Quoting Vagrant Cascadian (2021-01-08 02:44:20) > On 2021-01-05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > recent releases of u-boot support integrating on 64bit ARM targets with > > a firmware for the System Control Processor (SCP) - a microprocessor > > similar to the Management Engine on amd64. On Allwinner SoC the SCP is > > an AR100 processor and a free licensed firmware - Crust - exists which > > requires gcc targeting OpenRISC 1000 (or1k). > > FWIW, I should also note that, while recent versions of u-boot > (~2020.01) work without this SCP firmware, it fails to build without > specifying the SCP firmware with the upstream defaults; long-term the > codepaths without it may bitrot... so I would definitely appreciate > getting this or1k cross-compilers enabled in Debian!
Yeah - it was your complaints at the upstream u-boot irc channel that made be take action after having considered crust for more than a year. So thank you for popping up at places I also hang out and inspire doing more work :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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