17:11 <Consolatis> I tried enabling the video console for U-Boot mainline (Odroid C2) [1] and to my surprise it just works. Including simple_fb for linux kernel early boot messages. Now I am getting greeted by 4 happy penguins on boot :)

17:12 <Consolatis> Is there a reason it has only been enabled for libretech-cc but not for C2?

17:12 <Consolatis> [1] https://gist.github.com/Consolatis/b2b52b5766f57b2ef2d47c62ab88d0ad

17:12 <Consolatis> The long term goal would be to use grub-efi but it seems USB for keyboard input is still missing in U-Boot mainline. Is this just a case of enabling it via .config as well?

17:13 <xdarklight> Consolatis: if you send a patch for the video config to https://groups.io/g/u-boot-amlogic then I'm sure narmstrong will happily take it :)

17:14 <xdarklight> Consolatis: RE USB: I believe the USB PHY driver for GXBB is still missing in u-boot

17:15 <xdarklight> you can try porting it from Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/phy/amlogic/phy-meson8b-usb2.c

17:17 <xdarklight> for example this is the result of the USB PHY driver for GXL (S905X, not compatible with GXBB / S905 non-X) which was ported from Linux https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/drivers/phy/meson-gxl-usb2.c to u-boot: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/drivers/phy/meson-gxl-usb2.c

17:17 <Consolatis> xdarklight, I currently don't have a uart adapter available but i could work around that by using the u-boot netconsole i guess. i'll have a look at the usb driver. thanks for the links :)

17:19 <Consolatis> xdarklight, RE video console patch: I am not sure if all the changes are required to enable the console. i just used make menuconfig and those CONFIG_VIDEO_BPP* were enabled by default

17:20 <Consolatis> but i don't see them in configs/libretech-cc_defconfig

17:21 <xdarklight> Consolatis: I haven't done any u-boot development yet, so better wait for someone else to give you advice on that topic. if you get no reply here you can always send the patch as "RFC" (request for comments)

17:22 <Consolatis> will do. thanks for your time :)

18:01 <Consolatis> I had a look at the diff of the Linux and U-Boot GXL USB driver and the drivers themselves (including meson8b-usb2). I fear this is a bit out of my comfort zone. I don't know enough about the PHY internals of either Linux or U-Boot to feel comfortable even trying to port the meson8b-usb2 driver.

18:31 <cottsay> xdarklight: narmstrong: any chance one of you could take a moment to update the wiki? Looks like the last update was in June.

18:36 <cottsay> I really appreciate the kernel mainlining progress section and the feature matrix - it's a concise and well-formatted way to track progress.

18:51 <xdarklight> cottsay: depending on the weather tomorrow I can update it ;)

18:58 <cottsay> xdarklight: Much appreciated! You're the best!

21:36 <hexdump0815> xdarklight: here is the output of the command you asked me to run on my mxq box: https://pastebin.com/raw/TPGVAUcZ

21:38 <hexdump0815> xdarklight: looks like it does not give the result you expect - anything else i should run on it? i'm currently running 5.1.5 on it - shall i built a newer kernel first?

21:43 <hexdump0815> btw. is anyone working on fixing the hanging panfrost driver on load on gxm/s912? last i tried with 5.3.0-rc2 it was still hard freezing the kernel