[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi is no longer supported, time to switch to upstream u-boot

Emilio López
2014-12-21T20:40:23Z

Hi,

El 21/12/14 a las 17:28, Siarhei Siamashka escibi?:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:00:46 -0300
> Emilio L?pez <emilio@elopez.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> El 20/12/14 a las 15:27, Hans de Goede escibi?:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> There are 3 topics which I would like to cover in this mail:
>>>
>>> 1) Switching over to upstream u-boot for the linux-sunxi project
>> (...)
>>> Here are some example instructions on how to build upstream u-boot for
>>> the Cubietruck:
>>>
>>> git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git
>>> cd u-boot
>>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- Cubietruck_defconfig
>>> # If you want to use an upstream kernel the next steps can be skipped (*)
>>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- menuconfig
>>> # select "ARM architecture" -> "Enable workarounds for booting old
>>> kernels"
>>> # exit & save
>>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- spl/menuconfig
>>> # select "ARM architecture" -> "Enable workarounds for booting old
>>> kernels"
>>> # exit & save
>>> # skip to here if you're using an upstream kernel
>>> make -j4 CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu-
>>>
>>> And now you will have a u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin to dd to your sdcard as
>>> usual.
>> (...)
>>
>> So I thought it'd be a good idea to move over to mainline uboot, but it
>> doesn't seem to be working at all on Cubietruck. When applying power to
>> the board, all I get is
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2015.01-rc3-00163-gd8bec60 (Dec 21 2014 - 16:43:41)
>> DRAM:Timeout initialising DRAM
>>
>> resetting ...
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2015.01-rc3-00163-gd8bec60 (Dec 21 2014 - 16:43:41)
>> DRAM:Timeout initialising DRAM
>>
>> resetting ...
>>
>> ...ad infinitum.
>>
>> The hardware itself is fine, the NAND bootloader runs OK and I used the
>> board with an old uboot-sunxi some days back. Any ideas on what may be
>> going on?
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> First of all, please ensure that there is no obvious misconfiguration.
> For example, whether you have really configured u-boot for Cubietruck.

Sorry for the noise, I messed up and was using the Cubieboard config
instead of the Cubietruck one >.<

Seems to work fine other than this warning:

Error: dwmac.1c50000 address ab:cd:ef:ab:cd:ef illegal value

Cheers!

Emilio