Am 11.12.2017 um 21:47 schrieb Andrew Wafaa:
> On 11 December 2017 at 20:23, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Am 11.12.2017 um 14:22 schrieb Alex Naumov:
>>> do we want to integrate everything what Pinebook needs to our TW
>>> images OR we would like to have separate images for it?
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to combine the Pinebook into an existing
>> image, as it likely needs its own U-Boot with matching Device Tree.
>>
>> That leaves us with two options:
>>
>> a) Derive a new separate image once all needed packages are in place. As
>> long as arm-trusted-firmware is not in Tumbleweed, such an image can
>> only live in some Contrib repository, not officially part of Tumbleweed.
>>
> 
> Is there a particular reason why arm-trusted-firmware isn't in
> Tumbleweed yet? Sorry but I missed any previous discussion on ATF.

Short summary: U-Boot is in Base:System devel project and for some
boards now has a soft dependency on ATF - builds okay but won't work.
Base:System has so few maintainers and keeps blocking and rebuilding
packages (due to core packages such as glibc), that we've already
resorted to Base:System:Staging for actually being able to test new
sub-packages and updates. So I really don't want to submit my ATF
packages to Base:System.
Additionally, Andre did not yet get his Allwinner A64/H5 support merged
into upstream ATF, so an arm-trusted-firmware package today would only
help e.g. Firefly-RK3399 and Geekbox, not Pine64 or Orange Pi PC 2.

One proposed idea was a new sub-project under "hardware" (where u-boot
or arm-trusted-firmware don't fit 100%, I'm surprised vboot was accepted
despite not being about peripherals), but so far we haven't discussed
any names or alternative locations. Opinions?

Regards,
Andreas

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