U-Boot v2018.07 released, our contributions

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BayLibre has continued contribution to the open-source community as seen with this new version of U-Boot v2018.07, released on 27th July 2018.

This release permits booting over an USB Mass Storage (USB Stick or Hard Drive) with EFI on the Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC board !

With U-Boot 2018.07, you can download the nighly Debian-Installer or OpenSuse  TumbleTweed, copy U-boot to a blank SDCard, copy the installer to an USB, plug USB and SDCard, boot and install !

Here is a summary of our contributions:

Amlogic SoC family:

  • Add support for the USB PHY and Controller on the Meson GXL (S905X, S905D) SoC based on the Linux version done by Martin Blumenstingl
  • Add Analog-to-Digital (ADC) driver based on the Linux version done by Martin Blumenstingl
  • Add Amlogic Reset Controller
  • Add ADC cli command
  • Sync DT with Linux 4.17

Misc :

  • Add “bulk” commands for Reset and Clocks + tests
  • Add dwc3-of-simple USB DWC3 simple Glue driver based on the Linux version
  • Add support for any number of PHYs for the DWC3 controller

Linux Kernel 4.18 released, our contributions

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BayLibre has continued our contribution to the Linux community as seen with this new version of Linux Kernel 4.18, released on Sunday, 12th August 2018.  An excellent summary of this release can be found at KernelNewbies.

Here is a summary of our contributions, organized by SoC family and a summary graph of contributions by developer.

Amlogic SoC family:

  • Multiple fixups/enhancements for the AXG A113D SoC (I2C, TDM)
  • Add write support for NVMEM
  • MMC/SDCard Fixups
  • Boot fixup with SCPI

Ti DaVinci SoC Family:

  • Fixup for NAND support
  • Fixups for RemoteProc support
  • Fixups for AEMIF support

Misc:

  • Lots of cleanup and some code removal