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List:       openbsd-arm
Subject:    Re: FriendlyARM SBCs
From:       Artturi Alm <artturi.alm () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-06-30 13:45:10
Message-ID: 20160630134510.GB30127 () gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:59:59PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 08:38:03AM +0300, Artturi Alm wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:21:18PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 05:39:47PM +0300, Artturi Alm wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 02:44:29PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 04:21:39AM +0000, Karl Hammerschmidt wrote:
> > > > > > Is anyone else interested in their boards?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > They were very willing to provide extra documentation when asked,
> > > > > > including a schematic for one of their LCD drivers and an unpublished
> > > > > > datasheet for the AXP228 PMIC used on some of their boards. They also
> > > > > > offered free boards to the FreeBSD guys several months ago, but there
> > > > > > were no replies.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It would be a different SoC, though (Allwinner H3, Samsung 4412, 4418,
> > > > > > 6818). On a positive note, I haven't found any mention yet of closed
> > > > > > binaries like the ODRIOD C1. (Doesn't mean there aren't any, and I'm
> > > > > > still looking...)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > The focus is on the cubox i4pro and to a lesser extent the beaglebone
> > > > > black.  Boards that aren't included in the main u-boot repository
> > > > > are unlikely to support the bootloader which requires efi.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Wondering about how i should interpret that; i got yet another board with SoC
> > > > by Allwinner/sunxi(Pine64+) waiting at the post office for pickup, that i had
> > > > already began writing the support for(CortexA53) into armv7. Wasted effort?
> > > > 
> > > > -Artturi
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Why not finish support for the a10 first?  It still lacks an mmc driver.
> > > 
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=146352442215755&w=2
> > ^s/arm88k/armv7/ for two #includes, and you'll have a working mmc driver.
> > I was unaware what the code for looking up the pin to use for CD should
> > look like w/fdt, so i didn't include it, but the driver does work, as is.
> 
> You shouldn't claim all those capabilities without checking a register
> or fdt for them.
> 
> Card detect gpio pins can be determined via "cd-gpios" in fdt, bus-width
> can also be determined via fdt.
> 
> If you can convert it to fdt, perhaps rename it to sximmc, verify
> it works on real hardware then we could look at getting it committed.

Now that's feedback, something like what i was hoping for when i first sent
out that mail. Will fix/workout the issues noted so far by you, and Daniel
Bolgheroni, before resending.

Thanks, much appreciated:)
-Artturi

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