u-boot-2014.01 and freebsd arm

[Kevin Lo]

On 2014/02/22 03:13, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Just an FYI, I've updated locally to u-boot version 2014.01 for my
> wandboards.  It works fine without needing any patches except for the
> options you want to add/change in configs/wandboard.h, with one caveat:
> u-boot now enables the caches and our kernel startup code isn't coping
> well with that right now.  I'm going to look into fixing that, but you
> can get around it for now by adding the CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF option or
> just putting "dcache flush;dcache off;" in your boot command in the
> u-boot env.
>
> I haven't tried the newer u-boot on my other boards yet (BBW, rpi).
>
> If anyone feels like doing a bit of work on u-boot, I think it would be
> great if we could get FFS support into u-boot so that we can boot from a
> disk image that doesn't need an msdos partition just to hold ubldr.
> There is a patchset for this that no longer applies cleanly (at least to
> 2014.01, I haven't tried earlier versions).  It's available at
> http://www.springdaemons.com/stas/u-boot-ffs.patch if anyone wants to
> give it a shot.
>
> The work to be done is really two tasks:  re-integrate the changes with
> the latest u-boot code, and then get the u-boot folks to incorporate
> those changes upstream.  It doesn't have to be the same person tackling
> both problems, but the second part will be easier if the first part is
> done with an eye to making the changes "fit" in their world -- adopt
> their mechanisms and coding style as much as possible.

It seems that there is a license issue preventing integration of
UFS support into U-Boot's source.  See all discussion threads:
http://marc.info/?t=127792848100003&r=1&w=2

>
> -- Ian

     Kevin