[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] sunxi: Pine64 fixes

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:55:53PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/09/16 16:48, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 07-09-16 17:18, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 07/09/16 16:13, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 05-09-16 02:32, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >>>> Some patches to fix the Pine64 support:
> >>>> The first two patches revert two patches that actually broke booting
> >>>> Pine64 via the boot0 blob, already in 2016.07.
> >>>> This has been discussed on IRC before, the commit messages contain
> >>>> some details on the reasons for the revert. As the intent of those
> >>>> original fixes was to help the (not yet upstream) SPL support, we don't
> >>>> loose anything as the Pine64 uses the U-Boot proper only at the moment.
> >>>>
> >>>> Patch 3/4 removes the usage of a non-existing config symbol.
> >>>> Patch 4/4 fixes a compiler warning when compiling sunxi's board.c
> >>>> with a 64-bit compiler.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please apply for the 2016.09 release to allow booting Pine64s with
> >>>> a recent U-Boot.
> >>>
> >>> I've send out a pull-req with patches 1, 3 and 4 yesterday and
> >>> this has been merged.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot! That's very helpful.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Andre.
> >>
> >> P.S. I have the SPL support with proper sunxi DRAM init mostly working,
> >> I am fighting with some bugs still (FIT loading related), but I am
> >> confident that this will be ready for the upcoming merge window.
> > 
> > Cool, so do we then still need some closed firmware bits, or is everything
> > open then ?
> 
> Everything is proper FOSS, thanks to Jens, who took the existing U-Boot
> H3 DRAM init bits and ported them to support the A64 as well.
> 
> Also we don't need any boot0img anymore, mksunxiboot works as expected.
> Appending the U-Boot proper directly to the SPL image works already, but
> leaves out the ATF and thus SMP :-(
> So I have improved SPL FIT support to load multiple images: load both
> U-Boot and ATF, but jump to ATF, which in turn drops to U-Boot.
> I chose the have the SPL in AArch64 (with a handful of AArch32
> instructions in the beginning), which greatly simplifies the build
> process. The drawback is increased code size, but I think we can cope
> with that.

Nice!  Will it all also work with FEL mode?  That's how I'm integrating
sunxi boards into my test farm.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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