Re: [linux-sunxi] Backporting simplefb support to 3.16 kernel
On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 12:52:01PM +0100, Jens Thiele wrote:
> Does that mean there is a realistic chance to have Olimex A20-Olinuxino
> Micro+simplefb support in jessie (maybe not A20-OLinuXino-LIME2)?
General support for the LIME2 in Jessie is on the way. Kernel support
for it is in the linux 3.16.7-ckt7-1 package which will hopefully
enter Jessie this weekend; installer support has already migrated to
Jessie, just u-boot is still an open topic - I have backported
support for the LIME2 to u-boot 2014.10+dfsg1-3, but that is
currently only available in unstable.
I will update the wiki accordingly as soon as the kernel migration is
finished.
> That would be really great (somehow didn't expect that, but I didn't
> look at the diff from 3.16). Last time I looked u-boot in testing/jessie
> was to old, too. Did someone look at that, too?
See above - u-boot 2014.10+dfsg1-3 in unstable has backported system
support for the LIME2, but it does not contain a backport of the
simplefb infrastructure bits, so for using simplefb, you would still
need a newer upstream u-boot in any case.
> 4.2 U-Boot
>
> To boot the Linux kernel the boot loader "Das U-Boot" is used. U-Boot's state
> is similar to the kernel's. Debian's U-Boot package can't be used, yet. Also
> thanks to the sunxi community it became possible to use a U-Boot version very
> close to upstream^20.
Why "very close to upstream"? AFAICS current upstream u-boot supports
everything you need, doesn't it?
Regards,
Karsten
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