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<apritzel>
jernej: MasterR3C0RD: junari: I got my A523 U-Boot series to work: 32 patches ;-)
<apritzel>
I will need a day or two for the final polishes and testing (incl. regression testing on H6 and H616 boards), but will then publish it
<apritzel>
the DRAM support is two patches (jernej's work incl. LPDDR4, and then junari's DDR3 support on top), so it should be easy to update with what you have now
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<junari>
Great. When you do, I can build a manjaro image from the mainline patches for the x96qpro+. It will be a good replacement for opizero3 as a cheap arm server
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<apritzel>
I was wondering if we should publish universal firmware images for boards (basically u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin: so SPL, TF-A, U-Boot, DT), then people can plug in *any* arm64 userland they like
<Jookia>
I've thought about doing that for an imx6 board and I think that's a good idea, but also providing a kernel might be good too
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<Jookia>
So you can just pick a somewhat arbitrary rootfs and use it
<apritzel>
yes, I guess at least initially fancy kernels would be needed as well, although this goes into distro-specific territory then
<maz>
at least this would allow anyone to pick their favourite installer and run with it.
<apritzel>
I wonder if we could piggy back on some U-Boot CI somehow, although the official one just includes some dummy TF-A, IIRC, just to make it build
<smaeul>
apritzel: yes, this is something that has been sorely missing for chips with good mainline support where EFI installers (or EFI disk images) should Just Work
<smaeul>
it would also be ideal to produce official SPI NOR/NAND flash images for boards with dedicated firmware storage; that would require deciding on some flash layout for those devices, which few (if any) boards have now
<smaeul>
an additional nice-to-have would be a sunxi-fel command to flash the SPI NOR/NAND or eMMC boot partition (either directly or through scripting U-Boot) so there's a "blessed" path from zero to EBBR compliance
<apritzel>
I had once a firmware image that would present a U-Boot menu (on serial and HDMI, where supported), allowing to flash that very same image to SPI NOR or eMMC boot partition
<apritzel>
sunxi-fel can already flash SPI NOR
<apritzel>
and there was someone in here like a few months ago working on MMC support for sunxi-fel
<smaeul>
ah, good to know!
<MasterR3C0RD>
Lightly related: does the A523 still use the OR2K, or does the RISC-V supersede it?
<smaeul>
I would hope the RISC-V core fully supersedes the AR100
<apritzel>
the manual suggests so, but as jernej figures: the good ol' AR100 is still around ;-)
<smaeul>
I know some TF-A platforms require build-time configuration, but at least for sunxi it should be trivial to have official TF-A builds for each release tag. but maybe there would be a problem with ARM hosting them?
<smaeul>
for crust I can set up some CI, or you can just grab the Debian package ;-)
<apritzel>
I think the common solution to the hosting problem is to just pick them from the CI artefacts storage?
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