Please test U-Boot Allwinner F1C100s support

[Giulio Benetti]

Hi All,

I've tried several times on both F1C100s and F1C200s, maybe I'm doing 
something wrong but it doesn't work :-/

I burn sd-card with:
# sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=1k seek=8

I've triple-checked that the file has been written there by dumping the 
sd-card and I see it's written at 0x2000, so 8K offset, like the mangoPI 
image for example. But no uart output.

Am I doing something wrong?

Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas

On 31/01/22 11:47, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> 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
> —-
> Giulio Benetti
> Benetti Engineering sas
> 
>> Il giorno 31 gen 2022, alle ore 03:12, Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> 
>>
>>> 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 ;-)
>>
>> I have tested on both. Giulio has them aswell now.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>