2016-02-15 16:59 GMT+01:00 Lubomir Rintel <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 15:18 +0100, Jérôme Fenal wrote: >> 2016-02-15 13:02 GMT+01:00 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>: >> > Hi Lubomir, >> >> Hi all, >> >> > > Seems like there's not much that's left to be done for stock >> > > Fedora to >> > > boot on Raspberry Pi 2 successfully [1]. >> > >> > There's not much, I've >> > >> > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308355 >> > > >> > > One bit that notably prevents us from spinning an image that >> > > would boot >> > > on RPi2 board solely from the Fedora packages is the VC4 >> > > firmware. >> > >> > Yes, it's one, there's a bunch of others, the kernel now should be >> > mostly upstream, it's on my list (it's very long) to enable this >> > and >> > test it. We also need to be able to use u-boot so that we can do >> > standard kernel upgrades/rollbacks as well as deal with the fact >> > the >> > firmware needs a VFAT partition without having to have the >> > confusion >> > and QA of twice the amount of images produced >> >> What do we miss, besides this BZ, to get Fedora running on the >> Rappberry Pi 2? > > u-boot fixes are needed to build/run the board. All likely > to be included in 2016/03 upstream: > > * http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-February/245385.html > To fix the uboot-tools build > > * 89ca1000 ARM: rpi: set fdt_high in the default environment > This, to load fdt where VMSPLIT_3G kernel can reach it. > > * http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-February/245402.html > Alike, for the ramdisk. > > That is the bare minimim to get the system to boot. > There's a couple of known flaws and likely some unknown: > > * Some drivers are missing: http://elinux.org/RPi_Upstreaming > > * The ethernet MAC address is random. Fix headed for 4.6. > > * VC4 is not bound to the device tree. And the configfs interface to > the overlays is not yet here. This could possibly be worked around by > an userspace tool that would generate a desired dtb from fragments. > > * Not sure if simplefb works. It certainly does not for my DSI display. > Didn't try with newer firmware or HDMI, will look into that. > >> With also Eric Anholt's new VC4 driver[1], that should get us closer >> and closer from a fully-supportable Pi 2. >> >> If needed, I just received a bunch of Pi 2 (5 of them), that I'll be >> happy to use to test, either within Red Hat premises, or from my >> personal internet connection. > > I'll try to share an image you could run tomorrow.
Thank you, I'll try it later this week-end, my week is almost full. -- Jérôme Fenal _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
