JFYI - since I last wrote here the Armbian project has provided more current images that currently work with the hardware. Images https://www.armbian.com/olimex-teres-a64/ worked and I am currently writing this message on the hardware (Olimex Teres Black) using Chromium ( 80.0.3987.149) on up-to-date Armbian Buster (10.3) - Linux teres-a64 5.4.28-sunxi64, Gnome 3.30.2 with Bulgarian translation (I contribute to the last one (-:) It is slow but it works! I hope upstreaming will continue and there will be support in Fedora for this eventually.
Kind regards: al_shopov На пн, 23.09.2019 г. в 10:23 Alexander Shopov <li...@kambanaria.org> написа: > > OK - I get it. The necessary work to upstream has not been done. I > will try to squeeze that in my schedule and move this forward. > > Additional data points from me: > 1. The Fedora's beta arm 31 do not boot at all on the device - neither > the aarch64 server ones, nor the armhfp ones. > 2. Olimex provided Ubuntu runs fine > 3. Armbian's images start booting but never finish. > https://www.armbian.com/olimex-teres-a64/ > > In order to continue I need 2 things, right? > * The device tree which is the configuration given to the kernel at > boot time describing the available hardware > * The boot firmware > > In principle both should be obtainable from my running configuration. > I will also contact Olimex that I will be trying to upstream this. > > Can I continue pinging via the mail list of my status? I would rather > not use IRC. > > Kind regards: > al_shopov > > На нд, 22.09.2019 г. в 10:05 ч. Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> написа: > > > > > I have the following device: DIY Laptop by Olimex > > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/ > > > > > > It is a 2GB A64 Cortex A53 Quad core 64-bit processor based. > > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/SPARE-PARTS/TERES-PCB1-A64/open-source-hardware > > > > We support a bunch of the AllWinner based a64 devices. > > > > > There are several options for running Linux on it, but Fedora is not > > > among them > > > https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/tree/master/SOFTWARE/A64-TERES > > > > > > I did not manage to run the latest stable Fedora on it. > > > > > > How can I help with getting Fedora on this laptop? Is there a how-to > > > for getting this to run? > > > > Basically we need upstream support for the device in U-Boot (firmware) > > and the kernel (a device tree). Olimex are historically terrible and > > contributing anything to the upstream projects and as a result are > > generally considered as "community supported" devices which ends up > > being either someone does the work to get the required bits upstream > > or someone hacks together something that works enough for them and it > > never ends up being more widely supported. > > > > All the userspace pieces should work just fine, it should even be > > possible to get accelerated open graphics via the lima driver although > > I've not had time to test that on any of the Allwinner devices I have. > > > > Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to arm-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org
