work wrt unified distro support / 
>>>>>>> config_distro_defaults.h
>>>>>>> e.g. I think we need to specify the dts file name for each board
>>>>>>> config somewhere for thinks to work ootb, correct ?
>>>>>> Good news, I've done the work for the generic-distro support stuff
>>>>>> to just work OOTB, and all the necessary changes have just landed
>>>>>> in the u-boot master branch upstream. So if we go with the v2014.10
>>>>>> release then from the sunxi pov everything which we will need will
>>>>>> just be there.
>>>>> That sounds like great news. Does that include video support? - I 
>>>>> am thinking HDMI on an Allwinner A10 MK802ii device where I cannot 
>>>>> use a serial console to support/check boot.
>>>> No sunxi u-boot video support is not yet upstream, and even if it
>>>> where then we would still need some kernel patches to use simplefb
>>>> on top of it.
>>> So how problematic might it be trying to run headless but without 
>>> the serial console to troubleshoot through the boot process?
>> That is going to be quite tricky. Your best bet would be to first get 
>> things
>> to work on another device with serial console, using an usb ethernet 
>> adapter
>> (I've no idea if the usb wifi in the mk802ii will work), and then update
>> u-boot (and only uboot) to the one for the mk802ii and move the sdcard
>> over.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
Anyone able to help out with an image successfully booting on say a 
Cubietruck so I might edit it with the a10 uboot?

Thanks

Rob