Cubieboard2 with custom bootloader

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 22:42 +0200, Mihai Carabas wrote:
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>> > I should mention, btw, that enabling the cache does make a huge
>> > difference.  For a wandboard with caches disabled, loading and
>> > launching the kernel takes 8 or 9 seconds, with dcache enabled it's
>> > less than 1 second.
>> >
>> Ian thank you for your answers. Do you have anywhere the patches for
>> u-boot
>> if we want to compile it from sources?
>>
>> Mihai
>
> The patches I'm referring to are part of the checked-in u-boot ports.
>  They used to be in beaglebone and rpi at least, but the beaglebone
> stuff appears to currently be in a state of flux.  The rpi port still
> has the patches, though.  The patches aren't rpi-specific, I've been
> using them on all arm u-boot stuff (I have uncommited changes for
> wandboard and other imx6 systems, and we use this stuff at $work too).
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/u-boot-rpi/files/patch-common_cmd__elf.c?view=co
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/u-boot-rpi/files/patch-common_cmd__boot.c?view=co
>
> The last version of u-boot I know for sure those two patches apply
> cleanly to was 2016.01; I haven't looked at any u-boot releases since
> then.

I haven't dropped them in u-boot-master, since it pulls from my tree
where these patches are applied to allow wider sharing of a
known-good-for-freebsd tree.

Warner