Re: Volunteer for "Add FFS support to U-Boot"

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Sounds great!

> On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:52 AM, berte <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey Jared, thanks for your quick response :-)
> 
> At the moment, I added ffsv1/v2 into Kconfig file also I'll separate source code a bit later. 
> On the other hand, I can add whole variants into u-boot, however my main port strategy is  ffsv1/v2 but I'm open to suggestions :-)
> 
> Btw, I can create github repo for this task, what do you think about that?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> --berte.
> 
> 18.02.2018, 15:41, "Jared McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>:
>> Looks like you’re on the right path. Do you have a plan for dealing with different UFS variants (FFSv1, FFSv2, LFS, etc)?
>> 
>>>  On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:21 AM, berte <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  Hi Jared,
>>> 
>>>  I made some changes for u-boot however I'm not sure whatever I'm right or wrong way.
>>> 
>>>  Few question about source:
>>>  - I guess ufs alignment changes by architecture but I removed that macro in alloc/dealloc functions. Maybe I can replace with u-boot specific alignment function?
>>>  - Also DEV_STRATEGY macro no make sense to me and I commented out that.
>>> 
>>>  I'm still continue with fs_type .read but you can find my early work patch file as an attachment.
>>> 
>>>  Cheers,
>>>  Behzat
>>> 
>>>  16.02.2018, 00:13, "Jared McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>:
>>>>  Perfect! Good luck!
>>>> 
>>>>>   On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:06 PM, berte <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>   I've already compile uboot master branch for orange pi win, currently I'm working on ffs filesystem port for uboot.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   I've some obstacles but still proceeding if stuck with it than I'll ping you back :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Cheers,
>>>>>   --berte.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   15.02.2018, 23:58, "Jared McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>:
>>>>>>   Aarch64 should be fine here on the Orange Pi Win, but be aware that building U-Boot for sun50i family boards is a bit more complicated than others due to the dependency on ARM Trusted Framework.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   There is a U-Boot framework in pkgsrc (currently based on 2017.11 release) that you may want to use as a starting point. Creating a package for your board will be simple:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils
>>>>>>    $ cp -r u-boot-pine64 u-boot-orangepi-win
>>>>>>    $ cd u-boot-orangepi-win
>>>>>>    $ vi DESCR
>>>>>>    (Change last line of description to match your board name)
>>>>>>    $ vi Makefile
>>>>>>    (Change UBOOT_TARGET to orangepi-win, UBOOT_CONFIG to orangepi_win_defconfig, remove PKGREVISION)
>>>>>>    $ vi PLIST
>>>>>>    (Change share/u-boot/pine64 to share/u-boot/orangepi-win)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   That should give you a working u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Cheers,
>>>>>>   Jared
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    On Feb 15, 2018, at 4:46 PM, berte <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    I've raspberry pi (v1), orange pi zero and orange pi win. So I can quickly change architecture if aarch64 not suitable.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    15.02.2018, 23:42, "Jared McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>:
>>>>>>>>    What board are you using?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     On Feb 15, 2018, at 3:31 PM, berte <behzaterte%yandex.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     Hi Jared,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     Thanks for your support.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     I'll start with u-boot master branch and also I want to compile that for aarch64, is it okay for you?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>     -- berte.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>     15.02.2018, 20:05, "Jared McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>:
>>>>>>>>>>     Hi berte --
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>     Do you have any specific questions in mind?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>     Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>     Jared
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>     On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, berte wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>      Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>      I want to work for this title so could you please guide me about that ?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>      Cheers,
>>>>>>>>>>>      --berte.
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