[ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
For whoever is interested. Maybe it's possible to port Slackware to the A20. Luke Leighton is already producing some prototypes. I've asked on the arm-netbook list if anybody is interested in seeing Slackware running on it. If that rings any bells, please give a shout. I might buy one myself if/when the device is usable. My budget is limited as I'm out ot work. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Antony Antony" Date: Jul 19, 2013 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) To: this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian. -antony -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:35 From: Hans de Goede To: linux-su...@googlegroups.com, Fedora ARM , Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support Hi All, I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images, with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project: http://linux-sunxi.org/ Besides all the goodies from Fedora-19, this release also contains the following new items on the Allwinner / sunxi front: -Support for the new dual core A20 soc (tested with cubieboard2), this is based on forward porting the core machine code + various drivers from allwinners 3.3 kernel source dump to the sunxi-3.4 sources. The following has been ported / is supported: -uarts -mmc controllers -ehci and ohci usb controllers (usb controllers 1 and 2, controller 0 is an otg controller and is not supported yet. -video output block (hdmi, vga, lcd, composite out) -i2c controllers -axp pmic including cpu voltage scaling -rtc -sound: analog in/out, hdmi audio, spdif out (spdif untested) -ethernet controller (emac) -sata controller Note any functional blocks in the SOC which are not explictly listed as supported above are not supported atm -Support for a couple of new boards (38 boards in total now) You can download it here: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz sha1sum: a179afafd77c26c7022392d2fa72e3fd221dd33a It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work. See the README for a list of currently supported boards. Known Issues: -Many boards don't have an rtc (A10 and A20 have a builtin one), or at least no battery backup for it, resulting in the date + time being wrong. -If the date is of by more then a couple of months, "yum update" won't work because certificate validation fails for the https connection yum tries to make. So if yum fails to get its repodata first check (and fix) your date -The regular (host not otg) usb-port on A10s based boards can be a bit quirky. It is best to plug in a hub even when using only one device, otherwise the device may not be recognized. If this happens, after adding a hub, often a power-cycle is needed too. -The wifi chip on the Auxtek-T004 hdmi-stick is unsupported atm Enjoy, Hans And to make sure everyone reads the README, let me print it here in full: Fedora 19 ARM for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 devices README - Quickstart guide 1) Insert an sdcard, note any data on the card will be destroyed! 2) Make sure the card is not mounted, run "mount" and if the card shows up in the output umount its partitions 3) Write the img file to the card, ie as root do: xzcat Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz > /dev/mmcblk0 sync 4) The card is not yet ready for use! Since the A10 u-boot is board specific, the image comes without any uboot install, follow the next steps to install the right u-boot for your board 5) Remove the card, and re-insert it. The uboot partition should get automatically mounted, if not mount it manually, 6) As root (or through sudo) run: /select-board.sh, ie: sudo /run/media/hans/uboot/select-board.sh If you've dialog installed the select-board.sh script will prompt for your board. If you don't have dialog installed, it will print the list of supported boards. Lookup your board and re-run the script with the shortname for your board as argument, ie: sudo /run/media/hans/uboot/select-board.sh mk802 7) umount the uboot and rootfs partitions, ie: umount /run/media/hans/uboot umount /run/media/hans/rootfs 8) Your sdcard is now ready for use 9) *Before* powering up your A10 device connect it to an hdmi or dvi monitor 10) When first booting from the sdcard inserted Fedora will automatically
Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
My new image builder for the xzpad700 (as soon as I've time to sync it) will prepare images for all the hardware that the fedora currently supports (including the new A20 socs). as a matter of fact I\m using their bootloader and their kernels until I get round to building my own kernel. Incidently my image builder will let you deploy any distro root filesystem tarball ... but you might need a bit of manual for non slackware root tarballs. Regards David Da: Ottavio Caruso A: ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 19 Luglio 2013 21:15 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) For whoever is interested. Maybe it's possible to port Slackware to the A20. Luke Leighton is already producing some prototypes. I've asked on the arm-netbook list if anybody is interested in seeing Slackware running on it. If that rings any bells, please give a shout. I might buy one myself if/when the device is usable. My budget is limited as I'm out ot work. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Antony Antony" Date: Jul 19, 2013 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) To: this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian. -antony -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:35 From: Hans de Goede To: linux-su...@googlegroups.com, Fedora ARM , Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support Hi All, I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images, with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project: http://linux-sunxi.org/ Besides all the goodies from Fedora-19, this release also contains the following new items on the Allwinner / sunxi front: -Support for the new dual core A20 soc (tested with cubieboard2), this is based on forward porting the core machine code + various drivers from allwinners 3.3 kernel source dump to the sunxi-3.4 sources. The following has been ported / is supported: -uarts -mmc controllers -ehci and ohci usb controllers (usb controllers 1 and 2, controller 0 is an otg controller and is not supported yet. -video output block (hdmi, vga, lcd, composite out) -i2c controllers -axp pmic including cpu voltage scaling -rtc -sound: analog in/out, hdmi audio, spdif out (spdif untested) -ethernet controller (emac) -sata controller Note any functional blocks in the SOC which are not explictly listed as supported above are not supported atm -Support for a couple of new boards (38 boards in total now) You can download it here: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz sha1sum: a179afafd77c26c7022392d2fa72e3fd221dd33a It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work. See the README for a list of currently supported boards. Known Issues: -Many boards don't have an rtc (A10 and A20 have a builtin one), or at least no battery backup for it, resulting in the date + time being wrong. -If the date is of by more then a couple of months, "yum update" won't work because certificate validation fails for the https connection yum tries to make. So if yum fails to get its repodata first check (and fix) your date -The regular (host not otg) usb-port on A10s based boards can be a bit quirky. It is best to plug in a hub even when using only one device, otherwise the device may not be recognized. If this happens, after adding a hub, often a power-cycle is needed too. -The wifi chip on the Auxtek-T004 hdmi-stick is unsupported atm Enjoy, Hans And to make sure everyone reads the README, let me print it here in full: Fedora 19 ARM for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 devices README - Quickstart guide 1) Insert an sdcard, note any data on the card will be destroyed! 2) Make sure the card is not mounted, run "mount" and if the card shows up in the output umount its partitions 3) Write the img file to the card, ie as root do: xzcat Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz > /dev/mmcblk0 sync 4) The card is not yet ready for use! Since the A10 u-boot is board specific, the image comes without any uboot install, follow the next steps to install the right u-boot for your board 5) Remove the card, and re-insert
Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd)
I got round to syncing my new image builder: http://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackwarearm/people/louigi600/ Touchscreen is still not working on my device ... but if your touchscreen is on the usb bus chances are that it will work. Have fun David Da: Davide A: Slackware ARM port Inviato: Sabato 20 Luglio 2013 7:50 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) My new image builder for the xzpad700 (as soon as I've time to sync it) will prepare images for all the hardware that the fedora currently supports (including the new A20 socs). as a matter of fact I\m using their bootloader and their kernels until I get round to building my own kernel. Incidently my image builder will let you deploy any distro root filesystem tarball ... but you might need a bit of manual for non slackware root tarballs. Regards David Da: Ottavio Caruso A: ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 19 Luglio 2013 21:15 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) For whoever is interested. Maybe it's possible to port Slackware to the A20. Luke Leighton is already producing some prototypes. I've asked on the arm-netbook list if anybody is interested in seeing Slackware running on it. If that rings any bells, please give a shout. I might buy one myself if/when the device is usable. My budget is limited as I'm out ot work. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Antony Antony" Date: Jul 19, 2013 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support (fwd) To: this is an interesting news item, though my prefeence is a debian. -antony -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 18:12:35 From: Hans de Goede To: linux-su...@googlegroups.com, Fedora ARM , Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Announcing Fedora 19 ARM remix for Allwinner SOCs release 1, now with A20 support Hi All, I'm very happy to announce the first release (r1) of my Fedora 19 ARM remix images for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 based devices. This release is based on the official Fedora 19 Final for ARM images, with u-boot and kernel(s) from the linux-sunxi project: http://linux-sunxi.org/ Besides all the goodies from Fedora-19, this release also contains the following new items on the Allwinner / sunxi front: -Support for the new dual core A20 soc (tested with cubieboard2), this is based on forward porting the core machine code + various drivers from allwinners 3.3 kernel source dump to the sunxi-3.4 sources. The following has been ported / is supported: -uarts -mmc controllers -ehci and ohci usb controllers (usb controllers 1 and 2, controller 0 is an otg controller and is not supported yet. -video output block (hdmi, vga, lcd, composite out) -i2c controllers -axp pmic including cpu voltage scaling -rtc -sound: analog in/out, hdmi audio, spdif out (spdif untested) -ethernet controller (emac) -sata controller Note any functional blocks in the SOC which are not explictly listed as supported above are not supported atm -Support for a couple of new boards (38 boards in total now) You can download it here: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/contrib-images/hansg/Fedora-19-a10-armhfp-r1.img.xz sha1sum: a179afafd77c26c7022392d2fa72e3fd221dd33a It is important to read the README, the image standard comes without u-boot pre-loaded since u-boot is board specific. The image includes a user-friendly simple script to install the right u-boot for your board, but if you simply xzcat the image to an sdcard, and then boot your device with the sdcard, things will *not* work. See the README for a list of currently supported boards. Known Issues: -Many boards don't have an rtc (A10 and A20 have a builtin one), or at least no battery backup for it, resulting in the date + time being wrong. -If the date is of by more then a couple of months, "yum update" won't work because certificate validation fails for the https connection yum tries to make. So if yum fails to get its repodata first check (and fix) your date -The regular (host not otg) usb-port on A10s based boards can be a bit quirky. It is best to plug in a hub even when using only one device, otherwise the device may not be recognized. If this happens, after adding a hub, often a power-cycle is needed too. -The wifi chip on the Auxtek-T004 hdmi-stick is unsupported atm Enjoy, Hans And to make sure everyone reads the README, let me print it here in full: Fedora 19 ARM for Allwinner A10, A10s, A13 and A20 devices README - Quickstart guide 1) Insert an sdcard, note any da
