[fedora-arm] f23 arm request - uboot through video port

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 06:05 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi Troy,
>> Well I'll suggest rather than coming out all guns blazing an email
>> that would have been more constructive would have been "Hey, I'd like
>> to see X better supported in F-23, this is what I believe the status
>> to be how can I help improve that?"
>>
>
> My apologies.  I did not mean to come over that way, but in re-reading
> what I wrote, it appears I did.  So, starting over, but with your context.
>
> Currently the only way I know of finding out the status, and work being
> done on u-boot is from this mailling list and this wiki page.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/u-boot_syslinux

That's long been done and is a core support requirement for all Fedora devices.

> Is there another place with the status, or is it ok to ask here from
> time to time?

Ask here, or on #fedora-arm IRC on freenode. The later is probably
easier for a quick reply

>> So now that we're over the above this is our plans for both F-23, and
>> how to move them back to F-22, open to suggestions and even better
>> patches to help out :-)
>>
>> 1) a means of more easily upgrade u-boot to a newer version in a
>> released image. We had most of this in place for F-22, we're actively
>> planning to push an improved 2015.04 release to F-22, the currently
>> pending blocker to that is the serial/HDMI rant you had above :-)
>> 2) decent HDMI/usb console support with serial fall back, a bunch of
>> SoCs need patches to enable this, they need to be upstreamable
>> 3) more work on distro defaults upstream. We're actively working with
>> upstream maintainers to enable this.
>> 4) enabling work to ensure that new devices with upstream support
>> "just work" without our interaction
>>
>> Believe me we're no lover of a serial only world but the fact is that
>> decent support for a lot of devices has only just landed and there is
>> two of us working on u-boot support in Fedora in 100% of our own time.
>> We're trying to support new devices as fully as we can but sometimes
>> other requirements come and roadtrain us. If you can assist with
>> patches believe me we're happy to accept them, and provide
>> constructive feedback if we feel there's issues. We hang out here on
>> this list and #fedora-arm
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> What can I do to help?
> I'm a good packager, but the current package already looks good.
> I can certainly test things.  I've very good at debuging
> code/configurations.  My only limitation is that I currently only own a
> Pi, beaglebone black, and pcduino3 Nano, with a Pi2 (hopefully) on the way.

So testing different use cases is very helpful, hoping to get 2015.07
releases done and moving forward RSN, I'll  send emails here for wider
testing in rawhide as they land and also how to test these in F-22
too. Coding to help fix features on devices or use cases you care
about is also even more useful :-)

I've got a build failure I'm debugging at the moment on 2015.07rc2 but
once that lands I'll look forward to your feedback!

Peter