[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 00/13] sunxi: upgrade to kernel 4.9 and add A64 support

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 08/07/2017 06:13 PM, Lucian Cristian wrote:
> On 07.08.2017 18:55, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>
>> On 08/06/2017 08:16 PM, Lucian Cristian wrote:
>>> On 04.08.2017 00:37, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>>> This upgrades the target to kernel 4.9 and also adds support for the
>>>> Allwinner A64 SoC. This was only tested on the pine64+ and I do not own
>>>> any older Allwinner SoC.
>>>>
>>>> Could someone please test this on an older 32 bit Allwinner SoC and
>>>> report back some results.
>>>>
>>>> Hauke Mehrtens (13):
>>>>     kernel: add some config options
>>>>     sunix: add support for kernel 4.9
>>>>     include: u-boot.mk: remove LEDE HOSTCPPFLAGS from u-boot
>>>> HOSTCPPFLAGS
>>>>     uboot-sunxi: update to version 2017.07
>>>>     uboot-sunxi: do not depend on dtc being install on host
>>>>     uboot-sunxi: revert the usage of binman
>>>>     sunxi: fix build of rtc package when module not available
>>>>     sunxi: split into cortex A8 and A7 subtarget
>>>>     arm-trusted-firmware-sunxi: add new package
>>>>     uboot-sunxi: build A64 SoC and pine64 U-Boot
>>>>     sunxi: Backport patches needed for A64
>>>>     sunxi: Backport patches from kernel 4.11 for A64
>>>>     sunxi: Add A64 support with cortex53 subtarget
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>> On LIME2 I get the attached boot log
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>> Hi Lucian,
>>
>> Thanks you for testing. Could you send me your patch you applied to add
>> LIME2 please.
>>
>> It looks like executing the init binary failed, could you try to only
>> apply my patches till "sunxi: fix build of rtc package when module not
>> available" please, I assume the subtarget split is somehow not working.
>>
>> Hauke
> 
> I just added to the image/cortex-a7.mk, and no more dts patching like on
> 4.4
> 
> define Device/sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2
>   DEVICE_TITLE:=Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2
>   DEVICE_PACKAGES:=kmod-ata-core kmod-ata-sunxi kmod-rtc-sunxi kmod-usb-hid
>   SUPPORTED_DEVICES:=olimex,a20-olinuxino-lime2
>   SUNXI_DTS:=sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2
> endef
> 
> TARGET_DEVICES += sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2
> 
> 
> and for uboot patch from here
> 
> https://github.com/lucize/source/commit/325304c62dd8f6ef1b82b94873397c31226a6f88#diff-1ab1035312dfd60272886d810ef44e7f
> 
> 
> I actually own an eMMC version, tried that too, but is the same, for
> eMMC uboot needs this
> 
> https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/add-lime2-emmc.patch
> 
> 
> I'll try without the split
> 
> Regards
> 

Hi Lucian,

The eMMC version needs an extra device tree file, could you please use
this one:
arch/arm/boot/dts/sun7i-a20-olinuxino-lime2-emmc.dts

We should probably add two device one for the normal lime2 and one
lime2-emmc.

Hauke