Unable to boot mainline on snow chromebook since 3.15

Doug Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Mon Sep 8 09:12:03 PDT 2014


Will,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:55:31PM +0100, Doug Anderson wrote:
>> So "simple-framebuffer" is added to the device tree here:
>>
>> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/49358/2/board/samsung/smdk5250/smdk5250.c
>>
>> That's one of the two patches to build your own U-Boot for enabling
>> simplefb.  You'll notice that's not a super official thing.  It's a
>> "DO NOT SUBMIT" patch sitting in a gerrit code review server, so I
>> wouldn't exactly call it a stable ABI that we can't break.  It's not
>> something shipping in real products and it's not even landed in a git
>> tree (I suppose maybe someone somewhere landed it, but...).
>
> I just took the uboot image linked to from the chromium.org page here:
>
>   http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/u-boot-porting-guide/using-nv-u-boot-on-the-samsung-arm-chromebook#TOC-Getting-nv-U-Boot

Ah, OK.  It's still using the "DO NOT SUBMIT" patchs, but I guess
given that there is a binary built up there by a fairly official
source...  Hrmm.  I think Olof is the one that built that.  Perhaps
he'd be willing to muck with that and see if he can grab the
regulators?

-Doug



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