[meta-freescale] u-boot fslc support for imx8

[Daiane Angolini]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:39 PM Kevin Lannen <kevin at patroness.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for pointing me to those patches Daiane.
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> It looks like those patches all apply to u-boot-imx which is at version 2017.03 still. Is anyone doing any work to bring i.MX8 support to the u-boot-fslc so that a newer u-boot version such as 2017.11 can be used?
>

I don't think there is someone working on this already.

And u-boot-fslc is 2018.07, which already supports the EVK board [1]

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=arch/arm/mach-imx/mx8m;h=9563bfdf067ad23af59b298fa8a4f729631122e8;hb=8c5d4fd0ec222701598a27b26ab7265d4cee45a3

Daiane
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> Thanks,
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> Kevin
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> From: angolini at gmail.com <angolini at gmail.com> on behalf of Daiane Angolini <daiane.list at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:55:57 AM
> To: Kevin Lannen
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> Subject: Re: [meta-freescale] u-boot fslc support for imx8
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:59 PM Kevin Lannen <kevin at patroness.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to use mender on an i.MX8M system-on-module to handle over-the-air updates. I ran into issues with the meta-fsl-bsp-release which uses the imx-uboot that is too old.
> >
> >
> > Is there work being done on upstreaming the i.MX8M bsp from meta-fsl-bsp-release into the meta-freescale layer? If so when is that likely to be available?
> >
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> There are patches on patchwork (for example [1]) but I understand they
> are still being reviewed.
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> [1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/153411/
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>
> Daiane
> >
> > I am happy to help out with some testing on it and to help out with the upstreaming if someone could give me some guidance on where to start with it. I am pretty new to Yocto so this could be good for me to learn about.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
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> >
> > Kevin Lannen
> >
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