On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 09:38:43PM -0400, Kurt Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 10:12 +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:28:56PM -0400, Kurt Miller wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've been trying to get the rock64 to work with u-boot 2019.10rc4
> > > with the help of solene@ and a motivated user with this board.
> > > (I don't have one to test with). The Rock64 is close to fully
> > > working with 2019.10rc4 u-boot but is experiencing a similar issue
> > > to what NetBSD has reported on the u-boot list.
> > > 
> > > https://marc.info/?t=156888926600002&r=1&w=2
> > > 
> > > When booting miniroot66.fs with the u-boot TPL the install
> > > eventually fails with a kernel panic as seen below on
> > > solene@'s board. Using rkbin TPL the install completes
> > > and the resulting system appears stable in light testing.
> > > 
> > > I have attached the diffs I'm using to the ports
> > > sysutils/arm-trusted-firmware and sysutils/u-boot.
> > > I modified the u-boot port to build idbloader with both
> > > u-boot TPL and rkbin TPL.
> >
> > It isn't clear what the license on rkbin is.  It is binary only but does
> > it allow distribution?
> 
> Yea, there's no license at all and no matter how much digging
> I do, I can't find one.
> 
> Mostly I was trying to point out that the rock64 board is
> having the same issues that NetBSD is having with the TPL
> layer in the forthcoming 2019.10 release and providing a
> way for people with the Rock64 board to verify it.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's much I can do to get the TPL layer
> fixed but it would be great if the 2019.10 release could
> replace the 2017.09-rockchip-ayufan firmware that most
> people are using and doesn't work all that well on OpenBSD.
> 
> Although I think the sysutils/arm-trusted-firmware change
> could go in now, since the BL31 layer for rk3328 has been
> confirmed to work by two people and it removes one more
> binary blob for that board.

Yes, I think you should commit the arm-trusted-firmware change.

For U-Boot I would like to get rockpro64 support without breaking the
other targets.  I will see if updating linaro gcc to a newer release
gives smaller codesize for the am335x SPL.

Perhaps we wait for rock64 support in U-Boot to work without depending
on rkbin.

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