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

Michal Suchanek
2014-12-22T08:32:12Z

On 20 December 2014 at 19:27, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
> 2) How to build upstream u-boot for use with linux-sunxi sunxi-3.4 kernels
> 3) Adding more boards to upstream u-boot
>
>
> 1. Switching over to upstream u-boot for the linux-sunxi project
> ================================================================
>
> Upstream u-boot has had sunxi support for a while now, and has slowly been
> gaining a lot of features over the linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi version at:
> https://github.com/linux-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/
>
> Some of the new features supported upstream are booting from usb, booting
> from
> sata (ahci) and full sun6i (A31) support including SPL support. Also
> upstream
> u-boot supports using hdmi out + an usb keyboard as u-boot console, so that
> one does not need to solder a serial console to things like hdmi tv-dongles.
>
> Upstream u-boot also has full sun8i (A23) support in the pipeline including
> SPL support.

Since we have sun8i memory support is there corresponding meminfo
which can dump the timing?

Thanks

Michal