> On 27 Dec 2013, at 09:42, David Pottage <da...@chrestomanci.org> wrote: > > On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>> On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage <da...@chrestomanci.org> wrote: >>> >>> How good is the mainline linux kernel support for the Freescale iMX6 SOC? >>> >>> I currently have an Allwinner A10 based Cubieboard. In most respects it is >>> a very nice single board computer, but I find it frustrating that I am >>> stuck at Linux kernel version 3.4, and don't have access to bugfixes or new >>> features available in later versions of the kernel, so I am looking for a >>> replacement with full kernel mainline support. >> There is much improved mainline support now my A20 based cubietruck is >> running 3.13.rc4 currently > > That is very interesting. I was aware that there are efforts to get recent > kernels working on the allwinner SOC, but I thought that work was very much > at a pre-alpha stage, and almost none of the on board devices worked, so > while you could successfully boot the kernel, and see some output on the > serial port, you could not make use of the Ethernet, SATA or display. > > What has changed? which devices work, and which don't. Is it stable, or will > it crash after a few hours?
This is the 3.13.0-rc3 bootlog from my A20 cubietruck if you are interested, it's been running for about 5 days so far without problems. http://co-lo.night-shade.org.uk/~tim/cubietruck/dmesg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cc297b25-a15f-4f5e-a8b5-1fc9d03f2...@night-shade.org.uk
