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

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:16:00 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 07/30/2014 10:48 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi Dennis et al,
> > 
> > As you may have heard Ian Campbell and I have become u-boot
> > custodians for sunxi boards.
> > 
> > As such we've been working hard to get sunxi support into
> > shape for the upcoming v2014.10 release.
> > 
> > Yesterday sun4i (the original A10) and sun5i (A13 / A10s)
> > support got merged to complete the existing sun7i (A20) support,
> > as well as most of the PSCI code needed to do smp + hyp mode on
> > the A20.
> > 
> > I've just send a pull-request adding AHCI, EHCI and PSCI support +
> > support for 14 new boards. You can find the branch for this here:
> > 
> > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-sunxi.git;a=shortlog
> > 
> > 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 ?
> > 
> > Dennis, can you provide a minimal patch on top of the above branch
> > needed to get things to work ootb on one board, e.g. the
> > cubietruck ?
> 
> A quick update on this, Stephen Warren (nvidia) has posted an updated
> version of your "config: introduce a generic $bootcmd", and that just
> got Acked, so hopefully that will make it into v2014.10:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/375060/
> 
> It would be nice to also sunxi converted to this upstream.
> 
> This means that you need to post a conversion patch this weekend
> the latest, otherwise it will be too late for the freeze (freezes
> in u-boot are based on the posting of v1 of a patch).
> 
> I can try to do this myself this weekend, but chances are that
> I won't have time for this.

I can try and get something together for you. I was not planning on
using 2014.10 at all. But I think that given whats going in, we should
move to it. I do need to get a Fedora 21 Test Compose out this week.
sorry for the slow response, because i was directly copied on the email
it went though an unusual path of my procmail recipes and ended up in a
folder I do not often check. as it gets mostly spam.

Dennis
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