[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Bug fixes, sun4i and sun5i support and network improvements

Ian Campbell
2014-07-07T15:13:13Z

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.