* Ricardo Salveti <[email protected]> [2016-05-21 16:50]: > u-boot 2016.05 already includes support for Dragonboard410c (96boards > CE compatible), just missing packaging support. Please see the > attached patch for the required changes to make it supported. > > The patch also includes a packaging patch that fixes the distro > bootcmd support, and also some minor fixes for extlinux and pxeboot > support (which I'm also forwarding upstream).
I'm not Debian's u-boot maintainer but I have some interest in Debian on this board. I have some questions/comments: First of all, please split the upstream fixed in 3 patches and submit them upstream. I haven't seen them there yet. I definitely agree with changing the boot order. I cannot comment about the other changes. The other comments are related to the packaging: I believe on armhf and arm64, the u-boot source builds different binary packages for the different packages. You could probably create something like a u-boot-qcom package with the DragonBoard support. (Vagrant can confirm) My bigger question is around Debian support: the boot loader on this device requires boot images to be in a specific format made with Qcom's "skeles" tools. They are currently not packages in Debian. Is the ELF file useful, i.e. have you found a way to boot that directly? Or do we need to package the skeles tools and create the dt.img and a bootable .img file? -- Martin Michlmayr HPE Linux, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
