03:17 <tokyovigilante> Raqbit: I don't see any significant differences in those logs up until the jump from the SPL to TF-A, and the blocker there previously was getting the right IRQ to talk to the PMIC over, but that should be long resolved

06:16 <Raqbit> tokyovigilante: At least for now it all seems to work swimmingly when booting via the SD card, and I got it booting into an Alpine Linux initramfs. I will have to see if I can get it booting over FEL later

10:34 <tokyovigilante> so... there's noting I hate more than single line if statements without braces, how much rage am I likely to attract from the kernel devs?

11:07 <karlp> you have to follow the style of the project you're working on, for better or worse...

11:34 <tokyovigilante> [ 2.161503] ALSA device list:

11:34 <tokyovigilante> [ 2.161506] #0: H616 Audio Codec

11:34 <tokyovigilante> outstanding

15:25 <Raqbit> Nice!

23:41 <apritzel> tokyovigilante: checkpatch.pl must come back clean, otherwise you will be asked to change the formatting

23:41 <apritzel> it's not so much about what's better or worse - you can debate forever about these things - but it's about to have the *same* consistent style for the whole kernel

23:42 <apritzel> they *really* helps reading kernel code more quickly - after you get used to it

23:50 <farhan> apritzel: I am newbie. If i got a board with already dts. Can I use that file to generate dtb and then use it?

23:52 <apritzel> farhan: where does the dts file come from? If it's provided by the vendor, it's typically from the Allwinner BSP, and you *cannot* use this with a mainline kernel

23:53 <apritzel> otherwise: if the board uses a supported SoC, and only supported support chips (like the AXP PMICs and WiFi chips), all you would need is indeed a .dts file

23:55 <apritzel> tokyovigilante: macromorgan: Raqbit: there is something off with your U-Boot: however you load and boot your kernel, the U-Boot output should always be the same

23:57 <apritzel> and the only difference between FEL and SD card should be the line telling you where it's going to load the rest from ("Trying to boot from FEL" vs. "Trying to boot from MMC1")

23:58 <apritzel> you should try to narrow this down between the different versions you use: agree on a single tree, just build U-Boot the TF-A, and also check which compilers you use

23:58 <farhan> apritzel: no not by the vendor. Someone dumped it on github from his board with same configuration. I thought i would ask before going down this route.

23:59 <apritzel> tokyovigilante: macromorgan: Raqbit: for troubleshooting and for comparing different binaries: use the broken down FEL boot (spl ... load ... load ... reset64), and swap binaries until you find the culprit