[PATCH 00/11] ARM: add initial support for Rockchip boards

[Heiko Stübner]

Hi Beniamino,


very cool that you're working on getting a better boot loader for us :-)

Am Dienstag, 29. April 2014, 23:13:14 schrieb Beniamino Galvani:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:05:58AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:54:53PM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:26:27AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > > Hi Beniamino,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:30:33AM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> > > > > This series adds an initial support for Rockchip SoCs and has been
> > > > > tested on a Radxa Rock board, on which I'm able to load a kernel
> > > > > from
> > > > > the network and boot it [1].
> > > > > 
> > > > > At the moment Barebox must be chainloaded from the Rockchip binary
> > > > > bootloader which performs low-level initializations and loads
> > > > > Barebox
> > > > > from the "boot" partition on the NAND.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Barebox should be written using the same procedure used for kernels:
> > > > > it must be prepared with the mkimage tool and then written with
> > > > > rkflashkit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > There is a u-boot code released by Rockchip [2] which probably
> > > > > includes all the low-level initializations but I'm not brave enough
> > > > > to
> > > > > try it.

hehe, that goes for me too :-)


> > BTW I noticed the upstream radxa rock dts file does not have a board
> > specific compatible. I added this in my patch, but this should be done
> > upstream.
> 
> CC'ing Heiko, who is the Linux Rockchip maintainer.

Until now I didn't give it much thought, but according to usage-model.txt the 
board-specific compatible is a required property. So we'll need to add it to 
the board dts in the kernel too.

So you could send a patch, or I'll prepare one in the next days.


Heiko