From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:13:13 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Bug fixes, sun4i and sun5i support and network improvements In-Reply-To: <53BA9858.7020502@redhat.com> References: <1402306622-18485-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1404674776.4003.11.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <53BA9858.7020502@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1404745993.30778.40.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 14:53 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/06/2014 09:26 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 11:36 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> adds sun4i and sun5i support > > > > Does this series omit FEL mode support or did you just not include it > > for the new boards? > > I just did not include it. > > > I think in general we want a _FEL variant for every board except the > > minority which don't have an OTG port etc. > > I'm not sold on this idea. Normal users (and distros) will never use > the FEL variants, and a developer needing a FEL build can just as > easily edit boards.cfg, instead of us having 2 lines there for each > and every sunxi board (of which there are *a lot*. Actually Debian is providing the FEL binaries for CT in its u-boot packages already. I was planning to provide a script to automatically install Debian starting from a bare board booted in FEL mode from a host system and getting the installer to put the bootloader on the MMC etc etc. (I'm a long way from actually having this working...) Ian.