Hello Vagrant! Thanks for your extremely quick reply and backporting work!
On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:20:22AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 06:20:03PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Please consider shipping the package with Cubietruck support enabled. > > Cubietruck support has been merged upstream recently (post 2014.07-rc2). > ... > > Packaging a git snapshot for experimental for now would be appreciated while > > waiting for the final v2014.07 release. > > Built a package with the patches from upstream applied on v2014.04 (was a > fairly straightforward backport), and it built fine. > > I don't have a cubietruck, so if you could please test that it works: > > http://people.debian.org/~vagrant/u-boot/ I've done some very minimal testing. Installing the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin from your package on to a microSD-card and booting it shows the u-boot prompt. After setting ethaddr I could retrieve an ip via dhcp and ping my gateway. Not tried actually booting a linux kernel yet. (3.15.0-rc8 is being uploaded to the archive as we speak... so I'm waiting for it to be accepted and built on armhf.) > > > > Add something like this to debian/targets: > > armhf Cubietruck u-boot.img spl/sunxi-spl.bin > > u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin > > > > For extra bonus points also enable FEL mode, possibly like this: > > armhf Cubietruck_FEL u-boot.img spl/sunxi-spl.bin > > u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin > > I didn't enable the _FEL variant, do you definitely need that as well? I'm not planning to use it myself right now, but others might very well need it and maybe I will too in the future. I see no reason not to enable it, but maybe you know better why not to. FEL booting is for example needed for USB booting. For more info on FEL see http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL and subpages like http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot > > > > (Note: building u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin should be enough really, other > > targets just included for following the general style and someone might find > > them useful...) > > If the only file needed is u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin, and it builds fine, then > I'd be inclined to only ship that. Right now we only have MMC driver in the Debian kernel. The NAND driver is going through reviews on Linux kernel mailing list and will hopefully soon be merged (for 3.17 merge window maybe? If so, then we can probably get it into 3.16 kernel for Debian.... in ~ 2 months.) AFAIK normal booting is only available though MMC and NAND on the "A20" SoC, so right now u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin is the most convenient to use. Fwiw, u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin is just a combination of the other two so they will still be built. Also maybe we might soon need them split out for NAND booting (but I haven't looked at what's needed for NAND booting yet). I don't see a reason to not ship them (no compile time save and only minimal size difference on the binary package), but again you might know better. Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
