Re: [fedora-arm] Update on Allwinner / sunxi u-boot support - Cubie/Cubietruck image

Hi all On 01/09/14 23:27, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/01/2014 02:44 PM, Robert Brown wrote: >> Hi >> On 01/09/14 22:26, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 09/01/2014 02:17 PM, Robert Brown wrote: >>>> Hi Hans >>>> On 31/08/14 00:01, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> On 07/30/2014 10:48 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>>> So assuming that F-21 will use v2014.10 that should put us in >>>>>> pretty good shape wrt sunxi support. I would like to make sure >>>>>> that Fedora can use upstream u-boot as-is. AFAIK we still need >>>>>> to do some work wrt unified distro support / >>>>>> config_distro_defaults.h >>>>>> e.g. I think we need to specify the dts file name for each board >>>>>> config somewhere for thinks to work ootb, correct ? >>>>> Good news, I've done the work for the generic-distro support stuff >>>>> to just work OOTB, and all the necessary changes have just landed >>>>> in the u-boot master branch upstream. So if we go with the v2014.10 >>>>> release then from the sunxi pov everything which we will need will >>>>> just be there. >>>> That sounds like great news. Does that include video support? - I >>>> am thinking HDMI on an Allwinner A10 MK802ii device where I cannot >>>> use a serial console to support/check boot. >>> No sunxi u-boot video support is not yet upstream, and even if it >>> where then we would still need some kernel patches to use simplefb >>> on top of it. >> So how problematic might it be trying to run headless but without >> the serial console to troubleshoot through the boot process? > That is going to be quite tricky. Your best bet would be to first get > things > to work on another device with serial console, using an usb ethernet > adapter > (I've no idea if the usb wifi in the mk802ii will work), and then update > u-boot (and only uboot) to the one for the mk802ii and move the sdcard > over. > > Regards, > > Hans > >