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Re: Cubieboard4, u-boot, flash-kernel



On 2015-12-29, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 12:15 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 02:45:33PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> > I'm trying to get a Cubieboard4 board booting.
>> > 
>> > It looks like the Cubieboard4 has support in mainline linux since
>> at
>> > least 4.2 (so should work with jessie-backports), but I can't find
>> a
>> > u-boot that will boot it...
...
>> Generic A80 support (Clocks, PIO, RSB, UART, MMC) is available in
>> mainline u-boot since v2015.07, but you are of course right - a
>> CC-A80-specific config has indeed not yet entered the mainline
>> u-boot git, so adding the flash-kernel stanza was probably a bit
>> premature.
>
> I'd expect that a pretty trivial modification to
>  configs/Merrii_A80_Optimus_defconfig (to switch the
>  CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE option over) would result in something
> useful, but I've not tried it (need to setup my CB4, apply h/sink etc).

I gave this a quick try, but it wouldn't build an SPL image, and the
image it did built didn't work with whatever SPL was already
on-board. I may just not have the right offsets, though.


> Posting on linux-sunxi and/or the u-boot list might result in further
> insights.

Haven't followed up there yet, other than a few queries in IRC...


live well,
  vagrant

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