[fedora-arm] u-boot plans for Fedora 22 ?

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 21-03-15 15:32, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> I assume that we will be rebasing u-boot to the just released v2015.01
>>>> for F-22? But I was wondering if there is any chance we can jump to
>>>> v2015.04 ? The reason I'm asking is that things are progressing
>>>> quite rapidly on the u-boot side, at least with Allwinner SoC support,
>>>> I've just send a pull-req for v2015.04 with the following highlights:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Improved sun6i (A31) support, including support for the A31s variant
>>>> and
>>>>      automatic assignment of a SoC serial based MAC address for ethernet
>>>> 2) Full sun8i (A23) support including DRAM controller init and SPL, so
>>>> now
>>>>      people can boot these boards using a full FOSS solution
>>>> 3) Many improvement to the graphical console support, automatic selection
>>>>      of the native mode for HDMI/DVI monitors via DDC + EDID, LCD panel
>>>> support,
>>>>      VGA output support
>>>> 4) Preparation work for OTG controller support, together with 3) this
>>>> allows
>>>> using
>>>>      u-boot on tablets effortlessly. The rest of the OTG support is going
>>>> upstream
>>>>      through the usb tree
>>>>
>>>> And if possible I would like to see this end up in Fedora 22 :)
>>>
>>>
>>> An initial build of 2015.04rc3 will be in rawhide tomorrow, so please
>>> test, I've enabled a few extra new devices and I'll be reviewing the
>>> rest of the new devices over the next week or so.
>>>
>>> Please test, once it's settled down and we're fairly certain all the
>>> usual suspects haven't regressed we'll move it into F-22 before beta
>>> starts to get locked down.
>>
>>
>> I noticed that -rc4 has also been build, so I've given that a test-run
>> on sunxi instead:
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=622061
>
> It's not headed to F-22 just yet as there's an issues with distro boot
> for a few devices (likely I've screwed up the patch rebase for
> i.MX6/TI devices. Once that's confirmed as fixed I'll pull it back for
> F-22 too.
>
>>  From a sunxi pov this build looks good.
>>
>> Talking about enabling extra boards, from a sunxi pov I would like to
>> see the following enabled:
>
> Most of those were on my todo list :)
>
>> Common / widely available dev-boards:
>>
>> Linksprite_pcDuino3_Nano
>> Linksprite_pcDuino3
>> Linksprite_pcDuino
>> Marsboard_A10
>> Orangepi (*)
>> Orangepi_mini (*)
>>
>> Common / widely used top set boxes:
>> CSQ_CS908
>> Mele_I7
>> Mele_M5
>> Mele_M9
>> ba10_tv_box
>> i12-tvbox
>>
>> Common / widely used "hdmi sticks":
>> mk802_a10s
>> mk802
>> mk802ii
>>
>> This leaves some special dev boards (official allwinner devkits
>> mostly), some uncommon top set boxes / hdmi sticks, and a bunch
>> of tablets. I would like to eventually enable tablets, but atm
>> without otg support being upstream they are not really usable yet.
>>
>> Once we have the tablets usable, we should probably just do
>> a grep in configs/_defconfig for SUNXI and just enable all of them
>> to avoid having to manually keep a list. I'm fine with switching
>> to such a grep right away.
>
> Got a patch for me to look at?

Nope I've not looked at the Fedora u-boot specfile at all,
but generating the list is simple, this command will output
all the sunxi defconfig files:

grep -rl ARCH_SUNXI configs

Regards,

Hans