[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/12] tegra: nyan-big: Support chainloading and add documentation

[Thomas Hoff]

Are you asking me or Tom Warren?

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> On 27 June 2017 at 14:09, Thomas Hoff <thomashoffltd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks a bunch Simon (and everyone else who contributed)!
> >
> > I followed the instructions and was able to get uboot to boot
> successfully.
> > :D
> >
> > Now I just got to figure out how to get the kernel to boot in HYP mode.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 5:27 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >> On 7 June 2017 at 09:41, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> >> > On 06/07/2017 09:32 AM, Tom Warren wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Simon,
> >> >>
> >> >>> From: Simon Glass
> >> >
> >> > ...
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On 1 June 2017 at 07:52, Matthew Gorski <matt.gorski at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Gorski
> >> >>>> <matt.gorski at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>>
> >> >>>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> Every now and then someone wants to chain-load U-Boot on a
> >> >>>>>> Chromebook.
> >> >>>>>> The procedure is not very complicated but there are some
> oddities.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> This series updates a few things with allow U-Boot to start on
> >> >>>>>> nyan-big in this way and adds documentation on how to do it. This
> >> >>>>>> provides a central place where the procedure on different devices
> >> >>>>>> can
> >> >>>>>> be documented.
> >> >
> >> > ...
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Thank You for this Simon!  Very much appreciated!  I am going to
> >> >>>>> give
> >> >>>>> this a try later tonight and report back my personal results...
> >> >
> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> >>>> Confirmed! Chain-loading working on my nyan_big.  I appreciate this
> >> >>>> very much Simon and all who contributed.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I'd like to pull in this series. Are there any comments / reviews?
> If
> >> >>> affects both
> >> >>> tegra and rockchip.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm fine with it - I assume you'll pull it in to one of your repos
> and
> >> >> post a PR to get it into mainstream U-Boot?
> >> >> I don't have the HW to test on (my nyan-big has been shelved), but
> >> >> trust
> >> >> in Matthew's testing, and that Stephen's U-Boot test scripts will
> catch
> >> >> any
> >> >> problems, so LGTM.
> >>
> >> Thanks for looking at this.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Yes, my testing should catch most issues with any patches, although
> >> > there
> >> > are still some coverage holes:
> >> >
> >> > 1) I don't test cold boot; U-boot is always loaded over USB RCM which
> >> > may
> >> > hide bugs specific to cold booting.
> >>
> >> I tested cold bold on Nyan, but I use USB RCM also so don't normally
> >> test cold boot.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 2) I only test on a few HW platforms (beaver, dalmore, Jetson TK1,
> >> > p2371-0000, Jetson TX1)
> >>
> >> That's plenty :-)
> >>
> >> >
> >> > 3) Obviously I don't test the new features introduced by this patch;
> >> > chain-loading.
> >>
> >> It's OK I can rely on others for that so long as the changes are
> >> acceptable to the normal boot case.
>
> Is this ready to be applied at some point?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>