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

[Thomas Hoff]

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.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
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