Wednesday, May 5, 2021

[fedora-arm] Re: Pinebook Pro instructions for F-34

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:21 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:11 PM Jonathan Rioux <jonathanrioux@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > @PeterRobinson
> > By querying pacman, I get that package uboot-pinebookpro-bsp 1.5-8 is installed on my new machine.
> > There seems to be a 2021.4-1 package available also.
> >
> > Ok, for nvme and deep sleep; it seems it needs bsp patches for uboot to work. https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=10264
>
> That's based on a post from July 2020 where the upstream PBP was
> basic, a lot has changed since then and most of what you reference is
> irrelevant

In fact looking at the patch set we have a much newer more advanced
U-Boot, and most of the patches they reference were in fact my
patches.

> > But on the same site, it say we can put the uboot on the eMMC, should be less risks to debug than flashing on the SPI.
>
> What do you base the risk on? There's no risk of permanently bricking
> the PBP with SPI flash, there's a recovery button that allows you to
> recover over USB-C, as the person that submitted the upstream support
> for the PBP believe me I've tried that functionality a lot!
>
> > @MatthewMiller
> > Well there's work to get graphical uboot here : https://github.com/samueldr/wip-pinebook-pro/pull/13
>
> We already have most of the patches to enable display graphics

The only thing we don't already have is a logo, and there's reasons
why I've not done that yet. I'm working on proper BGRT shiny boot.
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