[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 0/8] sunxi: initial upstreaming effort

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 05/25/2014 05:02 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> On Mon, 05 May 2014 11:52:02 +0100, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> This is my fifth attempt at an upstreamable series based upon the
>> https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi.git#sunxi tree. The
>> intention is to present a minimal starting point for upstreaming to
>> which support for other processors, peripherals, boards etc can be
>> added in the future. Therefore this has been stripped right back and
>> currently supports only sun7i processors (AKA Allwinner A20) and the
>> cubietruck board. Supported peripherals are UART, MMC and Ethernet.
>>
>> The code here is from u-boot-sunxi.git#sunxi[0] changeset based on
>> d9fe0a1e061e 3f5ff92b1503 "sunxi: add comments to pll1_para array."
>> and applies to u-boot v2014.04. It merges cleanly into current
>> mainline head.
>>
>> As of v4 the majority of the series now has at least one Ack or
>> Reviewed-by. In summary:
>>  
>>   +  sunxi: add sun7i clocks and timer support.
>> mT   sunxi: add sun7i pinmux and gpio support
>> M    sunxi: add sun7i dram setup support
>> M +  sunxi: add sun7i cpu, board and start of day support
>> MT   sunxi: add support for Cubietruck booting in FEL mode
>> M    sunxi: add gmac Ethernet support
>> M    sunxi: mmc support
>> M    sunxi: non-FEL SPL boot support for sun7i
>>
>> M==Reviewed-by Marek Vasut.
>> m==Acked-by Marek Vasut.
>> T==Reviewed-by Tom Rini
>> +==Minor changes in v5
>>
>> Changes in v5:
>>  - Resynced with u-boot-sunxi.git 3f5ff92b1503 "sunxi: add comments to
>>    pll1_para array.". Dropped "Reduce DMA burst length" patch which is
>>    being handled elsewhere. Otherwise see individual commit logs for
>>    details.
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>>  - Resynced with u-boot-sunxi.git d9fe0a1e061e which pulled lots of fixes
>>    for Marek's review comments.
>>
>> Global changes in v3:
>>  - Rebased onto v2014.04 and resynced with u-boot-sunxi.git c89867dca2e9
>>  - Improved commit messages
>>  - Updated lists of contributors
>>  - Added some CCs
>>  - Lots of cleanup based on review comments.
>>
>> Global changes in v2:
>>  - Use SPDX-License-Identifier
>>  - Resync with u-boot-sunxi.git
>>  - Lot of updates to the individual patches, see the individual commit
>>    messages (checkpatch.pl fixes, magic number removal etc).
>>  - Pulled the Ethernet stuff before the MMC and non-FEL boot
>>    stuff. The MMC stuff (which non-FEL boot needs) still needs some more
>>    cleanup, but the reordering means that the initial part of the
>>    series could in principal go in.
>>
>> This series can also be found at:
>>
>>     git://gitorious.org/ijc/u-boot.git sunxi-mainlining-v5
>>
>> There is no SMP here, since that relies on the PSCI support from Marc
>> Zyngier which has yet to land in mainline. Marc has recently rebased
>> and a version based on this series can be found at:
>>
>>     git://gitorious.org/ijc/u-boot.git sunxi-mainlining-v5-smp
>>
>> I've tried to give corect credit and S-o-b based upon:
>>   git log --pretty='%aN' linux-sunxi/sunxi -- [PATHS] | sort -u
>>   git log linux-sunxi/sunxi -- [PATHS] | grep -i signed.off.by  | sort -u
>>   Manual inspection
>>
>> This will tend to over credit, since it will include folks who
>> contributed code which has since been removed as well as those who
>> contributed code which is not included in this patch set, but I think
>> it is better to be conservative and include too many rather than
>> incorrectly exclude people. Doing better than this would be IMHO too
>> hard to be worth it (e.g. git blame would prefer a recent whitespace
>> cleanup to the actual author of the code and prefer someone did code
>> motion over the original author, so it would be a massive & manual
>> process).
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi.git
>>
>>
> 
> Applied (with manual fixes to minor 'git am' conflicts on ./boards.cfg
> and ./Makefile) to u-boot-arm/master, thanks!

Thank you too. I'm really happy to see this getting into u-boot proper.
Beginner question, since this does not touch existing code, will it
still go into the 2014.07 release ?

> (now, to try and understand once more if and how this could be leveraged
> for A31 support...)

I've been working on a patch-series for adding sun4i and sun5i support,
which has been almost done for 2 weeks now, seeing Ian's part of this
effort merged surely motivates me to finish that work quickly :)

sun6i (aka A31) support unfortunately is a different story, once I've
the sun4i / sun5i support series finished, I can relatively easy
also give you a 2nd series adding the sun6i support which we have
in the u-boot-sunxi git repository (the need for which will hopefully
go away completely soon). But this support is incomplete, it needs
allwinners boot0 and boot1 binaries to boot-strap u-boot, since we
don't have dram setup code yet. With these binaries you should be
able to be able to ie boot a Linux kernel with this u-boot, but
it is not a standalone solution. Let me know if you're interested in
receiving a series with this (incomplete) support.

I've given a friend of mine an mele A1000G quad to work on the dram
setup code, I'll ping him on this.

Regards,

Hans