Please test U-Boot Allwinner F1C100s support

[Giulio Benetti]

Hi Andre and Jesse,

I test it today on both F1C100s and F1C200s!
Lichee Pi Nano and the Jesse’s board with F1C200s.

Best regards
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Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas

> Il giorno 31 gen 2022, alle ore 03:12, Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>> On 1/30/22 21:04, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> Hi,
>> thanks to the tireless work of Jesse, I think the basic Allwinner
>> F1C100s support for mainline U-Boot is now ready to be merged. Since I
>> don't have the hardware, can any of you who have boards please give it a
>> try on their hardware? I would really love to see some confirmations
>> before I merge it.
> 
> I really have to thank you for reviewing!
> 
>> I put a branch here:
>> https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-sunxi/-/tree/f1c100s
>> This should probably work on any F1C100s board, using the LicheePi Nano
>> defconfig. Also curious about the F1C200s (looking at you, George ;-)
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> I have tested on both. Giulio has them aswell now.
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>> This is very basic support at this point, there is no USB or SPI
>> support, and even the SD card is not usable from U-Boot proper.
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> Sd card will work if we add it to the dts.
> 
>> I am hopeful we can add MMC and SPI support still in this cycle, but I don't
>> want to hold back this series any longer, and it should be relatively
>> simple support patches.
> 
> I have patches for both spi-boot and U-Boot proper spi suport.
> I did manage to get it to find the boot device with:
> `u32 brom_call = *(u32*)(fel_stash.sp-4);` in mach-sunxi/board.c with the suggestion that Stephen said. Should I submit after it gets into master or is tomorrow fine.
> 
> Many thanks,
>    Jesse Taube
>> What should work though is booting via FEL and from SD card (the SPL
>> MMC code is in place, if I am not mistaken). Just booting it to a U-Boot
>> prompt via both methods would be a great test already. Maybe you can
>> even upload a kernel and initrd via FEL and boot it from there, using
>> $fdtcontroladdr for the DT address, for instance.
>> Any replies would be highly appreciated!
>> Many thanks,
>> Andre