[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 13/13] sunxi: Add A64 support with cortex53 subtarget

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 08/29/2017 09:22 AM, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> On 29-08-17, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03-08-17, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>> This adds initial support for the A64 Allwinner SoC to LEDE.
>>> It will be build in the new cortexa53 subtarget.
>>>
>>> Currently it only supports the pine64 and the image is able to boot on
>>> this SoC.
>>
>> Thanks for the patches!
>>
>> I tested them on a pine64+ 1GB but it does not seem to work: the green NIC
>> LED keeps blinking on and off and the device stays unreachable from the
>> network.  If I force the other end to use 100baseTx-FD, the green NIC LED
>> stays on instead of blinking, but the device is still unreachable.
> 
> I just found this comment in the DTS:
> 
>   /* TODO: Camera, Ethernet PHY, touchscreen, etc. */
> 
> So, the non-working NIC seems to be expected: this should be more apparent
> in the patch descriptions to avoid surprises :)
> 
> (I totally understand that this patch series is about preliminary support
> for the board)

Yes that is currently not supported, I will mention it more clearly in
the commit message.

I plan to backport Ethernet support later, but it takes some time, it is
supported with mainline kernel 4.13.

Hauke

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