[PATCH] sunxi: add board documentation

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Dec 17 17:37:08 CET 2021


Hi Andre,

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 at 18:03, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Add some long overdue instructions for building and installing U-Boot on
> Allwinner SoC based boards.
> This describes the building process, including TF-A and crust, plus
> installation to SD card, eMMC and SPI flash, both from Linux and U-Boot
> itself. Also describe FEL booting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> please have a look whether this makes sense. Feel free to just try something,
> and point out ambiguities or missing bits. For missing topics, please
> send a follow-up patch ;-)
>
> Also this is quite long, shall this be split up in two (or more) files?
>
> This is what rst.ninjs.org made of it, if you prefer to read it formatted:
> https://paste.c-net.org/PleasantNeedy
>
> Cheers,
> Andre
>
>  doc/board/allwinner/index.rst |   9 +
>  doc/board/allwinner/sunxi.rst | 304 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 313 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 doc/board/allwinner/index.rst
>  create mode 100644 doc/board/allwinner/sunxi.rst

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

I agree that a follow-on patch to remove the duplicated files would be
helpful, but this patch is a big step forward on its own.

It would be interesting to convert sunxi to use binman.

Regards,
Simon


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