2017-05-10 16:38 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Pablo <pa...@parobalth.org> wrote: > > > With any non-Chip-kernel you will lose NAND support. > > So you can either: > > a)patch your libre kernel > > or > > b) ignore NAND and use flash memory via usb port. > > > > For b) you will need mainline U-Boot because NextThings U-Boot fork > > supports NAND but not booting via usb. > > this sounds weird / not quite right. the R8 (aka A13, aka the A10) > should be able to use the same sunxi 3.4.104+ kernel source as i've > been using for the A20, which has the (sunxi, libre) NAND driver in > it. afaik they didn't change the NAND hardware from the A10/A20 to > the A13 to the R8 so this should be a non-issue. > > also from what i gather there's been mainline support for the > (completely different, MTD-compatible) NAND driver for quite some > time, so again, should be a non-issue. > > perhaps someone could ask on #linux-sunxi and/or their mailing list > for confirmation of the facts? Wiki says "work in progress" http://linux-sunxi.org/Mainlining_Effort http://linux-sunxi.org/NAND (Fun facts on supported NAND) http://linux-sunxi.org/MTD_Driver https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/linux-sunxi/mtd%7Csort:relevance Boris has commit access so it's probably all there since 4.7 His work and derivatives did touch a lot of NAND/MTD drivers though. Someone needs to crawl the linux kernel commits though or ask directly.
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