On 8 November 2016 at 11:13, Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08/11/16 09:44, Code Kipper wrote:
>> On 7 November 2016 at 15:29, Benjamin Henrion <zoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Chen-Yu Tsai <w...@csie.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Benjamin Henrion <zoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Benjamin Henrion <zoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is now TFTP boot support in the latest u-boot tarball, so I made
>>>>>> this recipe if you want to compile it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/zoobab/uboot-pine64
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The binary image is copied from the latest build on my laptop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If there are Pine64 owners here, I would be happy if someone could
>>>>>> test it (flash it to an SD card and try to load a kernel with a
>>>>>> dnsmasq for example).
>>>>>
>>>>> The main goal here was to add an A64 board to the Kernelci.org list of
>>>>> tested SOCs, and they required a working TFTP boot. Sadly, they don't
>>>>> support booting from SD cards, which is the most used case for tablet
>>>>> SOCs.
>> Hi Benjamin,
>> I had a play with this briefly last night setting the environmental
>> variables by hand. What I did keep on seeing was "Retry count
>> exceeded" when TFTPing the Image file. Is this something you see?, I
>
> Can you try to define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A008585 in the defconfig
> and recompile?
> I think the A64 has an arch timer bug, but it doesn't show every time
> for me [1].
>
> Also if you are in for testing, can you try to dd:
> http://andrep.de/a64/pine64_firmware-20161102.img
> to sector 16 of the SD card?
> # dd if=pine64_firmware-20161102.img of=/dev/sdx bs=8k seek=1
> (and replacing sdx with your SD card reader)
> This is a proper boot0-less SPL firmware image.
> This directory also contains other gems you might find useful ;-)
Thanks...I'll make up a card image with your little treats. I've yet
to confirm that I've built the kernel correctly yet. Does this look
familiar?
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- defconfig
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- LOADADDR=0x40008000 Image dtbs
Cheers,
CK
>
> Cheers,
> Andre.
>
> [1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-November/271836.html
>
>> do see quite a few timeouts with my other boards but they always
>> succeed in getting the image. I did eventually manage to load the
>> kernel plus dtb but it didn't boot. Can you paste what is in your
>> boot.cmd /uEnv.txt files?
>> Thanks,
>> CK
>>>>
>>>> Well, kernelci.org is about automated build and boot testing. There's
>>>> nothing automated about having to pull out an SD card to put a new
>>>> kernel on it. :)
>>>
>>> It can be automated via an SD card switcher:
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxinternals.org/blog/2014/06/04/a-microsd-card-remote-switcher/
>>> http://hackaday.com/2014/06/08/the-in-circuit-sd-card-switch/
>>>
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