[U-Boot] [ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[U-Boot] [ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[Andreas Färber]

Hello,

I have just made an initial v0.1 release of my meson-tools project:

https://github.com/afaerber/meson-tools

In particular the amlbootsig tool has successfully been used in the
openSUSE Open Build Service instance to create bootable images for the
Amlogic S905 based Hardkernel Odroid-C2, using mainline U-Boot as bl33.

Usage and known limitations are described in its README.md.

Regards,
Andreas

-- 
SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton
HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)

[ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[Andreas Färber]

Hello,

I have just made an initial v0.1 release of my meson-tools project:

https://github.com/afaerber/meson-tools

In particular the amlbootsig tool has successfully been used in the
openSUSE Open Build Service instance to create bootable images for the
Amlogic S905 based Hardkernel Odroid-C2, using mainline U-Boot as bl33.

Usage and known limitations are described in its README.md.

Regards,
Andreas

-- 
SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany
GF: Felix Imend?rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton
HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg)

[ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[Oleg]

> Hello,
>
> I have just made an initial v0.1 release of my meson-tools project:
>
> https://github.com/afaerber/meson-tools
>
> In particular the amlbootsig tool has successfully been used in the
> openSUSE Open Build Service instance to create bootable images for the
> Amlogic S905 based Hardkernel Odroid-C2, using mainline U-Boot as bl33.
>
> Usage and known limitations are described in its README.md.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
Your tool is only to create a version of u-boot for Odroid C2
or can try to use for all devices of the platform s905 ?

[ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[Andreas Färber]

Hello Oleg,

Am 08.05.2017 um 15:15 schrieb Oleg:
>> I have just made an initial v0.1 release of my meson-tools project:
>>
>> https://github.com/afaerber/meson-tools
>>
>> In particular the amlbootsig tool has successfully been used in the
>> openSUSE Open Build Service instance to create bootable images for the
>> Amlogic S905 based Hardkernel Odroid-C2, using mainline U-Boot as bl33.
>>
>> Usage and known limitations are described in its README.md.
>>
> Your tool is only to create a version of u-boot for Odroid C2
> or can try to use for all devices of the platform s905 ?

Please see the README.md at the above link. :)

amlbootsig has been tested with Odroid-C2 and by now NanoPi-K2, so it's
not limited to the Odroid-C2. However it won't work with "all" devices,
as my tool has less features (no encryption support) and may have bugs
for lack of a public description of the format.

As recently explained to someone with an S912 TV Box, feedback on
whether it produces the expected results for other devices as well is
appreciated. Some safety precautions were described in that mail:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-May/003433.html

Regards,
Andreas

P.S. If you have comments or questions, please keep me CC'ed so that I
notice. Thanks.

-- 
SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany
GF: Felix Imend?rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton
HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg)

[ANN] meson-tools v0.1 released

[Oleg]

> Please see the README.md at the above link. :)
>
> amlbootsig has been tested with Odroid-C2 and by now NanoPi-K2, so it's
> not limited to the Odroid-C2. However it won't work with "all" devices,
> as my tool has less features (no encryption support) and may have bugs
> for lack of a public description of the format.
>
> As recently explained to someone with an S912 TV Box, feedback on
> whether it produces the expected results for other devices as well is
> appreciated. Some safety precautions were described in that mail:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2017-May/003433.html
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
> P.S. If you have comments or questions, please keep me CC'ed so that I
> notice. Thanks.
>
You are interested in testing the possibility of launching S912 (s905x)
using independently collected (from source) variants of u-boot ?
I have a Tronsmart s912 with a connected UART.
I checked on it the start-up of harvested from sources u-boot.
After making not much changes to the source code of u-boot from Khadas 
VIM ,
the resulting file u-boot.bin.sd.bin normally runs from SD card
(and allows you to start the system from removable media).
Before a test I made a full backup of the eMMC
and additionally copied the first 4 MB of eMMC (which contains a regular 
u-boot).
You can write, what should I check ?