> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 11:42:03 +1100 > From: Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 12:20:57PM -0400, k...@intricatesoftware.com wrote: > > Various rockchip u-boot 2019.10rc4 aarch64 improvements: > > * u-boot.itb is included in the all target for rockpro64 and > > firefly-rk3399 so remove duplicate make for it. > > * Build rock64-rk3328, except exclude idbloader.img which is broken. > > * Install u-boot-spl-dtb.bin and mkimage for rock64, rockpro64 and > > firefly-rk3399 so that idbloader.img can be created using rkbin TPL > > layer. > > * Provide a script to make idbloader.img from rkbin's TPL layer. > > * For rockpro64 backport PCIe support from 5.3 dtb. > > * For rock64 backport most 4.20 dtb components and additional bug > > fixes. > > > > For rockpro64, I no longer need to have an updated dtb installed > > in the i partition for PCIe to work. Although I am using the > > rkbin TPL layer because the u-boot one doesn't recognize half > > of my memory (other versions of this board dont have this > > problem). > > > > For rock64 the dtb updates corrects the clock bindings so an > > updated dtb is not needed in the i partition as well. However, > > u-boot's TPL layer isn't working yet so the following steps > > are needed to create a usable idbloader.img on a uSD for > > install with miniroot66.fs: > > > > /usr/local/libexec/u-boot/mkidbloader-rkbin rock64-rk3328 > > dd if=miniroot66.fs of=/dev/<uSD> bs=1m > > dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/<uSD> bs=512 seek=64 conv=sync > > dd if=/usr/local/share/u-boot/rock64-rk3328/u-boot.itb \ > > of=/dev/<uSD> bs=512 seek=16384 conv=sync > > > > One of the downsides of installing mkimage is the removal of > > PKG_ARCH=*, but we get better support for both rock64 and > > rockpro64 for where rkbin is still needed. I'm not sure how > > well firefly works with the the u-boot TPL layer so it may > > benefit from the ability to build idbloader.img with the > > rkbin TPL layer as well. > > > > Thoughts? > > Dropping PKG_ARCH=* isn't something we should do in my opinion. For > example arm package snapshots seem to be made every few months and with > U-Boot 2019.10 final planned for Monday US time there wouldn't be a > package available for arm in time for the final release build. > > I think for now you should drop the rk3328/mkimage parts and keep the > rockpro64 dtb change.
Simon South just posted two patches to the U-Boot mailing list that apparently fixes ro rock64 issues. That removes the need to use the propriatary Rockchip loader in favour of U-Boot TPL.
