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SoPine SPI booting - ayufan - 01-16-2018
I pushed quite recent u-boot with sunxi and apritzel patches that allows to enable SD/eMMC/USB/PXE booting of SoPine.
This new u-boot can also be put on SPI to allow booting without SD/eMMC.
You can find sources and releases here: https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/bootloader-build/releases.
RE: SoPine SPI booting - hexalyn - 01-23-2018
Great ! Looking forward to the clusterboard for PXE booted sopine clusters at home
@ayufan: As I lack knowledge related to kernel build and Linux builds for the SoPine, do you think it might be possible to "hack" the LinuxKit toolkit (https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit) and build SoPine compatible rootfs images instead of RPi3 images : https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/blob/master/docs/platform-rpi3.md ?
In this toolkit they use u-boot to start the RPi3 so I think we might even be able to adapt the process to boot from a ".img" image no ?
Thanks in advance
RE: SoPine SPI booting - ayufan - 01-23-2018
Maybe. But I would look for 64-bit.
RE: SoPine SPI booting - aww - 02-14-2018
So I am trying to use this SPI build with the new Sopine clusterboard and am having a ton of issues. It'll boot, and start looking to boot from dhcp, but it isn't connecting to the network(I don't even see a dhcp request come across when I tcpdump the upstream port).
It works fine when a node is in the sopine baseboard, and I am also having networking issues with all images except your minimal xenial build. Things will boot, but they won't make any network requests.
RE: SoPine SPI booting - pfeerick - 05-04-2018
(02-14-2018, 10:13 PM)aww Wrote: So I am trying to use this SPI build with the new Sopine clusterboard and am having a ton of issues. It'll boot, and start looking to boot from dhcp, but it isn't connecting to the network(I don't even see a dhcp request come across when I tcpdump the upstream port).
It works fine when a node is in the sopine baseboard, and I am also having networking issues with all images except your minimal xenial build. Things will boot, but they won't make any network requests.
I also have not been able to get the sopines to do either BOOTP or DHCP requests when in the clusterboard, but don't have a sopine baseboard to compare against. However, with the same test setup, but substituing a rock64 which will PXE boot, I see the requests come through just fine, on dnsmasq and tcpdump.
I'm trying to set up a pine64 as a DHCP+PXE master for the clusterboard. Testing for the DHCP/BOOTP requests using:
Code:
sudo tcpdump -i eth0 port 67 or port 68 -e -nRE: SoPine SPI booting - hexalyn - 05-04-2018
I have the same issue. I think it lies with the fact that there are network issues on the kernel side (as explained here : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5712) and this has not been fixed in @ayufan u-boot build for now. I don't have enough knowledge to create a pull request or make a new build.
@aww Could you replicate the network fix here maybe : https://github.com/ayufan-pine64/u-boot-sunxi/blob/master/arch/arm/dts/sun50i-a64.dtsi ?
That way we would just have to rebuild u-boot and use @ayufan's makefiles to recreate a new version working with the clusterboard ?
That would be awesome !
EDIT: It seems you already did it ! : https://github.com/andrewl3wis/u-boot-sunxi/commit/8d0976e9f40b12c4952fabc6bb093b41e5603dd7
RE: SoPine SPI booting - pfeerick - 05-04-2018
(05-04-2018, 03:35 AM)hexalyn Wrote: EDIT: It seems you already did it ! : https://github.com/andrewl3wis/u-boot-sunxi/commit/8d0976e9f40b12c4952fabc6bb093b41e5603dd7
Nice! Now just have to work out how to get it onto the sopine modules!
RE: SoPine SPI booting - hexalyn - 05-04-2018
@pfeerick : I managed to build the image using ayufan's scripts but with @aww u-boot version.
I do not have any sopine module at reach right now, could you try it ?
Here is the link to download my build : https://transfer.sh/OOvBr/u-boot-sopine-flash-spi.img.xz
It works the same as ayufan's as it was built in the same manner. Thanks !
RE: SoPine SPI booting - aww - 05-04-2018
That's my attempts to get it working. I wasn't successful, but I was trying things late at night so might of missed something.
I think the root issue is that ayafan's fork(and u-boot upstream) are currently missing the patches for realtek network timing that are in Mainline. The reason that rgmii-txid works in Armbian looks like a side affect of another patch that adds the "magic" timing numbers in that someone got from realtek.
RE: SoPine SPI booting - hexalyn - 05-04-2018
@aww I see... If I understand correctly, here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/873752/ they patch mainline u-boot with the realtek stuff.
As I have seen, every modified file in this patch has the same "pre-patch" state as the files in your modified u-boot version.
Couldn't we juste apply this patch onto your repo if this is the realtek only patch ?
Thanks