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

Hans de Goede
2014-07-08T07:47:57Z

Hi,

On 07/07/2014 05:13 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, ok.

> 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...)

Interesting (mostly for emmc devices, of which there are a few sunxi ones
now).

I'm still not sold on having 2 entries for each and every board though.

Have you looked at extending the SPL buildsys bits, which in essence do
2 builds, to do 3 builds for sunxi, so that we simply always build
both SPL flavors?

Regards,

Hans