On 9 Oct 2017, at 10:00, Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl wrote:
From: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 22:41:50 -0600
On 27 September 2017 at 21:35, Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk@gmx.de wrote:
Unfortunately installing U-Boot on an SD card for the Firefly-RK3399 is not trivial.
I could not get U-Boot running with SPL. So I ended up using the Rockchip miniloader.
Adding a README hopefully will give other users an easier start.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk@gmx.de
board/rockchip/firefly_rk3399/README | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 board/rockchip/firefly_rk3399/README
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Hmm,
Do we really want to push people in this direction, using propriatary, closed-source binaries?
I would rather see people discouraged from going down that road as well… or to document this as a deprecated approach only.
The "pure" U-Boot approach that is currently documented works just fine. The only problem is that the firefly-rk3399 by default boots from eMMC. And the first-stage bootloader only recognizes SD-cards with the propriatary loader. So the trick is to wipe the firmware stored in eMMC or replace it with U-Boot.
Would you be willing to submit a patch with documentation for this?
Thanks, Philipp.