Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
On 27/12/13 09:42, David Pottage wrote: On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage 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? Latest update to rc5 has given me working USB as well. In summary I now have an A20 Cubietruck running Debian Jessie from normal repos with upstream kernel and working: USB SMP SATA Gigabit networking from the stmmac driver MMC HYP mode (ie hardware accelerated VMs) Serial console I don't have working display drivers but I haven't really tried as I don't have a monitor on the machine. -- Tim Fletcher -- 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/52c1c1dc.2030...@night-shade.org.uk
Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
> On 27 Dec 2013, at 09:42, David Pottage wrote: > > On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>> On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage 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
Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
> On 27 Dec 2013, at 09:42, David Pottage wrote: > > On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>> On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage 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? Ethernet, sata, serial and mmc all work well. There are patches just gone on to make usb work which I've not tried yet. I'm not sure about the status of the display drivers. My cubietruck runs reliably for days I've never managed to crash the kernel. I have an intel ssd on the sata port and am using it to build native kernels and qemu so a fair amount of load. The most interesting part for me is that I have working openvswitch and KVM support and have booted a hardware accelerated VM with all the VM hardware working. -- Sent from a mobile device Tim Fletcher -- 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/42731fb0-6dae-44fa-ba02-f551e97ec...@night-shade.org.uk
Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
On 26/12/13 20:02, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage 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? -- David Pottage. -- 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/52bd4b8d.5000...@chrestomanci.org
Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
> On 26 Dec 2013, at 13:14, David Pottage wrote: > >> On 25/12/13 17:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> just something for people's attention, this is a pretty damn good find >> by erix: quad-core 1ghz iMX6, it has 2gb of RAM, SATA, GbE and a full >> MiniPCIe slot (not just USB-only but *full* PCIe because the iMX6 has >> 1x PCIe). and plenty more. on the face of it it looks like the $150 >> price tag is high when compared to alternatives but the alternatives >> don't come with SATA, PCIe or 2gb of RAM. > Thanks for the link. (1) > > The price and spec looks quite similar to a Wandaboard quad (2), which is not > supprising considering they have the same Freescale iMX6 SOC. > > 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 -- Sent from a mobile device -- 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/3be74848-becc-4085-962a-2ccfd5584...@night-shade.org.uk
